I had two more interviews with the guys from the chocolate industry and then a couple of phone calls with Bosch. Here's my input after long hours of thinking about it.
I'm not gonna take the job in the chocolate industry. I thought the job was at one hour and a half away from me, but it actually is at two hours and a half. Making it 5 hours a day only in transportation. Meaning that I won't be able to give English classes in the evening. Meaning even less money.
Add more than 8 hours a day at work... Plus I've had a longer interview with the marketing lady - my direct boss - and she didn't have a clear job description for me. My job at Barry (as I first knew it) would have been to help them reposition and reinforce their brands - it's a funny situation, they're the leaders on their market by far, but aren't seen as the leaders. Still, my mission wasn't very clear to the marketing director - I mean I could simply have helped creating a data base with info about the market - they don't have them centralize. Plus, they're in the business to business type of market... I've looked a bit on the market for open marketing positions - most of them are at big companies who already have a brand name. What they're focussing right now is brand awareness, and making their clients loyal to their products through different fidelisation programmes.
Bosch, on the other hand, have this programme called "Graduate - something", allowing their recent employees to go and work on different missions in different countries. Which sounds like an oportunity, given that I am gonna have a one year internship at their place. Adding the fact that I know exactly what I'd be doing, which responsabilities and the real chance of getting involved in implementing the market strategy with the consequent budget and freedom. I felt like they had a sound strategy. Plus I'd be interacting with the big supermarket chains. I looked at Kraft Foods, Unilever, Nestlé - their internship marketing position require experience in dealing with the Fast Good Consummer Product goods.
I chose the latter company because after talking to both managers, I had a better input of my assignament from the power tools people. So I guess this is what I'm gonna do. It'll give me a chance to also put some money on aside and finally, finally attend some expensive specialisation courses at a Business School, here in Paris... and my parents are gonna chip in also, so on and all, I'm happy.
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