BMA Event in Milwaukee

The BMA event in Milwaukee was an amazing event and I am very glad that I had the opportunity to experience it. I spent the night being interviewed in a lighting round by Jim Bernthal, Laura Russart, Terry Hoffman, and Sarah Strauss, who are professionals in the field of Communications. I also ate pizza with fellow classmates, had my resume looked over by Tiffany Weigland and learned about how I can use social media to find internships and even a job from Tom Sanders, Anthony Piwarun, and Haley Landsman. My favorite part of the evening was definitely the interviews. I felt that the interview part is definitely my strongest area because I am so personable and easy to talk to. My interviews said that I have a great personality, great hand gestures, that I am a very quick thinker which allows me to have an answer to every question and that I should keep up the energy. They threw questions at me such as, “What do you do to give back to the community?” “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” “You are so young, how do plan to make up for your lack experience?” and “Why should we hire you?” Questions like these forced me to think quicker and be better prepared for an interview in the real world. Tiffany Weigland was also very constructive of my resume, she suggested I make it have more personality and bullet everything. She also said that having an objective right there on top was a good idea. 

• Jim Bernthal is the president of TopFloorTechnologies, check out there site by clicking http://www.topfloortech.com/
• Laura Russart is the marketing director for Present Music, to learn more about the company you can go to http://www.presentmusic.org/
• Terry Hoffman is the Director of Building Automation Systems Marketing for Johnson Controls and you can learn more about them by going to http://www.johnsoncontrols.com/publish/us/en.html
• Tiffany Weigland works for Rite Hite Corporation and to learn more about them visit http://www.ritehite.com/index.php
• Tom Sanders, Anthony Piwarun, and Haley Landsman work for Fullhouse and do a lot of work for Johnson Controls. You can follow all three of them on Twitter @stratocasting @apiwarun @haleylandsman

To find out more information on the BMA event in Milwaukee, check out this link.  http://www.bma-milwaukee.org/

Check out photos from the event http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmamilwaukee

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The "PR" Student

My name is Carolyn and I am a sophomore majoring in Public Relations at UW-Whitewater. I went from being a Psychology major to a Broadcast Journalism major to a PR major. Right now my goal is to find something I love and something that I am good at. Psychology was not the field for me. I found it boring and I think the only reason I picked that in the first place was because I know there is a high demand and they get paid pretty well. I loved Broadcast and I think that being in front of the camera is where is belong. I had the position of one of the panelists on “The Blender” which is kind of like the show “Chelsea Lately” on E. That show is my personality- celebrity gossip is what I love- especially when it is making fun of what celebrities do. I guess I’m such a loud mouth and so opinionated that it worked. So you may ask why did I switch to PR? Well, I kind of realized that broadcast is a really hard field to get into and I would have to leave Wisconsin and move somewhere like Chicago, New York, L.A. and I don’t think I’d be able to leave my family, especially my mom. I feel like I might be better off in something that is more stable like PR. So I guess this is kind of a trial run to see if I’m good at it and more importantly, if I like it. So right now I am learning about what it is that we do: managing and maintaing relationships between organizations and its publics. As of right now I’ve made a Fact Sheet for Tomorrow’s Hope and I am working on my resume. So far, I enjoy the work and it is something different and I guess I will just have to see where this goes. Ideally, what I have in my mind, is I want to do is PR for celebrities or PR work in the fashion industry.