public relations
Jumpstart Your PR Career on April 3 in Seattle
Mar 11th
My favorite public relations event I went to in college was Public Relations Career Jumpstart, hosted in Seattle every year by the Puget Sound PRSA Chapter. PR Jumpstart 2010 is coming up soon, and if you’re a student or recent graduate looking to work in public relations and within driving distance of Seattle, you should definitely go. It’s on Saturday, April 3, at Seattle University.
Register at a discounted rate here before March 30.
This event is the most beneficial if you want to work in Seattle, but the stellar programming on job interviewing and public relations topics are a must-attend for people aspiring to work in public relations anywhere.
I especially recommend PR Jumpstart if you’re looking to network on behalf of your PRSSA Chapter. My 2008 PRSSA Regional Activity committee found both our keynote speaker, Kyle Warnick of Microsoft, and title sponsor, Owen Media, at PR Jumpstart 2008.
Chinese Social Media as an Educational Tool
Jan 24th
Social media is a good teaching aid not only in the United States but in China, especially for my generation. For my current teaching job, the two main social networking sites I use for education are Youku, one of China’s popular YouTube copycats, and QQ, specifically Q Zone.
A couple of months ago, I decided I needed to do some public relations for myself as a teacher. After having problems motivating the students in one of my classes, my Chinese friends suggested that I make myself seem like more of a friend to the students. I signed up for the most popular instant messenger client in China, QQ, specifically to communicate with students at my university. I also think this is a nice contact information alternative to my phone number, which many students I meet at campus events ask for.
One of QQ’s main benefits that I did not know about when I made this decision is that it’s a more comprehensive social application than simply an IM program. Everyone with a QQ account has an account on QQ’s social network, Q Zone.
The two main aspects of Q Zone I use are link sharing and notes. I use the link sharing primarily to humanize myself, by linking to online videos I like, for example. I use notes to suggest fun ways for students to improve their English, such as my favorite, appropriate English-language movies.
Before I started using QQ, I had already begun compiling playlists of music videos I like on Youku. After I joined QQ, I compiled a playlist of English-language music videos by artists who are popular among Chinese university students, all of which have English subtitles and some of which have both Chinese and English subtitles. I frequently refer students to this list both via QQ messages and in-class, and if I teach a song in an oral English class, it’s usually from this list.
“Russian Roulette” video from my Youku playlist “学习英语的音乐 (Music for Studying English)”
QQ is in Chinese, but I only write in English on QQ as a way to help my students. If I want to write something in Chinese online, I use 人人网校内(RenRenWangXiaoNei), China’s Facebook copycat that I joined shortly after arriving to practice my Chinese reading and writing. I don’t write much on Youku, but my playlist titles are usually bilingual or only in Chinese to make them search friendly to strangers.
My Youku profile
My Q Zone
My 人人网校内(RenRenWangXiaoNei) profile
UO PR Grads Who Now…Teach English in Korea
Oct 2nd
Since February of 2009, three of my fellow graduates from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication‘s public relations program have all begun teaching English in South Korea. All three students were interested in international cultures while in college and active in public relations on campus, specifically the Oregon Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. I felt the phenomenon was worth blogging about and interviewed them for this post.
Branden Johnson graduated in 2008. He served on the UO PRSSA Executive Board as PRSA Liason and directed our student-run firm, Allen Hall Public Relations, both during his final year.
Regina Mitchell also graduated in 2008. She participated in Allen Hall Public Relations and served as the guest services manager for the 2008 UO PRSSA Regional Activity.
Bryan Saxton graduated in 2009. He served as the 2008-2009 Web Chair on the UO PRSSA Executive Board and as 2007-2008 Public Relations Officer for International Student Association, one of the most active groups on campus.
Now, for the interview:
What made you decide to take up teaching English in Korea?
BJ: I was working at a small marketing agency in Portland last fall when I was laid off due to the increasingly dire economy. Teaching abroad was something I had wanted to do for years. Korea never would have been my first choice, but I found a Seattle-based recruiter on CraigsList, and had a job offer in less than a month. As opposed to a lot of other countries, the money and benefits in Korea are some of the best you’ll find right out of college. I have cheap health insurance, a generous salary, a pension plan, and my school pays my rent. They paid for my flight, helped me take alll of the necessary procedures to become a resident alien, and provided me with a furnished apartment in a nice area.
