Goodbye

This will be the last post regarding out wonderful PR107 class. Although senioritis set in early for me this year i learned more about PR then ever before. My internship allowed get me a huge confidence boost as i saw and experienced first hand some of the work PR professional do day to day. Id like to take this time to talk about the school of comm and all that it has been doing to help PR students move on to the real world. I actually got a meeting with Dean Oppenheim and spoke to him about my future plans.He recomended that i pursue a masters degree in the field of communications. You see im not sure im ready to get a good employee at a PR firm not do i feel my skills are developed enough to stand out in a company's eyes. Isnt that the point. To set yourself apart from everyone else so you have a better chance of moving up the PR ladder. Well that what i want to do and i figure more schooling will equal more skills. Ive been considering doing the masters program for speech communication to develop my verbal skills more. I just want to build myself to education and experience instead of just throwing myself into a job and hoping for the best. Im a pessimist who does believe in the whole work hard and you will be rewarded idea. I believe that you must bring something new and original to the table and use PR as a stepping stone to bigger better things. PR gives you such great skills and connections to utilize in any way you can imagine. Why not give yourself a head start by getting a masters degree to show off to an employee and at the same time use knowledge of what you learned from the masters program to be innovative in the field. As much as we all try to be different we end up in the same places(entry level positions). So make sure that your next step goes beyond being a good employee. You have to figure out ways to be the best at what you do without the company you work for as well.

importance of employee communications

This past week i was writing a short paper about the importane of employee relations and the value in creating a comfortable and inspiring working environment. Everyone that comes out of college is nervous and scared about finding a job that they want. We are all in a panic about what we are going to do after college. But we sometimes forget to consider that even if we get our dream job there is a chance that we may hate it because not every company treats their employees fairly and not every company makes working there enjoyable. I feel like all companies in this day and age should undertstand that if their employees are simply coming to work and counting down the hours till they leave, then productivity will continously stand still. Management must make the effort to open communications with the staff and make them feel comfortable about sharing ideas, concerns, thoughts, suggestions, or comments. And employee must feel comfortable coming up to his boss to discuss something and his boss must be able to share feeback and motivate the employee to work at a top level. There has too be a constant flow of meetings, newsletters, emails, and dialogue for employees to be fully engaged in the company. There should be incentives to do good work as well because lets face it we tend to work harder for a prize.It doesnt have to be anything big and could even be as simple as a handshake from your boss with a genuine "great job" attached. If a company makes an effort to make the work place enjoyable and an employee recognizes that an works his butt off, then everyone will be happy and the company will do much better.