>> So for me it's not even necessarily about the specific courses that people have taken.
Public relations is great, communications is great, journalism is great,
but I want to know how do you write, how do you tell a story, how do you communicate,
how do you present yourself if you don't have those four key skills,
especially for public relations.
And it's very difficult because you can't do anything without them.
The whole point is you want people to buy into your mission, you want to make them care,
you want to make them become invested and become involved.
The way you do that is through that compelling voice so that people are able
to really see themselves into what you're saying.
So, I would say try creative writing.
If it's not very obvious on your resume, include some writing samples,
include graphics materials because those are huge.
People are very visual now, especially if you're looking into going into social media.
So, being able to have that graphics experience, it doesn't have to be on Photoshop
or it doesn't have to be on InDesign it can use something as simple as a tool called Canva
which I use and the images come across very professionally, but it's so simple
and it doesn't take that much time.
If someone doesn't have that very obvious career track or course track
that shows this is what I'm interested in and this is what I've done to get there,
being able to supplement that through your hobbies or through anything you do
in your extracurricular time can be huge.
If you know you want to work in PR, but maybe your major is anthropology then join a club,
become their communications chair.
Just find those little things that you can do to supplement.