RM: I am going to be completely honest when I say the first thing that caught my eye about teaching in Korea was, well, the money. Korea is so wonderful and generous to their foreign teachers and offer the greatest benefits– free accomodation, high stipend for enrollment and finished contracts and a solid salary. Also, I figured it would be more worthwhile to immerse myself into a country I knew little about. I always wanted to travel and so all of this was made possible with the program I entered!
BS: MONEY! That, and the opportunity to travel. This is the most cost-effective way I know to run around Asia. I also have a lot of friends in South Korea, and it will be nice to reconnect with them. Other reasons include: living in a big city, adventure, doing something with my life that I didn’t see myself doing 5 years ago, ect.
Do you think your education in the J-school/PR program has helped you in your new job? If so, how?
BJ: I think my journalism degree has definitely helped in terms of being an effective English teacher. I am confident in my writing and comprehension of grammar, which were both fine-tuned in the J school. I also think that my leadership roles on campus contributed to my teaching abilities. Classrooms — especially kindergarten classrooms — are dynamic places that present unique and often challenging situations. A teacher has to be flexible yet maintain control and respect. It’s not easy, but my college experience prepared me in ways I never expected.
BJ: I think my journalism degree has definitely helped in terms of being an effective English teacher. I am confident in my writing and comprehension of grammar, which were both fine-tuned in the J school. I also think that my leadership roles on campus contributed to my teaching abilities. Classrooms — especially kindergarten classrooms — are dynamic places that present unique and often challenging situations. A teacher has to be flexible yet maintain control and respect. It’s not easy, but my college experience prepared me in ways I never expected.
RM: If there are a few things that I can thank the Journalism school for, it’s definitely the writing and public speaking practice. I’ve been challenged a few times on things such as English grammar, and I continually have to present lessons that are exciting. As a public relations major, it was essential to impress a client and perform to your best while connecting to your audience. The same is true with teaching.
BS: Not sure yet as I haven’t started working. But I’m pretty sure our command of grammar, punctuation and writing conventions will be helpful because we’ll be able to teach those to students.
What do you want to do after your contract is up (if you know)?
BJ: I’m still undecided about my future after next February. I met my boyfriend here, and a lot of the decision depends on his plans. I would be willing to stay another year or two, but I’m also anxious to get back to the States. I want to go back to get my master’s in elementary education, but first I have to do another year of undergrad to finish some prerequisites. Coming to Korea has taught me to let life take you where it will. This has been an amazing experience and I don’t want it to end. But, it has prepared me to take the next challenging steps in my life and career, and for that I am excited to move forward.
RM: After the contract, I will move back to Seattle and spend some time thinking of my next steps. During that “down” time, I could see myself either coming back or continuing ESL teaching abroad in another country. There’s a lot out there!
BS: Not sure yet. Work in PR? That’s what I want now, but that could change in a year or two. Right now I just want to travel, save up a bit of money and have some fun.
Some final words from Branden:
“Get out there and find what makes you happy. I graduated with a job in marketing and now I teach kindergarten halfway around the world. And I love it.”
Nciku.com is Great, (and so is its PR)
Aug 19th
Nciku is a Web site worth blogging about. It’s a popular site for native English speakers learning Mandarin and vice versa. I’m highlighting what I view as their excellent Web development efforts, public relations efforts, and a little bit of both.
Web development efforts:
- A dictionary with Chinese character handwriting recognition
- Abilities for users to add vocabulary words and sample conversations to the site as well as ask each other language-related questions
- Personal vocabulary lists that the site automatically updates every time a user looks up a new word
Public relations efforts:
- Participation in popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
- An accurate, succinct, catchy core message: “More than a dictionary.”
A little bit of both:
- A blog that people actually want to read daily
- An on-site social network
- Multiple levels of involvement for users to choose from (kind of like President Obama’s online election campaign headquarters)
How did I find out about Nciku? Someone on a Facebook group for my university’s Chinese-language students recommended it as a good online dictionary, specifically mentioning its hand-drawing tool. I’ve been using it as my primary Chinese-to-English dictionary ever since, and have recommended it to a few friends, who are happy with it as well. Nciku’s public relations efforts would be fruitless if it wasn’t a Web site that satisfied its users.
