Real-Life Lesson Learned

We all chose our degrees because it's something that we are (hopefully) interested in pursuing as a career. We all know that some people don't necessarily understand or value what we do. Yesterday I encountered some people in my class that have absolutely no value for public relations. This is a problem because we, as a class, are putting on an event, and I am the committee chair for publicity.
I can understand not knowing what public relations is, or not knowing the difference between public relations, marketing or advertising. But these people were flat-out rude to me about what they did and didn't want, and to our opinion as a group, it was obvious that we are undervalued, and their logic for not wanting publicity was unsubstantiated.

Lessons learned:
1. find ways to quantitatively back up your arguments.
2. when I'm looking for a job, if it's in corporate I am asking to see a org flow chart to see how PR/communications falls on the food chain.

Posted by Christina on 1/30/2008 10:44:00 PM
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