If you're looking to hire a publicist, if you're a PR newbie or if you're evaluating your commitment to the field, here are some things to seriously think about....
Obvious Signs of a Great Publicist/PR Professional:
- Great listeners (Listen with intent to understand)
- Exceptional writers
- Strategists who will roll up their sleeves & jump head first into their bag/toolbox of tactics
- News junkies
- Highly creative (Thinks outside of the box & has fun doing it)
- Great communicators (Can hold an engaging conversation with anybody)
- Can't (and shouldn't) live without social networks
- Attention to detail is insane...On a scale of 1-10, it's about a 25
- Understand that PR is NOT a 9-5 job