Image taken from Nciku.com without permission
Niche Social Network Psychology
Mar 5th
Humans have a psychological need to feel like a part of a group of people like them, a need that Robert D. Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone, The Collapse and Revival of the American Community” argues is disappearing in the United States. Part of the reason people do things like go to art gallery openings and conferences is not just to learn something new, but to be around people who share their passions.
What does this look like in social networking? It can be groups, either official or unofficial, on social networking sites, or it can be entire social networking sites for people with a niche interest. Currently most niche social networking sites are hosted on Ning.com (now not accessible within China), a site where users can create their own social networks. However, some niche sites are not affiliated with Ning, such as Brazen Careerist. These might eventually go from niche to broad the way Facebook did and Twitter is beginning to.
I’m a member of several niche social networking sites, but the ones I feel the strongest group affiliations with are, in this order:
- Twitter – going mainstream, but started as geeks, bloggers and public relations people
- Brazen Careerist – Generation Y members who care about their careers and blogging
- Artreview.com – people who are really into visual art
- PROpenMic – started for PR students and faculty; now includes practitioners
It’s important for companies, organizations, agencies, whoever to participate in niche social networks when trying to reach the people who will likely champion their brand or product. An alternative to joining an existing network is to build a new one. This requires considerable time and investment, but can pay off if you do it right.
A popular, useful social network associated with your brand provides excellent viral marketing communications. You should only build one if you are ready to provide extensive opportunities to interact with each other about topics other than your brand. You should not use your social network just to invite people to your concerts or display your blog feed, for example.
Some commendable social networks built with public relations purposes in mind:
- MyBO – Part of Barack Obama’s campaign, allowed users multiple levels of involvement
- ArtReview.com – Built by a magazine called Art Review using Ning. The site makes it easy to read the magazine through it, but most of its content is art lovers interacting with each other.
- MINI Space – Built by MINI for young, urban professionals in art, design and fashion. The branding connection is these people maximize small spaces creatively the same way MINI cars do.
8 Things I Just Learned About Building Participation in the Arts
Feb 7th
I just read “A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts“, which offers interesting research insights into arts participation strategy, mostly for nonprofit arts institutions in the United States in a variety of artistic genres.
A few revelations from this I hope to integrate into my marketing and public relations:
- They suggest that “building art partipication” is the new word for “audience development.” Audience development implies that people only participate in art via attending live performances or visiting exhibitions. They define art participation to include hands-on, such as making a sculpture or playing a musical instrument; through media, such as watching an opera on television; and live attendance.
- More people in the U.S. attend live performances every year than sporting events.
- On a macro scale, the crossover effect is a myth. An amateur ballet dancer is not much more likely to attend a live ballet performance than a non-dancer, and someone who attends ballet performances is not much more likely to attend concerts than someone who doesn’t attend either.
- I already knew that education was a huge factor in determining arts participation, but I didn’t know it was the single most important factor.
- Art managers need to make their product accessable via media to people with flexible and unpredictable schedules. Three quarters of people in the U.S. consume art through media.
- Opportunities for art enthusiasts to interact with each other and be part of groups of other art enthusiasts fulfills a major psychological need in U.S. society.
- Unless you have way more resources than a typical nonprofit art organization, it’s pretty hard to simultaneously deepen, broaden and diversify your audience.
- In order to get why people with more education in and experience with art enjoy it, think about the analogy to sports. People are much more likely to enjoy a baseball game if they know the rules and background about the players, and they usually go for the first time with a family member or friend who invites them.
You can read the whole document here.
I’m a Star
Feb 5th
Jessica Lomelin interviewed me on my experience working in China for a blog post, which was mentioned to a large lecture full of International Communication students at the University of Oregon. Jessica and I got to know each other last year from working in the same groups in two of our public relations classes and serving on the Executive Board of the University of Oregon Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Chapter together. She’s now a team assistant at the Seattle office of Weber Shandwick. You can read the post on her blog here. For those of you behind the Great Firewall of China, I’ve copied and pasted the full text below:
One of the things I love most about public relations is that it is a limitless job and thrives for people that are curious, open-minded and eager. Public relations although primarily conducted in the United States, requires people to think globally, wether in regards to campaigns, event planning or media relations. We most often see Senior-level practitioners have the chance to work abroad, but I always love re-telling stories of young pr practitioners who took their chances and began their careers…abroad.
