Work experience at 10ticks

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.