what you can't see is the delicious cream scone Simone is just enjoying - and she calls this work!
After graduating in 2007 with a BA Hons in PR, I found myself on work experience at Pegasus PR in Sussex within a few months. During this 3 month placement I was offered a permanent job as Junior Account Executive and whilst the business has grown so has my career, I am now Account Manager across several successful consumer health and lifestyle brands. 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
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