-: One thing that I would highly recommend
is honing your writing skills,
so not something that I necessarily
knew to be so important when I was in college:
Writing is truly a skill, and it can be perfected,
so I would practice writing in different styles,
writing in different voices, in different tones,
and if you want to work in tech, I would highly recommend
reading a lot of a tech websites,
so "TechCrunch", "The Verge", "Venture Beat",
anything like that,
just get up to speed on what's happening,
"What's Elon Musk saying right now?",
"What's Mark Zuckerberg saying right now about AI?".
It'll be great to do your research.
Yeah, it definitely helps being extrovert.
Even if you're not an extrovert,
you have to be so confident in yourself and in your skills,
because you have to know that you're the expert
when it comes to your subject matter.
So, you could be working with a client in cloud computing,
and maybe you're not the expert in cloud computing,
but you absolutely are the expert
when it comes to media relations.
Advising your clients on what media
relation's strategy to put into place,
even though you don't have a ton of experience
in cloud computing, is very important.
So you have to be able to deliver feedback
and deliver strategy with confidence.
So, at my agency, we hire when we need someone,
so that ebbs and flows, and there's no way possibly
that we would know who we need to hire,
November of the previous year for May of the next year.
So, I would say just be open to different opportunities,.
Be open to a paid internship after you graduate,
if that's something that's gonna
further your career and help you learn.
And take your time to find the right fit,
because I know that when I graduated,
I saw my friends that had jobs,
and I was like, "Oh man, I'm really behind the ball here,"
but I ended up with something that has been lasting.
I've been in the same job since I graduated.