PR Start by Nick Lucido

I’ve been following the millennial discussion for a while. There’s been a lot of good perspectives, especially from Bill Sledzik and Todd Defren. After reading Todd’s post on loyalty, I figured I could offer my perspective since I’ve experienced this throughout college. I started working at The State News about three weeks after I started [...]

There has been a slew of articles and posts lately about unpaid internships, and it appears this topic is only snowballing. On Friday, there was a thoughtful article in the New York Times questioning whether the growth of unpaid internships in the past few years has been legal. It’s a discussion that has been occurring [...]

Disclosure: I’m a big fan of Heather Huhman’s work to connect people to the entry level job arena. I received a free e-copy of this book and this is the review of that book. Let’s be honest: there are a million job search tools and guides out there for new grads and those looking to [...]

If you’ve ever had a negative internship experience, have you ever wondered why it was so negative? Was it entirely your employer’s fault you didn’t get the experience you were looking for? I wrote a post last year about an ad agency intern who quit her internship because she was having a bad experience. While [...]

One of the perils of having a lot of PR student connections in my own network, especially lately, is being bombarded with Facebook fan page suggestions for a lot of junk I’m not really interested in. I don’t mean to sound rude, but I think this is one of the negative aspects of having an [...]

Though I don’t consider myself a lucky person, I really landed the jackpot nearly one year ago when I applied for and received the Daniel J. Edelman/PRSSA award. The award contains a monetary scholarship as well as a three-month internship in one of Edelman‘s U.S. offices. For a broke college kid, that’s pretty much the [...]

Last week, I was on a panel with some fellow students in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University. The topic started off on paid vs. unpaid internships, but it spun off in several directions, one of those being the difference between big city and local internships. Personally, I’ve done both. [...]

I’ve been working for the past three years at The State News, Michigan State University‘s newspaper. It’s  a particularly interesting time to be at a newspaper, especially with a public relations background, but I’ve found that the skill sets in a sales job translate well into a public relations job. Here are 10 ways you [...]

If you think the recession is over and jobs are everywhere, you need to think again. As if the class of 2009 didn’t have a hard enough time finding a job, predictions for 2010 are just as bleak. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (and via Culpwrit), U.S. employers plan to hire [...]

Though it sounds brash, I think it’s the wrong mindset to “officially” start the job search. Sure, you can sit down and think, apply for things and make a plan. But let me ask you a question: Shouldn’t you always be on the job search? In some fields, “starting” a job search is the traditional way [...]