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Communications job alert! Learn more about these two communications roles at the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services.

If you've ever wondered whether selling your company matters if no one hears about it, you're not alone. Let's face it, making a significant sale is a big deal, but without proper communication, you might be missing out on some serious impact. We had the chance to catch up with PR maven and Co-Founder of Talk Shop, Sara Padidar, who shed light on some common missteps founders take in the realm of M&A-focused public relations. Better yet, she shared some actionable advice on how to navigate this intricate terrain. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gRnAAWZZ #techexit #tech #mergersandacquisitions #pr #publicrelations

It's #TalentThursdays again! Here is a selection of the excellent #communications candidates we are working with at Comms Search & Selection. 👩⚖️ Head of PR & Communications - #lawfirm 🛰 Director of Internal Communications - #telco 🏦 Senior Media Relations Manager - #assetmanager 💰 Head of ESG & Investor Relations - #investmentmanager Please contact me to discuss any of the profiles in more detail. #commsjobs

Learn more about our Assistant Deputy Director of Communications opening below! 👇

PRWeek's great 2024 Business Report highlights the key challenge facing our industry. Communications is more important than ever. Comms and policy leaders are being asked to play far larger roles as business partners supporting ever more stakeholders. So why did the industry suffer so much in 2023 after many years of growth? As an sector, we are not adapting fast enough to the needs. Organizations are desperate for help but also under tremendous financial strain. They now need both senior level counsel and advisory support as well as deep domain expertise to actually produce. By and large, our industry is still split by this chasm - between strategic and tactical. Clients cannot afford to separate these, either in time or money. At Bully Pulpit International our goal is to bridge this divide, building a team that can both 'think and do' at the highest levels. It's not always easy. Last year was a challenge. But if you share this vision for the future, please check out some of our open roles: https://lnkd.in/dGQwJUSG

Imagine if the whole public relations industry *went on strike* for a month? 🤔 I’m talking internal & external PR/comms pros. In both the public & private sectors. Tech PR, consumer PR. Investor relations & analyst relations. Corp comms & crisis comms. The. Whole. Ball. Of. Wax. 🤯 What would our News look like? What would our Politics look like? What would corporate earnings and guidance look like? It strikes me that our industry often gets short shrift, but *so many facets of our lives would be mired in friction, chaos, and clusterf*cky bottlenecks* without our steady, reasoned guidance. And that’s kind of cool. Our jobs are hard. But they damn sure matter. This is the way ✊ #publicrelations #communications

I'm biased, but: Only in certain circumstances does a PR crisis just "go away." I understand how alluring it can be for founders (and their VCs) to buy into the notion that you can just wait for the storm to pass, and it'll all be fine. Founders, and whoever's backing them, would obviously prefer that capital go toward customer acquisition or engineers or whatever. But however costly it might be to hire a comms firm, it's probably less costly than just assuming (hoping) that it'll all 'go away' once the initial news cycle dies down. From where I sit, managing the PR crisis is just the first phase of the work. The bigger mission is managing the negative attention a company or person inevitably gets in the aftermath of a PR crisis – from their investors, or their employees/employer, or customers, government regulators, creditors, competitors... And that's because the bad PR isn't even the real problem. The problem is what the bad PR revealed about you. Whatever that problem is, now laid bare, a good comms team should go a lot further than just suggesting "say sorry, say nothing, or post through it." But I'll kindly assume that this tweet is reductive because it wants to be brief.

Imagine if the whole public relations industry *went on strike* for a month? 🤔 I’m talking internal & external PR/comms pros. In both the public & private sectors. Tech PR, consumer PR. Investor relations & analyst relations. Corp comms & crisis comms. The. Whole. Ball. Of. Wax. 🤯 What would our News look like? What would our Politics look like? What would corporate earnings and guidance look like? It struck me today that our industry often gets short shrift, but *so many facets of our lives would be mired in friction, chaos, and clusterf*cky bottlenecks* without our steady, reasoned guidance. And that’s kind of cool. Our jobs are hard. But they damn sure matter. This is the way ✊ #publicrelations #communications

Many people think they know PR. They have no training or experience in the industry, but claim they know a journalist or think they can mirror a press release. (They may self write and post a release in a newswire.) The art and science of PR is complex and layered involving specific writing rules, countless industries, varied tactics and strategies, and numerous players. We can materialize, fix, or collapse whole product/people/industry campaigns. #PR #PublicAffairs

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