I interviewed Beth Evans, a former classmate of mine at the University of Oregon, who upon graduation, decided to move to Beijing, China. She has been there for about six months and has already fully immersed herself in the culture and has been a valuable tool to many companies she’s worked for.
Q: What influenced you to work abroad?
A: I can’t remember a specific time when I decided I wanted to work abroad. I studied abroad in Beijing in the fall of 2005 and didn’t want to leave, which is when working abroad became a definite possibility. Since then, which country I worked at became a low priority as the industry, city size, and job duties were all more important.
Q: How much did networking come into play when finding a job? What was more influential, your network or your skill set?
A: Networking was definitely more important, especially because in Chinese culture, relationships are everything. The way I got the job was through my college roommate that asked a friend who worked at a famous gallery in Beijing if he knew of any openings. The friend knew my boss, and my roommate guided me through the interview and application process. Most recent Chinese graduates have no work or internship experience, and I was a native English speaker.
Q: What was expected of you upon being hired?
A: It’s a bit difficult to say what was expected of me because I was trying to interpret this through the language barrier. Probably the most important expectation was that my English proofreading skills would be excellent as that was my biggest advantage over a Chinese employee.
Q: What qualities do you think employers look for that Americans have that would be an asset to their organization?
A: By far the most attractive quality Americans have to employers abroad is a native English speaking ability. I know this is not true in all countries, but Chinese people think American English, especially the West Coast accent, is the best kind of English. At both my jobs I’ve held in China, I’ve been the only employee who only speaks one language fluently, but I’ve also been the only native English speaker. This skill, combined with my journalism degree, has allowed me to write or be the last reviewer in all important English-language materials.
Q: What have you learned from working abroad that you couldn’t have learned in the US?
When I was in the U.S., I heard many professionals and academics talk a lot about the importance of learning how to work in a global economy, but I only got to hear the American perspective. Here, I get to find out what people from other countries – and not just China, because I’ve worked with people from South Korea, Canada, and France, as well – think it means to be a global candidate. For most people I’ve met here, this means being able to speak at least two languages fluently.
Q: What do you suggest someone do when wanting to work abroad?
A: My biggest piece of advice for people who want to work abroad is to meet and stay in contact with people who have lived abroad. Some of my mentors didn’t understand why I wanted to move to another country immediately after graduation, and working abroad has been challenging, both before I got here and now. However, spending time with friends who moved away from their home countries at age 18, or going to UO International Career Networking Committee (ICNC) events where I’d meet alumni who worked abroad.
In a close second is that I strongly suggest that people improve their language skills as much as possible before they begin work abroad. I only took two years of Chinese before working here, and while my Chinese has improved a little by living and working here, it improved much more efficiently when I studied it in the classroom, even in the U.S.
Q: Any fun characteristics about working in China you can provide?
A: I think it’s fun how international the workforce in Beijing is. Most office workers here speak at least two languages fluently, and many companies have employees from at least three countries. Chinese companies also find a lot of excuses for employees to eat, drink and be merry together. After major gallery exhibition openings, the president would pay for all the artists and staff to go out to a nice dinner and karaoke to celebrate. The president also took me out to Pizza Hut – a really nice, expensive restaurant chain in China – to celebrate my joining the company.
Q: How was it working in Beijing during the Olympics?
A: The Olympics actually affected my daily life and entertainment a lot more than my job duties. People in Beijing think that it’s not cool to be interested in both art and politics or both art and sports, so my coworkers were extremely apathetic about the Olympics, and our gallery was even closed to change exhibitions during the Olympics. I wrote a post on the Olympics’ relationship to the art district I worked in. My current job is at a small agency that did a ton of events during the Olympics and even had the International Olympic Committee has a client, and I’ve heard all these great stories. I’ve been meaning to interview my boss for a blog post on it.
If you’d like to find more information on working in China, visit Beth’s PRSSA country profile post!
Where Art and Public Relations Intersect
Dec 17th
One of the most beloved instructors in my major Kelli Matthews wrote a blog post titled “What if You Don’t Have a PR Degree?” designed to give people in this situation advice on how to enter the field. I’m in the opposite situation, majoring in public relations but not working in it afterward.
