A Career in PR

Last week I interviewed my professor Azhar Hussain for my Public Relations class. He chose him because he used to deal with public relations when he managed the airport Orlando Kissimmee.

His typical day at the airport was to make safety inspections around the airport, make sure constructions sites are safe, talk to the tenants and makes sure their needs were taking care of, and making sure the regular inspections are up to date.

His proudest achievement while he was at the airport was when he constructed an engine run up area so that the runway could hold more planes. That way the business planes wouldn’t interrupt the flight school planes.

The way he kept up in the public industries was by making the community happy. He did this by sending out flyers to the surrounding community of the airport, informing them of what new things would be happening at the airport that might affect them. He also would listen to their opinions and complaints about the airport.

The thing he wished he would have known before getting in to his career was be to be better-rounded in his answering questions skills.

He also said “writing was a very important in his career because it helped him present himself better and to get his message out to his employees better.”

His three tips for people entering this type of career were; to always make sure you know what you are saying and are talking about, try not to say things that might embarrass you later on in your life, and to always be mindful of every ones privacy.  

After interviewing him, I realize I wouldn’t enjoy having a job like this because I don’t always like having to watch what I say or having to worry about trying to make everyone happy. I also wouldn’t like listening to every ones complaints about things.

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Be a Follower Not a Leader

I am new to twitter so here are some ways I feel that will help me gain new followers on twitter. I will start off by making my twitter account look as professional as I possibly can. I will do this by describing myself with words that I feel people will search a lot but still describes me well. My picture will show my personality. So that people don’t think I am some kind of robot that just cares about work and has no time for fun. I will make sure my posts are mainly professional but every now and then I will throw in one that is personal for the same reason as before. I will make sure my followers and following are balanced because if I am following a lot of people and a lot of people are not following me back it makes people wonder or think twice about following me, with the usual result being that I don’t gain a new follower. It also goes the other way too because if I have a lot of people following me but I don’t have a lot of followers, it makes me come off as being stuck up or some other adjective that people don’t usually like to be friends with, and most people wouldn’t want to follow someone like that. It also might be intimating to someone that they wouldn’t even try to get me to follow them back.

When I myself am trying to get someone to follow me, I will follow them first and them leave them a tweet that makes me seem interested in them or their profession or give them a reason to be interested in me. I might also just do something as simple as retweeting some of their stuff they have posted to show them I am interested.

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Social media …

 

 

Social media is the epitome of today’s society. Everyone in today’s generation knows how to use some sort of social media whether it is facebook, twitter, instagram, or just a simple blog.  Schools all around the world are starting to teach kids at an early on how to use social media pages. As these kids get older the schools are going to keep teaching them on the new and updated ways to use all the social media pages out there. This will cause social media to erupt into the norm of society.  In just a few years everything will be handled through social media websites. There won’t be any need to use paper materials. For example, people won’t sent letters to one another because they can simply just get on a social media website and send them an email that would get there much faster. It also would be much cheaper for them because they won’t have to pay for stamps. This is why businesses tending to resort to electronic billing instead of paper billing. In the same regards schools have stopped teaching cursive writing, and started teaching typing instead because people have stopped sending as many letters. There are now high schools that can be taken online. It used to only be that people could take college online but it has spread down to high school now.

All of this is going to bring social media and public relations to a whole new level in the near future. It is going to be where people won’t even need to leave their homes. They can do everything at home. They are even developing virtual worlds for work places. Where employees don’t even have to actually go to work to go to work, they just get on their computers at home and start up a virtual work place.

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