-: Yeah, I think communications for PR can be good.
Journalism is great here.
We know that journalism students
usually know how to tell a good story,
which is integral in what we do.
As well as business.
So with digital marketing and communications
being so tied together, business is obviously
a good degree to get there as well.
I think writing, write everything and anything that you can.
We give all of our entry level, all of our levels, actually,
a writing test before they begin.
And you have no idea how many people get weeded out
from that, right from the get go.
Writing is key in everything that we do, like website copy.
From being able to parcel it down for a tweet,
to writing press releases.
It's like, the essential,
so any experience you can get in college
through classes, and then as well through extra curriculars.
I think networking with people.
So I had two unpaid internships,
and then I actually got my first job,
my account coordinator job,
by reaching out to someone in my alumni network.
And I knew that she had worked at an agency
and was pretty high up there and I just asked for advice.
So, I think sometimes networking with people
and talking to people, getting yourself out there,
is really how to get your foot in the door these days.
PRSSA, so that's the
Public Relation Student Society of America,
which in your career turns into the PRSA,
that's really a great one to see,
cause it means that you're interested in public relations
and you're working on that.
Any school newspaper, school broadcasting program,
any of those would be important.
And then, even being the communications chair
of any other organization.
So, when I was in college I was a cheerleader.
If I was the communications chair of cheerleading,
that would have appealed to me
when I'm looking at your resume.