--- title: "Our Latest Recruit: Emily Schaffer" date: 2025-01-03 published: 2017-08-03 author: "jgartin" featured_image: "https://www.dacgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Our-Latest-Recruit-Emily-Schaffer.jpg" categories: - name: "Strategy" url: "/en-gb/insights/blog/strategy.md" tags: - name: "ambergreen" url: "/en-gb/tag/ambergreen.md" - name: "digital marketing" url: "/en-gb/tag/digital-marketing-2.md" - name: "recruit" url: "/en-gb/tag/recruit.md" lang: en-gb --- # Our Latest Recruit: Emily Schaffer Today we are introducing our latest recruit to the team: Emily Schaffer, who is joining us as a Marketing Assistant. **AG: Who are you?** ES: I’m the lucky new marketing assistant who managed to secure a placement for my third year of university with Ambergreen. I am originally from Musselburgh, so I’m already familiar with the beautiful city that is Edinburgh, but I’ve been away for a couple of years studying at Robert Gordon University. In my last year of school, I made the decision to move away for university so I could get the full experience and become more independent. However, homesickness was starting to get to me towards the end of my second year so I began focussing on securing a placement in Edinburgh. This is where Ambergreen came into the picture. **AG: What do you do at uni?** ES: At university, I studied Management with Marketing, which involved studying all areas of business such as HR, finance and operations, but I specialised in marketing. Obviously, marketing was my favourite area . . . not sure if I can say the same about finance. **AG: How did you get interested in digital?** ES: I got interested in digital marketing from one of the modules I did in my last semester of second year, which involved doing a blog on various areas of digital marketing. I absolutely loved this module and found it so interesting, which caused my eagerness to find a placement in digital marketing. I think digital marketing appeals to me the most because it’s so important nowadays, and you can be very creative with it. **AG: Why Ambergreen?** ES: I applied for a job at Ambergreen because I heard about the company from a connection, and it seemed it had such a friendly work culture and the perfect opportunity to learn more about digital marketing. Moving home for a year also had the added bonus of no cooking (which is probably safer for my health). **AG: Where do you see yourself in five years?** ES: In 5 years, I hope to have finished university (if I’m still trying to finish my degree in 5 years, that would be pretty worrying.) I’m also very keen to travel as much as I can before I get back to the working life. Hopefully when I do return to work, I’m able to find a job in Edinburgh with a digital marketing agency . . . maybe Ambergreen if I can convince them to take me back! **AG: What’s your favourite thing you’ve worked on so far?** ES: So far my favourite thing I’ve worked on is the [blog post I wrote on the experience economy](https://ambergreeninternetmarketing.com/blog/the-experience-economy-how-it-affects-your-online-presence/). I love writing, so this was a great task for me, and it allowed me to apply my learning at university. **AG: What are you looking forward to most working at Ambergreen?** ES: I’m really looking forward to helping out in different areas of digital marketing to find out which is my favourite, as this will enable me to understand what area I want to specialise in after university. **AG: Favourite food?** ES: My favourite food is cheeseburgers. However, considering they’re not the healthiest food, I have to restrain myself from ordering them all the time . . . which is unfortunate. **AG: Special talent?** ES: My special talent is not being able to go to the beach without falling face first in the water (or at least I like to think of it as a talent and not me being a massive klutz.) **AG: Surprising secret?** ES: My surprising secret (which isn’t really a secret) is that I’m the grandchild of a child refugee, hence the German second name.