Being an adventurous traveller my whole life, a trip to India was definitely on my list. However, it wasn’t near the top. In January last year, two friends of mine who I had not travelled with before suggested a trip to India on a group tour in the summer. Usually, I’m one to have my
Year: 2020
This may or may not, be the most useless blog to be written simply due to the fact that literally every Tom, Dick and Harry has been Amsterdam at this point but I feel as though I can offer some useful advice to those who haven’t been to the city or even plan on going
That’s what it felt like for a few years anyway. Things just weren’t what I anticipated when I left school and threw myself into University life, that I was sceptical of going to in the first place (I’ll get to that in a bit). ‘What’s for you won’t go past you,’ as my ma liked
The industry of Public Relations is one that I still struggle to explain to anyone when they ask where my degree will actually get me in life. So the way in which I describe it to others is to tell them what PR means to me. What PR means to me… Public relations is having
My earliest memory of my career aspirations stretches back to when I was 7. I entered a drawing competition at my local Credit Union and the topic was ‘What I want to be when I grow up’. At the age of 7 career ideas aren’t overly varied, usually ranging from a nurse, to a singer
Pursuing a degree in PR was not at the top of my list when going through the University prospectuses. In fact, I was so sure I was going to be a psychologist or at least something related to that industry and that was it. Fast forward to results day and what seemed to be my
First of all, what is Public Relations? The Chartered Institute of Public relations has defined Public Relations as ‘the discipline which looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation
Where do I begin… In second year of uni the time soon came to start deciding and applying for placement year opportunities. I’ll be honest with you, my first thought was no way am I dragging this uni carry on out for an extra year – basically I wanted to go straight to final year,
My first introduction to the PR industry was reaping the benefits of free concert tickets and backstage passes to meet many artists thanks to my aunty working as the Sales and Promotions Manager in Cool FM and Downtown Radio for many years. As Morris and Goldsworthy (2016; pp.13) highlighted a career in PR can be
“You could sell ice to the Eskimos.” Although the correct term is ‘Inuit’, my nine-year-old self overlooked this faux pas in the Young Enterprise workshop as visions of world financial domination flooded my impressionable young mind. Before my eyes, my future as a brain surgeon and part-time lawyer morphed into the ambiguous and unimaginative title