What Are some of the Career Paths for a PR Major?

Carlo Pandian

If you hold a PR major, you are likely to be considering the start of your career by now.  Hopefully, you will have thought about that before you started your major, so you are likely to have a general idea about the line of work you want to be involved in.  In order to find work, you could contact a number of media recruitment agencies, many of which are always on the lookout for PR freelancers.

Type of Employment

There are two main career paths open to you:

• You can go on the books as an employee of a company.
• You can find employers looking for PR freelancers, whereby you basically work for yourself. Continue Reading

Interview with a Public Relations Professional

I have worked for four years as a public spokesperson for a medium sized manufacturing corporation. This is my first job out of college and I have been loving it so far. I help the company shape their image and message and then present it to the public so that they understand what it is we do.

On a personal level, I do a lot of different things for the company. Since I am relatively new, I do a lot of writing press releases or information for our website. This can get tedious, but it is fun to see it come together in one of our advertising campaigns or public outreach efforts. A lot of people think that public relations people just spin bad news all day, but this is quite untrue. It is mostly about establishing a report with the public in order to earn trust in us and our products. This report is always based on truths about our company, however. I have never participated in a campaign that distorted or violated the truth. I am glad to be able to clear that up! Continue Reading