What are you doing next year? How many jobs have you applied for? Are you going to live at home or go away? These are some of the dreaded questions that I’m sure any final year student will agree they get asked at least ten times a week by family, friends and their old neighbour’s
Month: January 2018
We all learn lessons in life and sometimes we wish we knew then, what we know now – or at least I do! So, as a final year student, that’s just about survived first semester, I thought I would pass on some tips to future final years in the fab Jordanstown UU. Enjoy Uni while you still can I had heard people say that
It’s final year, it’s time to pick a dissertation topic. If you are anything like me, the first thought that will come to mind is probably a big fat HOW?!? How do you go about picking a topic, how do you format your question, how is it possible, in this day and age, with the
Dear possible student, While deciding on what I was going to study PR barely took my notice. I always believed that I would do history or politics of a combination of both. They were my favourite subjects in school and I automatically went for them when attending any university fairs and prospectuses in lower and
Beginning your journey at university can be an exciting but also a daunting experience, well, at least it was for me. When people think about the typical ‘Student Life’ they think about moving away from home, spending your entire student loan within the first week of Freshers, and living on Pot Noodles for eight months
Dyslexia isn’t an issue that can be helped in one certain way, and having suffered with it for my whole academic life I can’t imagine what it would be like not to have it. I am constantly trying different and new things to see what works best for me. So, I have decided to list
There are currently around 850, 000 people living with Dementia in the UK. Dementia knows no boundaries, no age limits, no race, and no gender. The youngest person to ever be diagnosed with Dementia in the UK was 6… Yes! 6 years old! Whilst on my placement with Radius Housing, at the request of John
It’s one of the most basic tenets of the whole PR game, and one that’s shared with much of the corporate world, the principle of SWOT. For those of you who haven’t had it implanted in your head by a succession of lectures, meetings and briefings, it stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, which
The Charity sector. Somewhere I didn’t think a degree in Public Relations could take you. My views were drastically changed through my placement year at Concern Worldwide where I saw the range of activities that a PR professional can engage in. Going into my interview (which was a day before I was heading off on
In this day and age, there is an ever-growing need for organisations to pursue some sort of online presence to try and expand their ability to target and communicate with customers. Social media has accentuated this ability and thus has begun the age of instant communication to and from the once powerless consumer. Most organizations