"There's a lot of interviewing at the entry-level but not a lot of hiring, which is turning a lot of people off to the profession."
-- Mike Marino, HR consultant to the PR industry
"A lot of people in the business lament the lack of respect for PR. But PR is a commodity. The key difference [for PR execs] to succeed is being able to explain why something
has happened, not what happened."
-- Marc Hausman, president-CEO of Strategic Communications Group Inc.
"Overall, increases in salaries have slowed dramatically, but base salaries are higher than they were in the 1990s."
-- Jerry Schwartz, president-CEO of G.S. Schwartz & Co.
"We're now able to project two quarters ahead of time, as opposed to one quarter a year ago. It's just one quarter but it's a significant difference in our ability to plan our
budgets."
-- Helene Solomon, president-CEO of SolomonMcCown