Remember that reporter who you ticked off when you kept calling to ask, “Can you tell me when the news release I sent you will be printed?”<\/p>\n
Or the editor who won’t talk to you again because you promised him exclusivity on an article, then turned around and gave it to a competing magazine?<\/p>\n
Both of them might help decide whether you get your next job in PR. That’s because people who make hiring decisions at PR agencies and elsewhere are turning to a helpful\u00a0source to find out whether you’ll do a good job in media relations: the media people who you contact day in and day out in your current job.<\/p>\n
In the “Expert Advice” column in the January issue of PR Week,<\/a>\u00a0 Agnes Gioconda, executive vice president, senior partner and “chief talent officer” of Fleishman-Hillard<\/a>, says the agency goes to reporters not only as a source of job candidates, but also for references.<\/p>\n “Reporters can offer insight into candidates’ news sense, depth of industry knowledge, and responsiveness, as well as their overall professionalism,” she said.<\/p>\n When I worked as a newspaper editor, I can’t ever remember taking calls from PR people who wanted to know what it was like to work with people they considered hiring. But media people are such a logical source of references that I’m surprised more PR agencies aren’t taking that approach when hiring.<\/p>\n It’s just one more reason, as the old saying goes,\u00a0not to pick a fight with people who buy their ink by the barrel.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember that reporter who you ticked off when you kept calling to ask, “Can you tell me when the news release I sent you will be printed?” Or the editor who won’t talk to you again because you promised him exclusivity on an article, then turned around and gave it to a competing magazine? Both\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[29],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40952,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/40952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}