COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Published: May 26, 2025 – The Communications Professional possesses extensive experience in developing strategic communication plans that enhance brand reputation and stakeholder engagement. This role requires strong proficiency in media relations, content creation, and crisis communication across digital and traditional platforms. The position also excels at coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering impactful messaging in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Communications Resume
  • Content Creation
  • Digital Communications
  • Channel Management
  • Report Generation
  • Campaign Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Media Relations
  • Social Media Management
  • Proposal Writing
  • Data Analysis
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Team Collaboration
  • Relationship Building
  • Communication Planning
  • Project Management
  • Decision Making
  • Process Advising
  • Opportunity Identification
  • Leadership Collaboration
  • Risk Monitoring

Summary of Communications Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BA in Media Studies with 5 years of Experience

  • Relevant experience working in the healthcare industry
  • Solid experience with social media, website content management systems, and website analytics
  • Excellent computer skills, including Internet research, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and facility in learning new data management tools
  • Experience with InDesign, Photoshop, and video editing software
  • Experience working in the communications field
  • Familiarity with traditional and social media outreach
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Impeccable editing and proofreading skills
  • Excellent analytical abilities and critical thinking skills with good judgment skills
  • Highly organized, creative, and flexible, with strong project-, people-, and time management skills
  • Ability to work in a highly collaborative and team environment, as well as work autonomously on specific projects

2. BA in Communications with 4 years of Experience

  • Relevant marketing experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Experience using digital marketing to raise awareness and take action.
  • Working knowledge of Salesfusion or other email/marketing automation tools.
  • Facility/familiarity with Adobe Suite design tools, Salesforce or another CRM, and WordPress.
  • Team player with a can-do attitude.
  • Comfortable in a matrix-management situation.
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Ability to prioritize and see the big picture.
  • Ability to liaise with all levels in an organization.
  • Non-profit working experience
  • Ability to work some evening and weekend hours each week, easily walk up and down stairs, bend down, reach, push, pull, and lift to 50 lbs.

3. BA in Advertising with 5 years of Experience

  • Strong copywriting experience, understand the Regional President's tone of voice, and can translate this in a creative but powerful way.
  • Creative skills and able to create media content following corporate branding.
  • Experience working with PR and media exposure.
  • Experience reading, prioritising, and interpreting data/information quickly and accurately.
  • Awareness and in-depth knowledge of the key issues facing McCain and the food industry.
  • Interest in and a broad and deep knowledge of news and current affairs.
  • Awareness of new and leading-edge communication technologies for internal and external corporate communication
  • Someone who can communicate effectively to a wider range of stakeholders using a broad range of styles.
  • Someone who can work to challenging deadlines, balancing multiple priorities whilst remaining focused to deliver to a high standard.
  • A strong attention to detail, copy reading, and copy writing.
  • Ability to adapt large amounts of information and proactively identify and express key points of relevance.

4. BA in Journalism with 3 years of Experience

  • Organized, self-motivated, able to set work priorities and complete work with minimal supervision
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • High level of professionalism in communicating with external clients
  • Ability to perform work virtually and must have access to stable wi-fi/internet
  • Detail-oriented with strong organizational and documentation skills
  • Ability to easily manage and coordinate multiple projects and meet deadlines
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, Zoom, Hootsuite, Google Analytics, and social media platforms
  • Experience with tools and programs to facilitate the deployment of communications campaigns and strategies, such as media monitoring platforms.
  • Experience in the solid waste and recycling industry
  • Experience working in consulting
  • Working experience in strategic communications.
  • Certification or training in one or more of public relations, community-based social marketing, strategic communications, social media, digital marketing, and copywriting.

