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Guest Post: The PR Generalist vs. The Industry Specialist

Deirdre Breakenridge

Those with a penchant for finance may go the IR route or look to represent banks or investment products, as someone with a love of travel takes a position with a destination or tourism bureau. And keep in mind that internal communication departments often provide room for growth as you develop your skills. Consider joining PRSA.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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How to Reach Career Resonance: Purpose, Passion and Persistence

PR Job Coach

I put out an email to my network about potential new opportunities and received a response from someone at Visit Oakland who I had known in the community. After the initial interview, my boss created my role which plays directly to my strengths—media and relationships. It was hands down the best first job out of college!

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One key PR ethics lesson from the Pulse nightclub shooting – Ann Marie Varga

Ethical Voices

Pete area, but I’ve worked in agencies, corporations, and my experience spans a variety of industries including academia, banking, government, healthcare, tourism, and utilities. We assigned an intern to her to make sure she ate, to take notes, to answer her phone, to take messages. I now live in the Tampa/St.

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22 PR Rock Stars of the Future

Communications Conversations

She is particularly interested in pursuing a career with an international nonprofit that works to alleviate poverty and improve educational opportunities around the globe. She’s done an extensive survey and in-dedpth interviews. For all of these reasons, she is among our top graduating PR students this year. Tori Olker, @toriiio.

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PR Is As PR Does

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali PR Is As PR Does October 28th, 2010 Tweet Just a little bit crazy This has been a bit of a crazy week for me (actually, it’s been a bit of a crazy last few weeks for me, but who’s counting?).

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

A word of caution, though; if your business’ internal systems and/or processes are broken, there’s no amount of social media activity that can fix that, as Jen Zingsheim and Mark Story point out on last week’s Media Bullseye Radio Roundtable. (It’s Social media is a great way to start doing this.