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You, On Paper (and Online)
Constructing a public relations portfolio
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What is a portfolio?
• It’s a compendium of materials that demonstrate your expertise in public relations
• It’s used to show potential employers that you know what you’re doing
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What should it look like?
Clean and crisp is more important than new or expensive
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Let your career goals guide you
• A portfolio for someone working in the arts should look quite different from on for a person in banking• Both exterior and interior• Color choice• Font• Elements included
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What does the employer expect?
• Review basic skills required in job postings to see what employers are looking for
• Emphasize basic PR tools that you will actually use in your first job
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What goes in the portfolio?
• Resume (CV) • Generic reference letters from employers,
teachers, volunteer supervisors, etc.• Writing and design samples
• It’s okay to include items created in class• “We know they’re students.”
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Documentation of work
• Anything can be documented • Club newsletter showing your activities• Special event on paper:
• Checklists
• Event planning materials
• Fliers or invitations
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But most importantly…
• RESULTS: Not just that you wrote or designed PR materials, but what happened because they were distributed• Pictures of a special event to document
attendance• News stories resulting from media relations• Evaluation materials (survey results, etc.)• Web copy (links from blogs or Web sites, etc.)
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Selecting items
• Try to include a variety of materials, preferably in their original form• Print, Internet and broadcast• Research, strategic thinking/planning• Variety of publics targeted, positions held
• Choose only your best• One great news release is better than one great
one plus two okay ones
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How should I organize it?
• Room for creativity• By job/position held• By item type (i.e., PSAs in one section,
events in another)• You can also customize it for each interview
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Organization is vital
• Organize it so someone could figure it out if you weren’t there to explain
• Most employers just skim, so you should highlight what’s most important• Tabs/section breaks, table of contents• First page of each section• Headlines, attention-getters
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Appearance is also vital
• Do:• Clean, crisp pages (use protectors)• Clean copy
• Don’t• Poor design• Anything that will detract from skimming• Crazy fonts, clip art, frills
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Electronic portfolios
• Show off your online skills• Convert writing/design samples to PDF files• Links to news coverage based on your media
relations activities• Remove personal information such as address
and telephone numbers (yours, references, etc.)• Social media resume
• Links to blog, Web site, Twitter account, podcasts or other online activities
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What do I do with it now?
• Take it with you on every interview• If you have an electronic portfolio, bring a
paper version to the interview
• Ask the interviewer if they would like to see it• They won’t necessarily ask you to see it• They assume you will bring one if you have
one
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Showing it off
• Don’t just shove it at them and sit silently• Use it as a chance to link your experience
with their needs• Narrate what they’re seeing• “You were asking about my experience with
newsletters. Here’s an example of an article I wrote for my club’s newsletter. I also took the pictures.”
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Takeaways
• Make photocopies of the very best items, put in a packet that you can leave behind
• Can include a page with link to your electronic portfolio or other links
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I got a job!
• Now what do you do with your portfolio?• Keep it• Keep adding to it• Reorganize as needed – the beauty of page
protectors• PRSA suggests using it for
• Negotiations (raise, promotion)
• Scholarship, grant, bonus applications