Archive for April, 2010

Marketing and Finance: Like Trying to Mix Water and Oil?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

As a budding marketer, do you cringe at the thought of doing math? Are you like most others that believe that as soon as you graduate and embark on your career in marketing, you will never have to deal with numbers again? Whilst a marketing job will certainly get your creative and managerial juices flowing, [...]

Change: An opportunity to enrich your career

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Many companies talk about having a “dynamic environment” or being “fast paced“. But how true is it? In 1 year of working at RB, I can honestly say that every day is different and it seems like you’re running faster and faster. This is in terms of tasks, goals, results to deliver but also in [...]

Love going to theme parks, hate queuing for the rides?

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Hi, I’m Tom and I am a Reckitt Benckiser Campus Brand Manager. I am based at Aston University (you can read my full profile here) and since meeting RB reps at a careers fair I knew I wanted to get involved with the company. So when this role came along to work alongside RB and [...]

Social responsibility in action: Another amazing day at the brick kiln factories

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

“A child is a child first” – Jatin, Save the Children India “Impossible is a word to be found in a fool’s dictionary” – Sign in the Save the Children office I have written here previously about the site team from RB Pharmaceuticals’ emotional and inspirational visit to the brick kiln factories in India. This [...]

Corporate Responsibility … Just PR fluff?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Every FMCG company talks about corporate responsibility and community involvement but wipe away the PR fluff and you’ll find that many do very little, if not nothing at all… It’s easy for a large organisation to just donate a portion of profits to a charity organisation and call it social responsibility. But at RB, we [...]