During the summer holidays Gordon from Manchester, came into
the office and did some work experience with us. He was a great asset to the
team and proved himself more than capable, helping us with research, testing
and even creating some new maths resources. Below is his account of the
week and what he learnt from his week in the 10ticks offices.
During my week of work experience at 10ticks.co.uk, I’ve been
given the chance to experience, first-hand how a company is run.
As everybody would expect, working hours normally start really
early and end late, and this is no different at 10ticks. During my week here
I’ve seen the pure commitment of the staff towards their work, one example
would be Chris. As people would know waking up early in the morning is one of
the gruelling challenges that one must overcome every morning however Chris’s
passion for his work is so great, that he manages to arrive at work at 6
o’clock in the morning, the time at which I would still be lost in my dreams
for the next morning of work.
Throughout my wonderful 8 hours of work each day, I was given lots
of different tasks, they range from simple stuff such as creating maths
worksheets to analysing and researching about the market in which 10ticks.com
works. One thing that I discovered during my research is that 10ticks is one of
many different maths education sites in the world, and that there is a lot of
competition, one of them being Mathletics (Take notice that MATHS is spelt
wrong here), which is owned Rupert Murdoch. Some people may think that 10Ticks
has no chance of going against him, but the fact is 10Ticks is in over 60% of
schools in the UK, plus many more schools worldwide, helping to increase maths
standards for more than 4.6 million students. I personally think that this is
colossal achievement for a company with just 5 members of staff.
Personally I really enjoyed my week learning how a company runs
day to day, and helping to create more maths resources that will help students
excel in maths for years to come.
Gordon.
