Back in the dark ages (two years ago), Todd Defren of SHIFT Communications wrote a pair of blog postings about the state of public relations education for undergrads. He wrote about The Trouble with Undergrad PR Programs and Fixing Undergrad PR Programs. Since I teach public relations at Georgia Southern University, this topic piqued my interest. I wondered if his thoughts and research from two years ago still held true today.
If you are a recent PR graduate (or current intern), I’d be quite interested to learn a few things:
- What’s something you learned in your PR education that you’re applying on a regular basis at work now?
- What’s something that you wish you had learned more about?
- And, what’s something that you didn’t really learn anything about in your classes that you’re expected to do on a (fairly) regular basis in your new career in PR?
Comments from recent grads and those who hire recent grads are quite welcome!
Photo titled “graduates” originally uploaded to Flickr by SuzanneK
