Author Archives: Kathi P.

Last month, Oxford University organized a special graduate fair in Berlin in conjunction with Berlin Free University, Cambridge University, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics. The goal of the event was to help the German students from these schools find employers in their home country.

This event was a great opportunity for Meltwater’s German offices to meet interesting graduates and to present our company as an outstanding career opportunity.

After leading our New Zealand office for a year as the Managing Director, I have now returned to the German speaking region and have taken on a more strategic role as the Recruitment…

In my last blog post I wrote about finding my way within the Meltwater organization and how and why I ended up “down under,” all of which probably sounded quite fancy and great. In this post I want to go into more detail on what my very first months at Meltwater were like. These first few months were not so fancy, but rather hard work. This was a really important time for me and I wanted to share it here.

I started out in our Berlin office and was quite aware that it would be B2B sales position, but to…

I thought opening up the first office of Meltwater News in New Zealand would be a challenge, but right now I am faced with even a bigger challenge: how to start my very first blog post???

Introducing myself seems like a good idea…

So here goes: my name is Kathrin – called Kathi though by everybody – I am 27, and I started working for Meltwater in Berlin in February 2007, right after graduating with an International Business and Cultural Affairs degree from the lovely University of Passau in Germany.

After graduating I was open to doing a lot of things but I did…