While Twitter's reliability issues are no secret, they offer significant challenges for increasing number of communities that host live chats using Twitter as a platform. On Wednesday, April 14th , when Twitter problems threatened to disrupt the conversation between a special panel of experts in PR recruiting the #PRStudChat community, a quick decision was made to postpone the event until Wednesday, April 21st.
The April 21st #PRStudChat will begin at noon eastern and focus on helping spring graduates with their job search. Along with the #PRStudChat professionals and educators, students will engage with the full original panel, as well as an additional bonus panelist, including:
- Jessica Porterfield, a recruiter with Fleishman Hilliard. Jessica has eight years of experience in the Biotech/Pharma industry and now recruiting in PR.
- Jessica Bayer, a Public Relations recruiter at Qorvis Communications. Jessica specializes inPublic Affairs, Government, Crisis, Interactive, Creative, Consumer and International relations.
- Laurie Bartolo, a recruiter at Ogilvy. Laurie’s career spans almost 20 years and covers a wide geography, from Florida to Washington DC to New Mexico and now Michigan.
- Lindsay Olson, a recruiter, founder and partner with Paradigm Staffing who spends her days helping companies build public relations and communications teams nationwide.
- Rachel Kay , President and found of RKPR. Rachel, whose firm is currently hiring, is an award-winning public relations expert with experience spanning a multitude of industries including consumer technology, food, beauty and fashion, the Web and more.
- Kate DiChristopher, Human Resources Manager at Marina Maher Communications
As planned, s
tudent guest moderator Brittany James, will join co founders Deirdre Breakenridge and Valerie Simon, to facilitate the discussion, which is open to all PR students, professionals and educators. More information about the conversation (including planned questions) can be found in this post on Breakenridge’s blog, PR 2.0 Strategies.For additional information about participating in #PRStudChat, please refer to the #PRStudChat Guide to Twitter Chats. Highlights and takeaways from the chat will be available here
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