Public Relations Specialists
Engage in promoting or creating an intended public image for individuals, groups, or organizations. May write or select material for release to various communications media.
Also called: Account Executive, Public Affairs Specialist, Public Information Officer, Public Relations Specialist (PR Specialist)
Knowledge:
- sales and marketing
- customer service
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- understanding people's reactions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Persistence
- Cooperation
- Stress Tolerance
Technology:
Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
Web page creation and editing software
- Facebook
- Podcasting software
Web platform development software
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Hypertext markup language HTML