Significant Career Lesson from a Public Relations Consultant at Global Medical Transportation Company
Nicole's most significant career lesson is the importance of maintaining positive relationships, describing the PR industry as "very small, but still at the same time, very large," emphasizing the benefit of networking and exchanging contacts and ideas throughout the career journey. This strategy, from Sacramento to their current role, has facilitated seamless transitions and provided valuable support and feedback.
Networking, Communication, Relationship Management, Professionalism, Public Relations
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Nicole Michel
Public Relations Consultant
A Global Medical Transportation Company
California State University Chico
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Creative Writing, Journalism
Healthcare, Medical & Wellness
Communication and Marketing
None Applicable
Video Highlights
1. Maintaining positive professional relationships is crucial for career advancement in PR.
2. The PR industry, while seemingly large, often operates as a small network of interconnected professionals.
3. Networking and leveraging existing contacts can lead to new opportunities and collaborations, such as finding skilled professionals or getting feedback on projects.
Transcript
What is one lesson that you've learned that has proven significant in your career?
Maintain relationships and always keep it professional, depending on where you work. PR can be either very large or very small. In Sacramento, where I started in PR, at any given agency, there's probably someone that I know or someone that knows someone I've worked with in the past. It's a very small, but still, at the same time, very large industry.
Maintaining positive relationships and always keeping things professional will enable you to kind of move seamlessly between different roles. I think maintaining the relationships that I have in PR, from my early days to now, have been very beneficial to me at different points in my career.
I still have contacts in the Sacramento area and I will call people up if I need something. For example, "Hey, do you know a good videographer?" Or they'll call me and say, "Do you know someone that does media interview training?" So, we're able to exchange contacts, but also exchange ideas. I have friends that look at my business's website now and provide feedback.
I think maintaining relationships is probably the biggest piece of advice that I would give to anyone starting in this career.