{"id":372,"date":"2017-10-06T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:02:21","slug":"leap-accounts-public-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"The leap from Accounts to Public Relations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#How_I_went_from_an_education_in_Finance_and_Accounting_to_building_a_career_in_Public_Relations\" >How I went from an education in Finance and Accounting to building a career in Public Relations<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#In_my_case_it_was_Chartered_Accountants\" >In my case, it was Chartered Accountants.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_I_went_from_an_education_in_Finance_and_Accounting_to_building_a_career_in_Public_Relations\"><\/span>How I went from an education in Finance and Accounting to building a career in Public Relations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you take anything other than science, the society does not accept it. But somehow you do manage to take some other stream. In my case commerce. Then automatically you either have to do chartered Accountants or Company Secretary.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"In_my_case_it_was_Chartered_Accountants\"><\/span>In my case, it was Chartered Accountants.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Accounts and I had somewhat of a love hate relationship. I never hated it but I didn\u2019t love it either. And since I did fairly well in accounts my mum presumed I\u2019ll be a chartered accountant.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t easy the leap from accounts to public relations. I broke expectations. And I felt horrible. But I wanted to be a public relations manager. When I studied accounts it was all text books. There was a format and we would solve in that format. It was pretty easy. But then public relations isn\u2019t that easy. We have to keep up to date with the current affairs which I\u2019m not good at. Reading newspapers everyday was even worse. It was a complete change of my schedule. Where once I would just solve questions now I had to do research.\u00a0 Within the first week, I lost hope. Maybe, I did a mistake. Maybe, my mum was right. I should have done Chartered accountants. Did I do a mistake? The doubts came up.<\/p>\n<p>But then my mum had always told. Nothing will be served on a silver platter. You have to achieve it. Even though my parents were hesitant about public relations. They believed in me and let me take up public relations. At that time I realised it was not going to be easy. And that I had to put in my efforts. The leap from accounts was not easy. It still is difficult but I couldn\u2019t give in. The two things that I learned in public relations that will always be stuck with me is to never give up and never give in, my motto from now on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Reenal Lobo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reenal\u00a0is a student of the #ClassOf2018 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/a-letter-to-class-of-2017-pr-school-score\/\">PG Programme<\/a> in Public Relations at SCoRe. She has completed her Bachelors in Commerce\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagnescollege.org\/\">St. Agnes College<\/a>, Mangaluru. She can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/reenal-lobo-785a48148\/\">Reenal Lobo<\/a> on LinkedIn and\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lobo_marita\"><span class=\"username u-dir\" dir=\"ltr\">@lobo_marita<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,69,6],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career","tag-education","tag-public-relations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Accounts to Public Relations- the major leap- SCoRe Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Relations as a profession is not just for mass communications graduates, but those from various backgrounds make it big.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Accounts to Public Relations- the major leap- SCoRe Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Public Relations as a profession is not just for mass communications graduates, but those from various backgrounds make it big.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Relations Courses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-06T18:50:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-28T12:02:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/calculator-385506_1920.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1131\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SCoRe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@scoreind\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@scoreind\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SCoRe\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/\",\"name\":\"From Accounts to Public Relations- the major leap- SCoRe Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/calculator-385506_1920.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-10-06T18:50:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-28T12:02:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/5687d19e8df339524102bd5c694a0370\"},\"description\":\"Public Relations as a profession is not just for mass communications graduates, but those from various backgrounds make it big.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/leap-accounts-public-relations\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/calculator-385506_1920.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/scoreindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/calculator-385506_1920.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1131,\"caption\":\"people from all backgrounds can build a career in Public relations with the right education at the right institute. whether its mass communications degrees, or finance and accounting or engineering or anything else. 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