From: carole@peregrine.Sun.COM (Carole Parker)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: Interview with PR Firm
Date: 9 Jan 93 09:12:04 GMT
Organization: Sun
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In article <C0K6Bs.3MF@athena.cs.uga.edu> stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton) writes:
>Hi guys, you all might remember me from a post yesterday, the
>southerner in Baltimore going to an interview today.
>
>Well, I went.  And quite frankly, I am amazed.
>It was my first "formal" job interview.  Basically I made a cold
>call to a Public Relations firm in Baltimore, and somehow, miraculously,
>the secretary to whom I spoke managed to set me up an appointment with
>the Vice President of the firm.
>
>I was AMAZINGLY nervous, I felt rather unprepared despite some hours
>in the local library trying to research this firm.  One of the problems
>I ran into was that it was so small, it was rarely written up in the news,
>etc.  I figured I'd go in, crash and burn, chalk it up to a learning 
>experience, and move on with my tail tucked neatly between my legs.
>
>Let me preface this by saying I have NO PR or internship experience.  I 
>am an almost (5 hour independent study short) journalism graduate from UGA.
>I honestly never expected to get the remotest chance to even darken the
>doors of this place -- but you never know until you try.
>
>I spoke to the Vice President who was simply WONDERFUL.  He answered some
>of my queswtions, expressed regret at my lack of experience, but gave me    
>another option to check out.
>
>He spent a good while talking to me then mentioned a Graduate Internship
>program with the company.  He brought in the woman who heads up this program
>which is a three month internship, at the end of which there is no guarantee
>of a job, but a good many of their interns stay on and work with them.  Then,
>he brought in the ad executive for whom I would be working if I were to intern,
>and after talking to all of them, offered me the position.  
>
>I am just amazingly confused, my resume is either better than I thought,
>or I just presented myself unbelieveabley (and I mean *unbelieveably*
>well).  Either way, this is a great opportunity but I am understandably
>thoroughly panicked about moving up to Baltimore for three months for a
>"maybe maybe not" possiblity at a job.  At any rate, this would be 
>INCREDIBLE experience for a person like me, and I know firsthand that such
>internships are amazingly difficult to find, at least in Athens.
>
>Do you all happen to have any suggestions, comments, ideas?  Would you
>just pick up and move for the opportunity to gain some invaluable
>experience?  I'm just really curious to hear your output, since you all
>have been very supportive in answering my previous questions.
>
My gut level is to say: Go for it!  Small companies can give you very
valuable experience that you couldn't get in a large company.  If you have an
apartment, see if you can sublet the apartment for the three months you'll be
away.  Then, if the position doesn't work out, you'll have a place to go back
to.  If it does work out, then it won't be so hard to let it go.

Also, if an employer sees that you've been employed in the field, it will
help your resume.


I found myself. See? I'm right here! Until later--

Carole Parker
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc