Wednesday, 13 August 2014

five tips to consider when studying Public Relations

   

Hey guys, how  is your week so far? well mine its total stressful which I'm facing balancing school work and other projects which I am running but hey I cant complain its a life of being a student being out going and enjoying life at large. The topic which today we will be discussion are the tips which you must consider before you can choose the field of studying PR



Public relations is the practise of managing relationships between your internal and external stakeholders, its a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationship between different organization and maintaining the relationship on an on-going term. It doesn't mean when you have a new client you must forget about your old client but you sustain them for a long process . for more information visit this link to read more:  http://goo.gl/mfjp38

Tips to consider when studying PR

The first question you should establish before you can study PR is what are your expectation in the field of humanities under Public relations? .When you are a shy person, not out spoken you cant make it as  being a public relation practitioners reason being PRPS do many  presentations for their clients and public speaking is involved in the process, you must be fluent in speaking English.

 






 Time management
As a PRP its important to know how to manage your time , everyday you will receive tasks that you need to do and deadline to meet meet, client they only demand their job done its only for you to have a method which works for you as an individual which makes you stand out from the rest. Procrastination its not the way or the route you should consider but do your job from the word go.
 
Writing skills and Editing

Many writing and editing is involved in the PR field .As the PRP of a particular organization you working for you must be able to write media release, edit letters and the speech which is made by the President and many more, when the news editor is not available the PRP takes over the work and check for all the spelling errors and many more. when you publish an article which as spelling errors it damages the organization credibility and the reputation involved.

 
 The video I'm  about to share with you ladies and gentleman  shows what is  public relations is about and how social media plays a vital role in the industry how you could use different social media to influence your internal and external stakeholders. On the other hand it can be a marketing platform you use.

 
Hope the video was informative and you have received useful information which will benefit you as you embark to your journey of becoming the next PRP for the particular company which you will be working for. Lastly you must have drive and passion for the particular career you choose as an individual ,career choose are a very important aspect you must consider because being in the wrong field its depressing.  

15 comments:

  1. This is very interesting and one might not hesitate to study PR. Thank you for the info

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  2. What is the role of PRP in changing the world and where can I study public relations?

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  3. Mpshe thank you for your comment coming to Malatji the role of PRP is to maintain the reputation of their organization so they do not have a bad publicity ,the PRPS can market the organisation to the world lastly you can study PR at UJ bunting road, The University of Tswane and other collage such as Boston and Rose bank

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  4. oh the blog such an interesting tips got me and my girls talking she should keep them coming and complements to her keep it up

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  5. thank you Mamosa for a lovely comment watch out for the next post which is coming soon

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  6. PR field its challenging field that one must bear in mind when you consider to study it while bearing in mind that it takes 20years to build a reputation and 5min to destroy it but overall its a great experience one goes through it

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  7. Matilda can i ask ? lets take for instance im a poet who loves to write poetry can i study public relations in order for it to help me in branding myself good and in improving my writing skills?

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  8. Yes Yvette you can study PR because you have the required skills of writing in the PR field and buy studying PR your writing skills will improve a lot

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  9. what you just provided is very important as i believe that most companies no longer see the need to have a PRPs as they relate it with marketing.i think PR is slowly fading in most organizations because they don't know the difference between marketing and public relations

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  10. Very thoughtful and it most definately those who do not know what public relations entails

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  11. That is true Mapule as we are PRP we not regarded much useful to the organizatin but we must push hard

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  12. matilda I hear you saying shy people can not study pr, yet I'm shy but studying PR, are you indirectly saying I can not succeed in the field if I'm shy. does one's personality has something to do with them studying PR? I don't get you please clarify on that.

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  13. You need to break out of your shell Bongiwe because you will be a public eye representation your client doing more public speeches , or you will work as a consultant

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  14. Pr is a very challenging course, as this steps are very helpful.

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  15. when people think PR is an easy course, we actually all believed that until we got into it, it is time consuming as there is just so much to and in many cases in so little time

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