Guest Speaker: Amy Paul

Last week Wednesday we had a guest speaker in our PR 2 Tactics class, Amy Paul. She is a recent graduate of UW-Whitewater and shared a very informative and helpful presentation! She gave a PowerPoint about where she went after graduation and how she got to where she is today.

Paul graduated in 2011 and majored in Public Relations. What was interesting is that she mentioned she was originally a dance major and then changed when she realized how much she loved writing. She started took a position at the Milwaukee County Executive Office as a public relations assistant. She had a lot of tasks to accomplish such as planning and carrying out major county events and administering all social media efforts.

After the Milwaukee County Executive Office, Paul got a job at Bottom Line Marketing & Public Relations as a PR assistant. She explained that her job requires a lot of writing. She spends most of her time throughout the day writing, planning, making press releases etc.
After Bottom Line Marketing & PR, Paul got a job at Ascedia where she currently is working as an Interactive Account Coordinator.

Paul went on to talk about what helped her receive these jobs. I found it extremely interesting she got an internship with the Milwaukee Admirals. She stressed that this unpaid internship helped her greatly and she is still closely connected with her boss to this day. She also stressed how important it is to ask and reach out for more responsibilities from your internship bosses. Paul said before she left for the day she would ask her boss if there was anything else that needed done before she left and he was more than happy to give her a task, but it also showed that she is willing and hard-working.

In college, Paul joined clubs such as PRSSA and was very involved. She also had an internship at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

I was very inspired by her presentation and learned a lot from Amy Paul. I plan to take her tips and reflect them on myself to grow as a PR professional some day.