Meeting the PR high fliers of tomorrow

MMUPR spent the day at the PRCA careers day at the Natural History Museum in London today. Over one hundred students from a wide range of backgrounds converged on London to find out more about working in public relations. The packed programme included sessions on working in-house versus agency, digital PR and the topic everyone had come to hear about, breaking into PR.

A number of companies were present advertising their internship opportunities and graduate schemes, each swamped with the high-fliers of tomorrow! Cohn & Wolfe tempted conference-goers with a stand laden with well-known brands and products, and as if this weren't tempting enough, they offer a great paid internship programme and graduate scheme; log on to cohnwolfe.com or email greatcareers@cohnwolfe.com for more information. Bite Communications, voted one of the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for, offers a great graduate scheme for those interested in the growing digital sector; email rowan.mckinlay@bitecommunications.com for more information. Waggener Edstrom are one of the world's largest independent integrated communications agencies. With over 850 people in 19 offices across the world, Waggener Edstrom specialises in technology, healthcare and energy sectors and with has a specialist digital team, Studio D, making it a great fit for MMUBS PR & Digital Comms students! They have a variety of schemes and are always on the look out for graduates and interns so for more information email paulag@wagged.com or follow them on twitter, @WaggedHR_UK

If a graduate scheme doesn't appeal, then new venture, PR Apprenticeships, developed in conjunction with PRCA might be of interest. The scheme is a level 4 programme which combines 4 days in work with one day's training per week and has been developed to meet the needs of industry. The scheme will be running a series of events throughout the year, including one in Manchester, so check out the website for more details: www.prapprenticeships.com.

As for MMUPR, the MSc in International Public Relations attracted a lot of interest from humanities undergraduates looking to specialise and develop their PR skills after graduation, so hopefully we will have an ingesting cohort next year! All in all an interesting day and a packed programme, so MMUPR, do try and get along to the next one!