Lets talk about my major

 

 My major is communications with a concentration in Public Relations, who would have thought that my career path will be along these lines? because everyone including myself saw “journalist” or journalism written in my stars. By everyone I mean my parents, witty and educated aunts and uncles in the family, cousins, and so on all ascribed my curiosity as a kid and being the one who would ask questions as a trait in me that was going to lead me to be a reporter, writer or something that has to do with working in the media.

While my curious nature is still very much intact, I started to see things differently as i was taught the various fields in communication. Between advertising, marketing, journalism, and Public relations, my love for PR was unmatched with the other three because in my major, I am taught how to be a journalist or at least think and write like one, understand the concept of marketing and advertising which sometimes is interwoven with PR when considering the integrated marketing mix and because of the broad nature of PR I found myself being very passionate about wanting to be a PR specialist. This means thinking out of the box and helping organizations and their publics/ communities have mutually beneficial relationships.

The best part of being a PR specialist is that one can snag an employment opportunity with almost any organization as PR is all-encompassing in dealing with various stakeholders of an organization, internal communication which has to do with employee relations and general welfare and external communications which deals with publicity, image, advertising marketing and promoting goodwill where the target audience or potential target audience of an organization can be found.

I can't wait to get out there and change the world with my skills and acquired knowledge in PR but if I also find myself in front of a teleprompter reading the evening news for CNN or ABC news, I will be ready.