Tag: professional
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3 Easy Tips for Dressing Professionally on a Budget
By: Abbie Lee I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying, “First impressions last a lifetime.” Though it’s a classic cliche, it’s rather true. Your style represents an aspect of who you are and may be something others notice immediately. Your outfit can play a large role in the impression you make, especially when you’re in…
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3 Easy Tips for Dressing Professionally on a Budget
By Abbie Lee I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying, “First impressions last a lifetime.” Though it’s a classic cliche, it’s rather true. Your style represents an aspect of who you are and may be something others notice immediately. Your outfit can play a large role in the impression you make, especially when you’re in…
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How to Prepare a Strong Phone Pitch
Photo by Pexels.com By: Valeria Sanchez You may feel intimidated when you pitch to a journalist for the first time. We tend to think of the worst possible outcomes like, what if they don’t like my pitch? or what if they think I’m unprepared? Everyone feels nervous doing something for the first time. Last month…
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How to Be An Inclusive Writer
As an aspiring public relations professional, words are a big part of my job. From press releases to Instagram posts, my words matter and they affect a lot of people. That being said, here is a resource guide for being an inclusive writer: Race: When we, as professionals, are writing for a diverse audience, we…
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5 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble on Social Media
You know this scenario all too well. You are scrolling through your camera roll on Sunday morning and find photos from last night of you with your roommates at the bars. You think you have found a photo that is totally insta-worthy. That is when you should stop, drop and ask yourself, “Is this acceptable…
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Avoid Typographic Disaster – A Guide to Use Typography And Organize Presentations
As we all probably know now, the 2017 Academy Awards had the biggest screw-up in its 88-year history. When Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the nominee for the wrong category of award, they were just as confused as we were. They were given the Best Actress envelope when they were supposed to announce…
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Clients That Seem Challenging Are The Most Fruitful Experiences
In a perfect world, every client you have would be, well–perfect. Whether you’re working a summer job, a rigorous internship for school or have been with the same company for years, there are certain clients that seem to take more out of you than your time and effort. According to the article Coping with difficult…
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Tattoos In The Workplace
Tattoos or “taboos,” depending how you view them, have always been a hot topic of conversation when it comes to the workplace. Questions of their professionalism and whether they belong in the workplace are constantly circling. I think tattoos are beneficial to the workplace for these reasons: Tackle social norms and challenge the changing industry…
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Alumni Update- From TGC to Copernio
The Tehama Group Communications staff this semester consists of about 90 percent seniors. So at this time in the semester all of us are scrambling, sweating and seriously panicking about the fact that we will be graduating in less than five weeks. Where will we live? Who is going to hire us? Was this is…
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An Agency that Stands Out Among the Rest
Image courtesy of Finn Partners There are countless impressive public relations agencies out there, but one stands out among the rest—Finn Partners. Headquartered in New York, NY, Finn Partners is a global marketing communications firm that was founded in 2011. They have 13 offices all across the globe—two of them located right here in California.…