Hear About Jessica's RaiderComm Experience
Many students struggle to find electives that will help them gain experience in their intended field. We search through course catalogs and reach out to friends to find those classes that are worth a semester long commitment. Find out how Jessica Persch joined RaiderComm and the experience she gained from being an agency associate!
“As I was on a Zoom call with my advisor at end of the Fall 2020 semester, we were stuck trying to find one more elective course that sparked my interest. While searching through my Degree Works, she suggested I take RaiderComm Public Relations. After further explanation I learned that not only is this a course that puts a student’s skills to work, but it acts as a sneak peek into what an internship would look like in the PR field.
Recently in the course our class was divided into four account teams to produce a detailed business proposal for an upcoming event, CANstruction, in Spring 2022 for our client, Raider Red's Food Pantry. Each group had 2 weeks to interview with the client, put together a research memo, create a final new business proposal, and finally execute all the work we put together by pitching the proposals to our client.
Personally, this experience has shifted my entire perspective on Public Relations. Learning material in lectures may work well for some people, but if you like to do firsthand work to better understand the concepts, RaiderComm has helped me grow so much. I feel that I have grown in the following categories: social networking, creative content creation, graphic design, event planning, extensive research, and networking.
If you are a Public Relations student struggling to figure out what Public Relations is or how it works in more depth, I highly recommend taking RaiderComm.” - Jessica Persch
Jessica is from Allen, Texas majoring in public relations.
She is expected to graduate May of 2022 with the intention of coordinating special events.
She wants incoming first-year students to get involved.
The only way she has grown in her major is stepping out of her comfort zone and finding programs like RaiderComm!
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