Guest Post: How Women Can Build Careers Through Networking

This week’s guest post is by Emily Schmidt. Emily is an accountant for a Fortune 500 business, and she enjoys gardening, tennis and freelance writing in her down time. You’ve been working in the business world for a couple of Continue reading Guest Post: How Women Can Build Careers Through Networking

Weekly round-up: Taking a Big Leap, the Exodus and Women Equality

Happy Monday all! I thought I would share three articles I have read in the past week that I found inspirational and interesting 1. Taking the Big Leap Ken Jacobs wrote about his big leap at the age of 50 on Continue reading Weekly round-up: Taking a Big Leap, the Exodus and Women Equality

Guest Post: The State of the Job Market in the UK for PR Professionals

Everyone is well aware that in the wake of the financial crash in 2008 the job market in the UK began to be a very depressing place. Finally, after years of employment figures slowly going up and down and unfulfilled Continue reading Guest Post: The State of the Job Market in the UK for PR Professionals

Young PR Pros: Episode #64 – Ctrl Alt Delete Your Future

What if the rules we’ve been taught to live and build our careers and companies around were no longer valid? A heavy and scary question for some that could mean the complete overhaul of how we look at life as Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #64 – Ctrl Alt Delete Your Future

Young PR Pros: Episode #63 – How do Ottawa Young Professionals Start Their Day?

This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent welcome William Johnson back to the show as a guest host to talk about morning routines. William, or better known as @socialeccentric on Twitter, surveyed more than 20 young professionals in the Ottawa, Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #63 – How do Ottawa Young Professionals Start Their Day?

Young PR Pros: Episode #62 – How your body language shapes who you are

This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent talk about the power of body language and how it can shape who you are. We pull this week’s topic from a TED Talk by Amy Cuddy a social psychologist and a professor Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #62 – How your body language shapes who you are

Young PR Pros: Episode #61 – Accepting LinkedIn requests

Do you ever get a random connection request on LinkedIn? From someone you have never heard or? Or perhaps it someone you don’t remember meeting? Are you the type of person who just hits accept, or are you more guarded Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #61 – Accepting LinkedIn requests

Young PR Pros: Episode #60 – Including Communicators in C-suite Level Meetings

This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent respond to a question from our good friend and devoted listener Sarah Bustard. She asks: Sarah Bustard @sarahbustard @YoungPRPros Looking for topics? I’d be interested in hearing @Kristinesimpson and @kentjulia’s thoughts on this Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #60 – Including Communicators in C-suite Level Meetings