Blog Post #11- Top Places to Work in PR

When September Wade visited our class, she mentioned that Weber Shandwick received an award as one of the top places to work in PR by PR News. I found this very interesting; this clearly means that her company has excellent employee relations. Employee relations are perhaps the most important of all public relations. We learned in class that if a company does not have excellent relationships with its employees, its other relationships with other public might not matter.

Here is the article from PR News Online, posted September 22, 2009, that announces the top places to work in PR. It is divided into three categories: agency, corporate department, and non-profit. The nominations were analyzed by a panel of external judges and PR New editors, who considered "everything from the organization's turnover rate and opportunities for growth, to employee's candid descriptions of the intangibles that keep them happy and driven."

Here are the top places to work in each category, as of Sept. 22, 2009

Corporate:

Best Buy, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Cisco, Discovery Communications, First Horizon National Corp., Pfizer, State Farm Insurance, Symantec, Turner Broadcasting System

Agency:

APCO, Carmichael Lynch Spong, CJP Communications, Cohn Marketing, Marina Maher Communications, MWW, Sterling Communications, Text 100, Waggener Edstrom, Weber Shandwick

Nonprofit:

American Red Cross, Children's Home Society of Florida, Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente