Advice For PR Students

Next week I'm going to be giving a presentation to a group of PR students. Besides telling them about Canada's favorite newswire, I thought I'd also give them a bit of advice.

As I mentioned earlier, Julie Ruscioelli Rusciolelli* recomends that they include some of their interests on their resume, so I'll probably tell them about that.

I also plan on telling them that they should get involved in social media - its a great way to start learning about PR and a great way to start interacting with the people that will eventually be their peers (and potential employers).

Can you think of anything else I should tell them?

*UPDATE: Also make sure you check your spelling.

Friday Morning Highlights

I was going to write a full-on blog post this afternoon, but I think I got too much sun today so I'm going to leave you with a couple of other posts I think you should read: -David Meerman Scott has a great post about personal branding and Twitter - it was so great that I shared it with some of my coworkers, then immediately realized that my own Twitter page isn't exactly up to par (I'm working on it!).

-io9 makes the point that web-series are the new direct-to-dvd. The example that they use is for a series called The Artifact that is being offered on YouTube and on the show's website. I think that's just a great way to repackage something, and it will actually make me (a guy that doesn't have a tv at home) more likely to watch it.

-Our favorite PR Maven has some good advice for young job-seekers (in the field of PR or not): don't skip the "interests" section on your resume. This is your chance to stand out.

Until next time...

-Parker Mason