
Meredith Weir
Public Relations Associate
Capital One
Capital One
Public Relations Associate
I communicate the great things our products and tools can do for our customers.
A few key elements to a great day at my job would be learning about new and or developing things about our credit card products. My team and I take the new "news" about the products and / or tools and share it with journalists at online, print and broadcast news outlets so they can then share the news broadly with their readers (who are the people we have as customers - or even better, they're people we hope become customers!). We share our company's news!
Here's the first step for high school students
I didn't know that I would be in the Public Relations field when I was in high school. So as a first step in high school, I'd personally recommend striving to go to college to pursue some of your passions (whatever they may be!). I went to a school with a liberal arts program (so I took math, science, English, and other "core" classes) in addition to Business Undergrad classes. I loved that I got exposed to so many classes / subjects in college. From there I was able to discover my PR passion.
"I don't know if I'm up for that job."