Our final blog assignment for our PR Tactics I course was to look over the work of some PR Tactics II students. I enjoyed this assignment very much. Their assignment was to find UW-Whitewater Alumni that were Public Relations majors and see where they are at in their careers now. They interviewed them and put the video on YouTube. This not only gave me insight to a project that I will be doing as a PR Tactics II student next semester, but it also allowed me to see the great variety of career paths that this major has taken people to. I like seeing where people work and learning about their journey to get to where they are now. They are also the perfect people to take advice from because they have been through things that I have yet to experience.
I viewed numerous of these interview videos and narrowed it down to 3 that I valued the most.
The first video I enjoyed was an interview with Rick Daniels. He is the Greek Leadership Adviser at UW-Whitewater. He graduated and began his career at the university in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZ4VJQ2r_U
He helps promote Greek life and is able to share his experiences because he was Greek himself when he was a student. I enjoyed this video because he gave extremely beneficial advice that I will always keep in mind. Such as, always saving all your work from college and things you have accomplished, because all of it can help you in your future. Daniels also said to aggressively pursue your internships, even if they are small. Small things lead to big things.
The second video that caught my attention of them all was Ginny Bocek. She is a Parks Program Specialist with the Waukesha County Parks System.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meKGSJFkuAQ
She deals a lot of advertising and newspapers and promotes events going on. She also works a lot on the social media for people to always know things that are going on. She gave advice to students by telling us to keep an open mind in anything we do and any experience we have, we should take all that we can from it and utilize it in our future. Bocek also notes that often times our first job out of college may not be what we exactly imagined, but it will get there. Just keep moving forward and take all that you can from each experience.
The third video that I valued was Brian Kohlmann's interview. I met with him at the BMA event we went to back in February and valued his advice. Kohlmann is a sales representative and cross media specialist at The Printery, which is a consolidated graphics company in New Berlin, Wis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU6z0LJ9Qzg
I like how he is so passionate about his job. He receives satisfaction from meeting his client's needs and enjoys that there is never a dull day in his career. Kohlmann also emphasized that the decision to come to UW-Whitewater didn't affect him as a person, it was the experiences he had while he was there and the relationships he's maintained still to this day.
