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More BME PR practitioners – and one BME Prime Minister

by Guest July 26, 2010
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by Gabriel St Aimee, Intern at Northern Lights PR
Without intending to evangelise, PR is needed for the BME community, not just for diversity but for the industry – despite the current debate.
PR could be used to alleviate the overly saturated careers, which the BME community is drawn to. Law is just one example of an [...]

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Skills 4 Work or Skills 4 Life?

by Guest July 22, 2010
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by Liane Clarke, Intern at Northern Lights PR
The final week of the Internship and as we prepare for our final presentations to Northern Rail, Hallmark, Bradford School of Management and Northern Lights, each of us is reflecting upon the internship and our experiences. From the beginning we have encountered a schedule filled with workshops and [...]

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Run a dynamic internship – without the resources of a FTSE 100 corporate

by Victoria Tomlinson July 20, 2010
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It is Northern Lights PR’s 20th anniversary this year. To celebrate we wanted to do something new and different that reflected our values – had heart, made a difference and shared our PR skills.
When Heather McGregor of Taylor Bennett told me about their Brunswick Internship we knew this was it.  We wanted to run the [...]

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Six tips on networking from the industry experts!

by Guest July 14, 2010
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by Nafisa Shafiq, Intern at Northern Lights PR
Another week of the internship has passed and this week the session that has interested me most was based on networking. I’ve not had any ‘real’ experience of networking, and Victoria Tomlinson’s do’s and don’ts have all been useful.
In general, like many others I believed networking was all [...]

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8 Do’s and Don’ts in an interview

by Guest July 7, 2010
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The possible beginning of a career….
by Mohammed Waheed, Intern at Northern Lights PR

The Northern Lights PR internship intrigued me and I felt it was an opportunity that was not to be missed.  The interview went well, however, I expected rejection as I wasn’t a Bradford University student but hey presto, I was accepted!! I was [...]

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The right internship to increase your employability in PR

by Claude Peters May 4, 2010
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I knew that graduating in 2009 was going to be difficult, and my best options were either to look at doing a master’s degree, or to find a good internship or graduate training programme. I favoured the first option at first because I couldn’t find an internship that interested me, but that changed when I [...]

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Internships

by Victoria Tomlinson December 1, 2009
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After a late night with the interns and putting them up at our homes, I started early by cooking a full Yorkshire breakfast for everyone from bacon and eggs to tomato and beans. The rest of our team joined us and we talked about our own internship ideas for next year. We are keen to [...]

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Inspiration from young people

by Victoria Tomlinson November 30, 2009
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The end of an inspiring day. The six interns arrived from London and have been blown away with all that Yorkshire has to offer.
The day started on a high with Helen Kettleborough, director of communications at Pace plc, leaders in digital TV technology. A real professional, Helen did a whistle stop tour through the breadth [...]

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Enthusiastic graduates coming to Yorkshire

by Victoria Tomlinson November 9, 2009
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Today I have been putting the finishing touches to a really exciting project.
When Heather McGregor came up to Yorkshire to speak at the northern CIPR conference recently, she mentioned an inspirational internship programme that her business is running.
Taylor Bennett is a headhunter for the communications industry.  Increasingly they are asked to find more diverse shortlists [...]

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