Weighing the choice between grad school or entering the workforce
Young PR leaders share their thinking behind this important early career decision and what is driving their planning during a disruptive period. By Vivian Moussa & Mary Louise Long
Feb. 4, 2021
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As seniors embarking on their last semester of college, we’re faced with the daunting question: “What are your plans after graduation?” The ongoing pandemic is of course continuing to affect everyone’s lives and actions, but the two most common paths recent college graduates take is to either enter the workforce or to attend graduate school.
Each of us would like to share our reasons for choosing one of these options, to help others decide which path might be right for them.
Haarer s rise in TV news was rapid. He graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State in 2012, then worked at KVOA, the NBC affiliate in Tucson, for a couple of years before landing at 9News in Denver. After three years, he left the outlet to be with his girlfriend, fellow reporter Liz Kotalik, in Phoenix, where he freelanced for CBS s KPHO, but returned not long after when 9News positions opened up for both of them. Kotalik, to whom Haarer is engaged (the couple postponed their wedding in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 crisis), is still a staffer at the station.
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Originally from Spokane, Emily has lived all over the U.S. and couldn’t be happier to be back home, telling stories for the community she was raised in. The Pacific Northwest is where her heart feels most happy; being in nature close to water, and most importantly, close to family.
Emily spent most of her teenage years and early twenties in Phoenix, Arizona. That time was broken up by one year spent in Honolulu, where she attended Hawaii Pacific University on a dance scholarship, her freshmen year. After that, she returned to Phoenix to attend Arizona State University.
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