Comments on: Message to Marketing Graduates

By: Bags

Bags — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:20:51 +0000

I’ve been guest lecturing in a bunch of the classes in my department over the past few weeks. Sounds like we covered a lot of the same stuff. It’s amazing to see the industry change right before our eyes… I’m excited to graduate this spring… especially since I have such a head start on so much of the competition.

Thanks for the great post! Keep waking up college students!

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:59:24 +0000

I like that idea. Kind of a truncated internship.

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:13:55 +0000

[...] Paul Gillin writes “traditional media is collapsing” and goes on to talk about the changes we are all seeing as new institutions emerge to fill the communications needs no longer served by print. Paul goes on to talk about how we will all be turning to the newcomers in our organizations to train us in the new tools of communications. [...]

By: Betsy Kosheff

Betsy Kosheff — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:55:18 +0000

Offer to work two weeks for free. That’s how I got the late Sue Schauppener to hire me during a hiring freeze at the Strayton Corp. (Cripes, everyone is dying I must be old now.)

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The Marketing Umbrella « Pinto’s Beans of Marketing Wisdom — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:49:45 +0000

[...] Gillin publishes a blog and newsletter that is a must-read if you are in the field of marketing. In a recent post, he made a statement that will stick with me for quite a while. Here’s what he [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:04:07 +0000

Well, at least get rid of the pictures of you lying face down in a puddle of beer

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:03:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing that advice! Graduating seniors are hungry for that kind of information.

By: Mike Johansson (@mikefixs)

Mike Johansson (@mikefixs) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:25:13 +0000

Great post Paul. I’m still workng very hard to get you to Rochester Institute of Technology where I teach. I think your messages are ones all students in all areas of communication study need to hear. I’ll be sharing this in two of the classes I currently treach. Thanks

By: Laurent Rozenfeld

Laurent Rozenfeld — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:08:46 +0000

Great post!
I really like it, I think however you shouldn’t clean up your Facebook profile.
My view on the subject is that with time even people in HR will realize that personality is as important (if not more) than hard skills and that getting information from Facebook provides you a better picture of the person. It’s not only about drinking games, but also if the person likes to travel, who are his/her friends, what does this person like/read, etc.
Internal communication will also change and I won’t be surprised to see FB clones popping up inside companies.
Learn to know your employees they say.

And for marketing people attitude is something important, you don’t want to be “clean” like anybody else.

Just my thought as a former student that did everything the opposite way