I was sitting at my desk during class, and I began to daydream. I didn’t even realize that I had been typing mid-sentence when I realized I don’t actually know what PR is all about and what it will be like in the future.
In the article Your Future in Public Relations by Steve R. Van Hook, he talks about the many options in public relations from salary to career areas like government and agency work. I liked the article because it answered questions about the public relations field, simple questions, that thought I had answers.
Like everything else, research really does help give insight to the unknown. I recommend giving it a good read, even though you may think you know all you need to from that “one” internship last summer. He gives some great advice about the “rough times’ and how to prepare for the future.
The article stresses being prepared and offers somewhat of a checklist for readers to think about when reading. Checklists always offer an internal clock on people and it helped me really think about what I have and haven’t done to be ready for the PR field. Get yourself a mental checklist and look through some online articles written by PR professionals and their experiences in the field. Just think, you may find an answer to question you didn’t know you had!
