The experience from the interviews was more than great!It was very helpful to experience and do all of this, in the beginning, I felt a bit intimidated because professionals were standing infant of me and I had to be professional as well and know exactly what I’m doing. I learned how to be more professional, how to be more organised, especially i learned what I need to do in order to achieve my dream in the PR industry.
Lauren Bromley – WPR Digital Marketing Agency
Today our first guest speaker called Lauren Bromley came today to speak about her career and the paths she took to accomplish her dream in Digital Marketing. Lauren started off by giving an informative presentation. In this presentation, she spoke about her time in Birmingham University studying creative industry and the jobs you can get after completing this course such as Production Assistance, Brand Manager, PR Account Executive, Freelance etc. Lauren went on to explain the procedure she used to find a job after graduation and how booked career talks and attended career events to help in her decision for her career path. successfully she got an internship during the summer but wasn’t too happy about the job role due to the lack of queries of the job role and she regretted it. Lauren advised that when applying, at the interview we should ask a lot of questions about the job role, make sure it’s right for you and get paid. she advised that a lot of people apply for jobs than 3 months later quit because they feel the job isn’t right for them. This helped me to understand the procedure one should take when looking for a job. Lauren got her first job as a Junior Account Executive in Birmingham. For this type of job role the essential skills one requires is Communication skills, hard work and adequate knowledge in Digital Marketing. She spoke briefly about the job role which really intrigued me. She stated that she only worked at that company for 2 months and then got a better offer for a Social Media Manager and she enjoys this role better. She spoke about what her job role entitles which is more client facing, attending film shoots and networking and events etc. I am personally glad Lauren came to speak with us merely because before this guest speaker presentation I had already made up my mind I wanted to go into Public Relations but didn’t realise there were so many sectors in public relations It was nice to start off with a female guest speaker who spoke and advised us on the right routes to pass when applying for jobs after graduation.
Natalie Cheary – Insight PR Consultancy
I was glad and excited about this guest speaker coming to speak with us as you already may know I am highly intrigued in public relations and want to graduate and work for a PR agency. Natalie was very informative with her advice, she started off by talking about how she started off as a journalist who slated the Spice Girls for selling rip off merchants to the public she was then noticed and asked to work with Fraud Communications and then work Spice Girls in promoting their brand. she also went on to explain she has been in film, tv and celebrity PR for over 20 years and worked on so many campaigns we see on TV today. Natalie then explained she moved to Freelance and worked with some amazing people she also said she had to go back to learn a degree which helped her understand and equip her to edit films and shoot. she then went on to explain how she worked on soo many projects and campaigns and I released that working in the PR industry there is soo many job roles one can divert to and this really excited me listening to her show and talk about the amazing projects she and her team achieved. I was very happy when listening to Natalie’s presentation which was very informative and she was able to elaborate on certain issues very well. Natalie went on to speak about how she and her team are working hard with students who have graduated and wanting to start their career in media as she believes anyone and everyone can be great. I was very happy about this presentation and believe Natalies advice and answer to questions were great and defiantly helped me during my process of finding placement jobs. It was a great pleasure having Natalie coming to share her experience as it really inspired and motivated me in preparing for what’s ahead after graduation.
Abbie Trayler-Smith- Document and Portrait Photographer
Abbie is a welsh self-taught documentary and portrait photographer. She spent eight years as a photographer with The Daily Telegraph, covering world events such as the Darfur conflict, the Iraq war and the Asian tsunami, before deciding to go freelance in 2007. Abbie now works for a wide variety of clients including Time, The Sunday Times, The Independent Review, Marie-Claire, Tatler, Monocle, Vice, Oxfam, Save The
Children, IRC, UNICEF, Sony and BBC worldwide. Her speech was verymotivating asshe spoke about her exciting exhibitions shes done such as the 2014 World Press Photo Exhibition: Worldwide Tour and the
2014 Ideastap Magnum Photographic Award at The Truman Brewery, London. From listening the her presentation i realised Abbie was motivated and strived very hard to get to wear she is right now and the only thing that kept her going was motivation. Looking and Abbies projects and art was exceptional and was great to see that the meida industry actually is as wide as they say it is and today i got the chance to experience this but listening to Abbies story and viewing her exceptional pictures.
Media And Communicataion Studies 