The sheets are organised by all the avenues I need to cover - PR recruitment agencies/PR agencies themselves/PR Job sites/In-House PR - with all the appropriate contact details.
I've been going through each person/company and calling, sending emails with my cv, follow up calls etc for each person in the spreadsheet.
Rachael said I need to:
'Make a job of getting a job'and that is indeed what I'm doing.
Yesterday I was going through my PR recruitment agencies page, just making calls. I came to a company I didn't pay much attention to as their site suggested they were quite a small company - When I got an answerphone I moved on.
I'm so glad I called again. Mel, the MD and founder, answered. After explaining my situation she told me 'I don't take on graduate/entry level, purely because I don't get paid for it! But I'll send you all of my fashion PR contacts?'
Uhh... you mean you want to send me your goldddust list of PR contacts, at absolutely no benefit to yourself? Yea I think I'll take it!
This morning I had a missed call from Mel, called her back and she says..
'So I've got you an interview'
Sorry WHATTT?! The woman got me an interview in under 24 hours with a PR agency in Marylebone specialising in lifestyles - exactly the kind of thing I want to be doing.
The company would probably want to start me out interning (travel paid) and then hopefully hire me after. YES YES YES.
Just can't get over this lady. And the fact that this is happening. Even if nothing comes of it, just the idea that something CAN come of it is enough.
And grateful, I know this is all purely because of the Lord and the help he's giving me, could not have done it without Him.
Mel still sent me her contacts list - direct emails to HUGE agencies like Relative MO, The Communications Store, Starworks.. INSANE. Big-guns like these don't even have 'career' sections on their sites their that exclusive. I CANNOT GET OVER THIS LADY. She told me 'she likes me and wants to help' - I have no idea why since our call lasted 2 minutes, she sounds mega powerful and I'm like this puny, unemployed graduate. I didn't think people like Mel & Rachael existed. I've heard of them, but thought they were popular myths, like 4 leaf clovers, unicorns, and pots of gold at the end of a rainbow..
I'm excited, I'm so utterly and completely excited.
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