First Graduate Application Form Ends In Disaster.

I had an absolute nightmare yesterday. I had decided to apply for the graduate application scheme at edelman. They seem really supportive and the scheme looks really good. The cut-off point was the 28th Feburary, so I decided to email it over on the 27th.
The form was one of those standard, reveal everything about yourself [...]

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New Links!

Hey I thought it might be fun if I also provided links to all the companies that I have worked for. I am also trying to upload some of my work. I understand that this could be quite dull – a sort of online portfolio – but I promise that I will try not to [...]

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PR Gifts

First an apology for not writing for a while – things all got a bit hectic over the weekend and somehow I was left stranded away from my computer!
Anyway I am back now. I see that the subject of press gifts are in the news again. The question here is is it ethical to attempt [...]

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Addiction!

Am rather worried about the addictive qualities of blogging! It has now become another welcome break from the dissertation writing business, and I can make it last for ages whilst convincing myself that what I am doing is very relevant and bordering on the virtious. Rather than the displacement activity that secretly I can admit [...]

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The Fustrations of Student Reseach

PR Week is upsetting me this week – well actually it has for a while. The same goes – to an extent – with the CIPR website.
I do understand the need to ask for paid subscriptions to the website, it stops (shock horror) non-PR people from having acssess to it, and possibly becoming over stimulated. [...]

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Is it too soon?

Is it too soon to consider job seeking? I only wonder because I don’t want it to get to June and to have not got a job, and face many more month living with my parents before I can afford to move out.

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The Butler did it!

I’ve just read that ‘Jeeves’ has been dropped by the search engine ask jeeves. This is due to a re-branding and re-positioning of the search engine in which ‘ask jeeves’ will become ‘ask.com’.
I seems a shame that the only thing that distinguished them from hundreds of other search engines is now being dropped, obviously made [...]

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Asking Questions

As part of my dissertation I have decided to get some interviews for my primary research. I hope my tutor does not read this as I said I had done them ages ago!
As discussed earlier I am attempting to shed some light on the whole publicist/PR practitioner condundrum. Hopefully my interviewees will fill the questions [...]

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My Dissertation

For my dissertation I was inspired by Philip Young’s PR Meditations blog written on April 4th. it is only short, but (as these things often do) it was the snowball that started an avalanche.
The blog was written about Mark Borkowski’s colomn in The Guardian about the new face of the CIPR, in which he ‘fire[s] [...]

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Work experience before you graduate; it always pays off

Excellent advise from Blake Barbera, not only does doing as many work placements as humanely possible give you a fantastic oppotunity to work in the field it boosts your CV, an when it comes to writing your dissertation you will have already people to interview, as well as bounce ideas off.
I have found that the [...]

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