When you first enter college, the biggest piece of advice you are going to hear is “get involved.” As a freshman at Campus Life Night, I signed up for a bunch of different student organizations. I went to a handful of meetings for these various organizations to weed out the clubs I knew were not the right fit for me.
Read MoreWho’s Our Guest? Olivia Dolley, the previous host of PR Hangover, and now VP of Programming, joins us on this episode. The fitness loving and PR student lets us follow along on her journey, as she details her history with GVSU, PRSSA, and AdPR. She is currently an Intern at American Family Insurance (AmFam).
Read MoreWhen it comes to knowing your info about public relations, textbooks can only take you so far. While textbooks and time spent in the classroom can teach many valuable skills such as how to write a press release, plan a campaign, and evaluate strategies and tactics, soft skills are not found buried beneath pages of text.
Read MoreBalancing classes, extracurricular activities, and your social life as a college student is hard enough. Trying to focus on your future professional career while you’re still a young adult can be even harder to manage. Networking is a beneficial tool for individuals to interact in order to develop and advance their professional status.
Read MoreA blog discussing tips and tricks for staying on task and beating procrastination for college kids and remote or hybrid workers. Dealing with distractions and staying focused can be a challenge. However, with a few slight changes, you can stay productive and beat procrastination.
Read MoreWorking for a minor league team has come with many joyous moments, hard moments and the tools to think critically, quickly. Being an intern for the West Michigan Whitecaps has been an experience that I would recommend to any young professional.
Read MoreHindsight is 20/20, and that cannot be any more true. As a student, while tasked with the academic challenges faced at Grand Valley, we are faced with a lot of other obstacles that seem to lurk in the shadows, like time management, managing relationships, and creativity.
Read MoreYou Hold Yourself Back. Now when you read the subtitle you may think, “well duh.” I am here to not only tell you that you hold yourself back, but how to prevent you from doing so, especially when wanting to apply for a leadership role.
Read MoreAs a young professional, one of the most valuable things you can do to prepare for future success is to find yourself a mentor. I’ve leaned on my trusted mentors myself to help guide my early career decisions and navigate the daunting post-grad life that lies ahead.
Read MoreThe first few weeks of summer are often a time to decompress and reflect on the past year for many students. For me, this school year was one filled with change and self improvement. I can attribute a lot of that improvement to my time spent in GVPRSSA and GrandPR.
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