At the age of 18, I decided on public relations as the particular skillset that I could bring to the arts world. In my public relations classes, I learned how to write much better than most adult Americans, even college graduates. I learned how to put together a killer PowerPoint and present it. I learned how to work in groups from the planning to executing of projects. I learned how to cold email and call people. I learned how to research efficiently and comprehensively. I learned how to network. I didn’t learn all this because I was an exceptional student; these were simply graduation requirements for everyone in the public relations sequence.
Many recent graduates complain that their classwork in college has nothing to do with their current jobs. However, I use the skills mentioned above at work at H!TANG & China Creative Connections nearly every day. Additionally, my degree in journalism with an emphasis in public relations has gained me on-the-job respect for my writing and grammar in a field where employees come from a variety of educational backgrounds, at both my current position and at the art gallery.
Arts and administration classes at the University of Oregon can also supplement public relations coursework. This department offers a certificate in Meeting and Event Management and a class called Marketing the Arts. Marketing the Arts was one of my favorite courses of college, and I used coursework in Meeting and Event Management to help me plan the 2008 University of Oregon PRSSA Regional Activity.
It’s pretty easy, even in a small market, to find internships and student leadership positions where art and public relations intersect. For me, these were:
Marketing and Public Relations Intern at Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Marketing and Public Relations Intern at Seattle Theatre Group
Public Relations Intern at Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA)
Other UO PR students and grads who are combining arts and PR:
American expatriates in Beijing’s arts who did not major in PR but use it in their jobs:
Sarabeth Berman at LDTX
Kerry Holahan at International Festival Chorus
Chinese Art Organization’s Press Release
Jul 6th
I’ve become someone fascinated with Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, located about a five-minute walk from my work and known as the first non-profit art organization in China. Here’s a copy of its press release on changing chief curators, followed by the English version from Google Translate. The translation’s definitely not perfect, but you get the idea.
新闻稿敬请发布20080513
尤伦斯当代艺术中心首席策展人、副馆长秦思源将离职并开展他的独立策展人生涯，郭晓彦继任为中心的首席策展人
尤伦斯当代艺术中心馆长杰罗姆·桑斯宣布原UCCA副馆长兼首席策展人秦思源将离开艺术中心。从开馆至今，秦思源为这一座非营利机构提供了关键性的贡献以及努力，并且建设了完备且具高度专业的艺术团队，为艺术中心在中国的发展成功地规划了一系列的展览、艺术教育课程，以及相关的推广工作。
关于离开尤伦斯当代艺术中心的决定，秦思源表示是源于他自我个人职业规划的考虑。秦思源表示：“我希望下一步能以一个独立策展人以及艺术家的身份，与其他艺术家与艺术机构更紧密地合作……，我在UCCA的工作经验，对我是弥足珍贵的。”
新任首席策展人郭晓彦，早在尤伦斯当代艺术中心开幕之前（2007年9月），便以策展人的身份加入其中。她将为艺术中心发展成为中国当代创作发声场，发挥重要的作用。郭晓彦曾参与中国首家民间美术馆“上河美术馆”（成都）的组建和管理工作。2002年任广东美术馆“广州三年展”办公室副主任，策划人，策划、组织很多重要当代艺术展览和活动，2005年11月任第二届“广州三年展”策划人之一。2004年，郭晓彦作为助理策展人在法国里昂当代艺术馆策划 “中国年”展览。
杰罗姆·桑斯表示，尤伦斯当代艺术中心感激秦思源的卓越贡献。在他所完成工作的基础上，郭晓彦将继续大力发展艺术中心的各项艺术项目，深入进行与国际艺术领域的对话。
作为一个国际化的平台，尤伦斯当代艺术中心展示来自中国当代艺术最新创作的初衷将一直延续。在未来数月，中心的艺术计划将增加一系列与中国艺术家合作的全新项目。
尤伦斯当代艺术中心是一座非盈利的综合艺术中心，由收藏家尤伦斯夫妇出资建造，2007年11月正式开幕。艺术中心推出包括知名和年轻艺术家的展览，致力于打造一个通过教育、研究项目分享当代艺术体验的平台。
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Please press release issued 20080513
You Lunsi Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Center, Qin, deputy director of the source will carry out his resignation and an independent curator career, Guo Xiaoyan successor as the center’s chief curator
You Lunsi Contemporary Art Center curator of the UCCA杰罗姆桑斯announced that Deputy Director and Chief Curator Qin source will leave the Arts Centre. From the opening date, Qin source for a non-profit organizations that provide a crucial contribution and efforts, and building a comprehensive Juju highly professional team of art for art center in China’s development and success of planning a series of exhibitions, Arts education courses, and the related promotional efforts.
