Public Relations & Fundraising Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities designed to create or maintain a favorable public image or raise issue awareness for their organization or client; or if engaged in fundraising, plan, direct, or coordinate activities to solicit and maintain funds for special projects or nonprofit organizations.
Also called: Account Supervisor, Development Director, Public Relations Director, Public Relations Manager (PR Manager)
Knowledge:
- sales and marketing
- customer service
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- come up with lots of ideas
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Persistence
Technology:
Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
Desktop publishing software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Distiller
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
Video creation and editing software
- Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects
- YouTube
