Young PR Pros: Episode #104 – Networking tips for the young professional

In this episode, hosts Kristine D’Arbelles, Julia Kent and Ross Simmonds talk about tips and advice for networking. Our hosts answer common questions like how do you approach a group of people you don’t know? Are business cards really necessary? Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #104 – Networking tips for the young professional

From Journalism to PR: Episode #1 – The Transition from Young Journalist to Young PR Pro

For the eighth semester in a row, Young PR Pros host, Julia Kent, was invited to speak as part of a three-person panel at the University of Carleton School of Journalism alongside Lauren More, vice-president of communications with Ford Canada Continue reading From Journalism to PR: Episode #1 – The Transition from Young Journalist to Young PR Pro

Young PR Pros: Episode #79 – Talking to Director Level Communicators, Good or Bad?

This week, hosts Kristine D’Arbelles and Julia Kent expand on a recent Spin Sucks article titled Kelly Blazek Proves Communicators Have One Chance to Get it Right by Gini Dietrich. The articles talks about how a senior communicator sent a Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #79 – Talking to Director Level Communicators, Good or Bad?

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

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

Young PR Pros: Episode #59 – 10 Ways the Job Search has Changed

This week, hosts Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent talk about the ways the job search has changed. Your parents may have instilled job searching lessons in you as a child, but some of those lessons no longer apply. In a Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #59 – 10 Ways the Job Search has Changed

Young PR Pros: Episode #58 – Let’s Follow #Jobline

This week, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent add another episode in the bank of our Who to Follow series, where we profile young and young at heart PR professionals that deserve your follow on Twitter. Today’s profile is not of Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #58 – Let’s Follow #Jobline

Young PR Pros: Episode #57 – Your 30s are not the new 20s by Meg Jay

Hosts, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent, are really excited about this week’s topic. Julia introduces this week’s topic: a TED Talk by Meg Jay called Why 30 is not the new 20. Lately it feels as if 25 is just Continue reading Young PR Pros: Episode #57 – Your 30s are not the new 20s by Meg Jay