You Lunsi left on Contemporary Arts Centre’s decision, Qin said the source of self-originated from his personal career planning considerations. Qin source said: “I hope that the next step can be an independent curator and artist’s identity, with other artists and art institutions work more closely……, I UCCA of work experience, I was invaluable.”
The newly appointed Chief Curator Guo Xiaoyan, as early as You Lunsi before the opening of Contemporary Art Centre (September 2007), then to join the identity of the curator. She Arts Centre will develop into China’s contemporary creative voice market, an important role to play. Guo Xiaoyan have been involved in China’s first folk art museums “on the River Art Gallery” (Chengdu) the establishment and management. In 2002 the Guangdong Museum of Art, “the Guangzhou Triennial” deputy director of the office, planning, planning, organizing many important contemporary art exhibitions and activities, in November 2005 of the second session, “the Guangzhou Triennial” planning one. In 2004, Guo Xiaoyan as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France planning “China Year” exhibition.
杰罗姆桑斯 said, You Lunsi Contemporary Arts Centre grateful Qin’s outstanding contribution to the source. In his work done on the basis of Guo Xiaoyan will continue to vigorously develop the arts centre of the arts projects, in-depth and international artistic dialogue.
As an international platform You Lunsi Contemporary Art Center display contemporary art from China as the creative mind would have been extended. In the next few months, the center of a series of art projects will increase cooperation with the Chinese artists of the new project.
You Lunsi Contemporary Art Center is a non-profit integrated arts centre, funded by collectors You Lunsi couples construction, in November 2007 was officially opened. Arts Centre launched, including well-known young artists and the exhibitions, to create a through education, research projects to share the experience of contemporary art platform.
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China likes PR graduates
Jul 2nd
I’ve been in Beijing for about six days and 22 hours so far. The reason I haven’t blogged yet is partially due to technical difficulties, but also because I think it’s wise for me to allow time for me to collect my thoughts before jumping on particular topics because I experience about as much in a day here as I do in a week in the United States.
One topic that is particularly relevant to both my Ning networks, PROpenMic and Considerations: The Art in Marketing is how locals view my major. I was worried that I might face a little workplace discrimination because I majored in neither art nor Chinese. However, I’ve found the opposite is true. Everyone I’ve met has said that public relations is a very good major. My employer’s president remarked that he’s working on a project to open a huge building that will require a lot of public relations work.
My supervisors seem to think my most valuable human capital is in my native English speaking ability, public relations education and internship experience. I’ll eventually become fluent in Chinese by living here, and I can learn about Chinese contemporary art by working here and visiting Web sites my direct supervisor suggests.
Of course, all my friends and colleagues either study at the Central University for Nationalities or work in the fabulous 798 Art Zone, so I can’t speak for the entire Chinese population. However, this country does appear to be undergoing essentially an industrial revolution, which creates an exponential demand for public relations. I learned in my college classes that the public relations major began in the U.S. and is much rarer in other countries.
Do you want to get a job in China? I’d say it’s hard to find a public relations job here unless you have a strong network related to China in your home country. I got mine because my randomly assigned roommate was from Beijing and knew someone who was prestigious within this art community. (So much for all my active networking in college, right?) My friend and former classmate Jessica Lomelin found in her job search that many worldwide firms’ offices prefer to hire locals so they won’t have to deal with immigration processes.
I suggest that you either get involved with your college’s Chinese student group or move here to teach English. One of my friends gets paid 200 Chinese dollars (30 USD) an hour to teach Korean children here full-time. Through these tactics, you’ll develop the necessary network to break into the public relations market. Lastly, make sure people know you want to work here! The day I graduated, I received a job offer out of the blue for an excellent job in China from a student looking to replace himself, which I had to decline because I already had this one. The reason? Pat Curtin, Ph.D., knew I had a strong interest in working in China and referred me to the e-mailer.
Your comments are welcome. What are your experiences looking for and working in jobs outside your home country?
*Note: This is the same post that appeared on my PROpenMic profile’s blog on July 1, 2008.
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