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Why I Got My APR and a New Job in the Same Year

PRSay

I have a wide range of experience, from internal to corporate to digital communications. I enrolled in the APR Online Study Course and leveraged the materials — especially the practice question exercises — but I mostly prepared alone. It also got me thinking more critically about the skills I’d need to succeed when I got there.

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Treat Your Communications Counselors Like Your Lawyers

Solo PR Pro

Ahem, by the way, that's against our code of ethics.). The same comparison is true of a big PR/Communications agency vs a boutique or solo practitioner. Can you explain the timing it might take for this (media interview, article submission, messaging exercise etc.) So why ask your PR team to guarantee media results?

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What APR Stands for — and It’s Not Annual Percentage Rate

PRSay

But the exercise in assessing your body of knowledge of this vast profession has remained constant whether typed or through today’s technology. I wasn’t sure I mustered the same level of skill as my esteemed agency peers. I didn’t work for a large corporation with big budgets and grand campaigns.

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How to Build Trust Ethically and Effectively – Roy Reid

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do when your client asks you to besmirch the competition How to effectively and ethically build trust What to do when employees, clients and partners break your trust Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career?

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Eight Questions to Answer Before Accepting an Internship

PR Job Coach

As noted in a past post on internships, PRSA believes it is ethically improper to employ anyone who adds real value to a public relations agency or department without compensating them for their work – whether that compensation is monetary or in the form of educational credits.

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7 Reasons Your B2B Content Marketing Program Fails to Deliver that You Probably Haven’t Heard Before

Sword and the Script

That’s a fruitless exercise for all involved, which brings us to the next point. A few months back a relatively mature startup doing some cool things in IoT and corporate real estate approached me for a proposal. Content marketing in B2B isn’t a benevolent exercise in goodwill. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute them?

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11 Steps For Crisis Management

Prohibition

Most crises go unrecognised even as early warning signals appear, submerged in the flood of the everyday operation of an agency or obscured by prejudices, preconceptions, and blind optimism. Or it could be a production, financial or management failure that causes a corporate crisis for your business.