Posted by Kelly Donovan on August 5, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Are all the right gizmos stashed inside your job search toolkit?
Stuart W. Doyle, ABC (Accredited Business Communicator)
A few tips for finding the right job:
1. Don’t be passive.
Actively seek out a job. Don’t broadcast your resume to dozens of potential employers you might want to work for or hand your resume over to a recruiter and expect them to get you a job.
Have multiple resumes that are tailored to a specific position. You’ll receive more interested employer responses when you highlight exactly how and why you are qualified for their opening.
Along that line, have multiple versions of a cover letter. Don’t know how to write a stellar cover letter? Check out your college’s career center for literature or counselors who can help you write one. Virginia Tech’s Career Center has an excellent Web site that can help you write a cover letter.
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Posted by Kelly Donovan on August 5, 2008 at 02:56 PM
The Difference Between Corporate, Nonprofit, and Agency Public Relations
The following is an abbreviated, paraphrased transcript of a panel of PR professionals who spoke on various topics relating to the different types of PR organizations and jobs available to today’s rising PR professionals. The students in this session enjoyed hearing about the “real world” of public relations and asking some burning questions of their own.
Panel members:
Joe Chabus, APR – leads internal communications at Universal Studios, graduate of UCF
Dan Ward – vice president and partner with public relations agency Curley & Pynn, graduate of UCF
Audrey Perrot – director of communications at A Gift for Teaching, an Orlando-based non-profit, graduate of UF
Moderator – Ryan Sheehy, communications professor at UCF
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