Category: Professional Development
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You Ask, I Answer: Advice for May Graduates in PR?
Brianna asks, “What advice would you give to a communication college student graduating in May?” This year’s graduating class will undoubtedly be in one of the most challenging environments for employment in the last decade. For starters: – Do all the passive work: personal website, solid CV, LinkedIn profile – Start the process of building…
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You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Professional Development?
Monina asks, “What do you currently do for professional development? What do you look for?” I practice what’s called inquiry-based learning, or problem-based learning. This particularly methodology comes from the medical world; in the 1960s, students at McMaster University pioneered it in response to rote memorization (though the technique is timeless). Inquiry-based learning brings together…
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You Ask, I Answer: Where Do You Go To Get Smarter?
Jeremy asks, “Who are your communities? Where do you go to get smarter?” In the context of business and marketing, getting smarter in a useful way requires focused learning. Once you’ve become competent in the basics, you need focused lines of inquiry in order to grow. It’s very difficult to just “get smarter” in general…
