Robert is Head of External Relations at Givey UK
While academic qualifications are important, in the world of PR it is experience which speaks for itself. Not once has a client or potential client been interested in communication models or even whether I had a degree. What they care about is ‘does this person have the expertise to get my company’s name into the media’. It is for this reason that you really can’t afford not to do a year in industry. Continue reading
Suzi has some great advice for getting on in PR down under….
Firstly I would recommend to all grads studying PR or journalism to take advantage of the optional year in industry, I think if it wasn’t for this opportunity getting my career off the ground would have been much harder. When you graduate you already have a solid year of experience which employers look very fondly upon. I spent my gap year at a small boutique agency in London working across travel and fashion clients. Continue reading
After graduating from Lincoln with a BA (Hons) in Public Relations, I went on to work for a food specialist PR agency. Continue reading
After studying PR at Lincoln I spent three years in tech PR in London. I’ve since risen to Account Director at the UK’s most awardwinning B2B PR consultancy, Man Bites Dog. Continue reading
I’m a Junior Account Executive on the Consumer team at Lexis – the Recommendation Agency. Day to day my job involves a lot of planning for launch events of different products, and trying to secure coverage in the media. 
As well as using social media to reach consumers and bloggers directly. Continue reading