Future Cert IV PR students

Future students wanting to study Cert IV PR, you need to be passionate about the course. When you start the course don’t be in any illusion that you’re the only one that doesn’t know much about the subject because you will be same as your other colleagues. Be prepared to be set up for high standard of work because this course is known for students delivering good work.

One thing I assure you is that the lecturers are friendly and are always there to guide and put you on the track.  Sometime you will have people who will get to you, but just focus and do what you’re supposed to do. In this course there will be assessments that you need to do as a group, and one important thing is that you need teamwork to get the work done. There will be people who won’t contribute as much but are trying there best and you’ll have people who act like their doing everything and those who don’t do anything at all. The best thing to do is to continue with the work and try to do what you can do and let the lecturer know about it. Be positive and respect others ideas and thoughts, despite it’s different from yours

As a PR practitioner you need to make sure you NETWORK with people because it’s very IMPORTANT.

My PR experience of the semester.

I can’t believe I’m almost to the end of this course, and which I did not plan in doing.

First of all when I got the letter from TAFE saying I was accepted into the course I was not too happy because my first choice was to study Cert IV in Enrolled Nurse. But the sad part was I was two percent of the entry mark. I initially was hoping to get into Uni to Study Registered Nurse but didn’t get the ATAR score that I needed which led me into coming to Central Institute of Technology to study PR.

My first thought about PR is people who work with the public, like people who work for immigration and centrelink but that I was all wrong. PR is a whole different thing to what I thought of it. I have learn't that if you want to be a professional PR practitioner you have code of ethics that you needs to abide by, and you really need to know your stuff and be alert with the news 24/7, and it’s a never ending job because it doesn’t have a particular time that you finish, love to meet new people and always NETWORK with people because you will need them someday. This is something that is really essential as being a PR practitioner. At the beginning of the course being someone who didn’t have a clue what the course was all about was really difficult for me to take part in class discussions. Even though am not fully confident in presenting to large number of people, but this course has certainly helped to get rid of my shyness and improving my communication skills as an individual.