Public relations is a career field that I feel is exclusive and very challenging to get into. Our professor Jessica Hamlin, I was happy to find, has been working in the field for years and has experience with how to be prepared to get into such a career path. She gave us tips on how to interview and what to bring to an interview for a PR position. These are things that were not required of the professor but she cares enough about the field and her students to assist with our questions and help us further tweak ourselves and prepare for our careers after graduation.
When I signed up for this course I had all prepared to be putting a lot of hours into the assignments. Especially with it being a research and writing course. I knew I had my work cut out for me. Turns out where I work is extremely behind and they have been working me like crazy. Mandatory overtime, school and then life on top of that has been just a little bit stressful right from the beginning.
The assignments at first were pretty straight forward. Created an issue statement which I find to be something that needs to be completed with every other deliverable in the PR field. It helps you to list out the issue, the strengths and weaknesses of the issue, parties affected and/or audience. I was correct in my assumptions of needing to put a lot of hours in. The readings in the book are not that bad. I actually like the writing style of the author Thomas H. Bivins.
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