Comments on: Is PR for me?

By: Nabilah

Nabilah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:29:51 +0000

Thanks for the advice Todd! I really do appreciate it.

By: Todd And

Todd And — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:31:48 +0000

PR is a great career choice and has treated me well. I’m currently working in corporate marketing, but my career started at PR agencies and I strongly recommend a PR path.

Writing, meeting management, multi-tasking, strategic thinking, creativity, hard work and salesmanship are all skills that will make you successful.

All of my mentors encouraged me to start in the agency world first because you learn in dog years and ultimately become more marketable to the corporate, client side. You may start out low in the salary arena, but you’ll grow that base quickly.

With your business and finance education, you can probably find a good fit in an agency’s B2B division. I spent most of my agency time representing financial and professional service clients, which was an amazing experience. Lots of thought leadership PR with promoting people and expertise (i.e., lawyers, commercial real estate, asset managers, etc.).

All the best to you and your career.

By: Nabilah

Nabilah — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:10:18 +0000

Hi Alain, I definitely think that we should habitually ask ourselves this question, and yes, that’s the question that guides me through my search for a career. The money bit sneaks up on me sometimes though, perhaps a product of the “Singaporean way”.

By: alaindesmier

alaindesmier — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:01:47 +0000

Thanks for the mention – Salary aside, the question I often put to my Delottie friends is, are you actually happy with what you are doing?

By: Derrick Kwa

Derrick Kwa — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:57:06 +0000

I think the whole Web 2.0 thing is still developing. It’s still quite fresh, and by no means is it the norm of PR at the moment. It’s starting to gain a lot of traction, but from my understanding, we’re still figuring all this out. That said, I do find that Singapore (in general) is a bit further behind. So yes, I think you need to ‘get’ the whole web 2.0 thing, but it’s more because it’s where the scene is headed to, as opposed to because of where it is now. Just my thoughts, of course. I’m not in the PR profession or anything, so yeah. I could be wrong.

As for a PR firm blogging, there recently was a discussion about whether PR firms should blog. Not sure if you’ve read it, but it was started by Sam Lawrence, and you can find it here. The comments reminded me about that, so yeah. Just thought I’d throw the link in there. =).

By: Nabilah

Nabilah — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:12:02 +0000

I think so too Daryl.

Take this for example: I’ve been trying to find a PR firm in Singapore that blogs, but insofar as a Google search goes, haven’t found any. If you do know any, let me know yah.

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:44:43 +0000

I think it’s true that we need to know and “get” web2.0, but do PR firms know and get web2.0? I kinda feel that isn’t the case in Singapore though…