5. BA in Broadcast Journalism with 8 years of Experience

  • Equivalent experience in Communications or Public Engagement.
  • Experience with project-based work and/or working environment.
  • Experience planning and conducting outreach or public involvement activities, or community/public relations, city or state planning, or general communications experience.
  • Excellent writing and public speaking skills.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple assignments concurrently.
  • Comfortable with controversial public opinions and fluctuations in project priorities.
  • Adaptable to a communication environment with an evolving state-of-the-art tools and resources.
  • Personal commitment to client requests and deadlines.
  • Detail-oriented and enthusiastic with demonstrable knowledge of and ability to implement various public involvement techniques.
  • Excellent people skills, including the ability to communicate clearly, listen and summarize information, document interactions, and problem-solve or reduce conflicts when possible.
  • Ability to understand and explain technical information to a variety of audiences, often in high-profile situations.
  • Experience with the development and implementation of public outreach and or communications plans.
  • Graphic design experience, and experience with Adobe CC or other graphics programs
  • Ability to complete complex work assignments on schedule, with limited supervision.

6. BA in Business Administration with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience working in a relevant business environment
  • Portfolio of work created by the applicant to showcase
  • Ability to understand IT tools, concepts, and strategies and turn them into visual communications.
  • Working technical knowledge and understanding of design fundamentals, strategy, and concepts.
  • Ability to facilitate sessions with clients, ask probing questions to elicit design solutions.
  • Able to understand user experience concepts and how to apply them to design deliverables.
  • Demonstrate critical skills such as collaboration, strong written/verbal communication, and analytical capability.
  • Knowledge of the development of business process models, business requirements/user stories (functional and non-functional), and product backlogs.
  • The ability to coordinate with clients on problem and incident management with minimal supervision.

7. BA in Public Relations with 10 years of Experience

  • Relevant work experience, including supervisory experience
  • Background in health care or public health, and experience with primary care
  • Background in policy as well as experience with public-private partnerships, financial institutions, or community development organizations
  • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing communications strategies
  • Exceptional written, verbal, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
  • Creativity in storytelling from both a narrative and visual perspective in support of PCDC's B2B account-based marketing strategy
  • Expert knowledge about key social media platforms
  • Experience in working with and coaching senior executives to ensure maximum communication effectiveness
  • Ease in creating and delivering presentations for various audiences
  • High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to serve as a unifying force and to position communications discussions at both the strategic and tactical levels
  • Exceptional organizational and research skills, and the willingness to actively assist in “all-hands” activities, such as large-scale events
  • Diplomacy, focus, patience, and a sense of humor
  • Proficiency in WordPress and Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word
  • Salesforce and Pardot experience

8. BA in Media Studies with 5 years of Experience

  • Solid communications strategy and planning experience.
  • Experience developing behaviour change and community engagement techniques.
  • Understanding of the communication mix and experience of content production across multiple formats.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills, persuasion, and negotiation.
  • Customer management skills/experience.
  • Recycling and waste industry knowledge or experience gained in a similar type of industry.
  • Understanding or experience of working with local authorities.
  • People and budget management experience.
  • Understanding of the social media landscape

9. BA in Integrated Marketing Communications with 9 years of Experience

  • Experience supporting, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise telecom solutions, including VOIP and call centers
  • Exposure to NICE (InContact, Studio, IEX/WFM), Zendesk, Zendesk Talk, and Twilio products
  • Experience in the administration of Broadsoft-hosted SIP environments
  • Strong documentation skills, proficient in design documents and diagrams
  • Working knowledge of multi-unit (chain) retail systems and processes
  • Knowledge of SIP Proxy or phone system routing into Microsoft Teams
  • Strong customer service orientation, attention to detail, and written/verbal communication skills.
  • Strong knowledge of support processes around IT support organizations to route and resolve technical problems and translate highly technical requirements into easily understandable service-level terms.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and to negotiate those priorities with internal and external customers.
  • Knowledge of core Unified Communications technologies, including IP Voice, dial plans/permissions, PRI, SIP trunking, call routing, PSTN gateway routers, telephony network design, and survivable telephony/failover
  • Strong experience with scripting languages (UNIX/Linux Shell, Perl, Python, JavaScript, PHP, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of core IP telephony protocols, such as H.323 (and its subcomponents such as H.225, H.245, etc.), SIP authentication, authorization, federation, multi-factor authentication, vulnerability assessment/remediation, signing, and encryption.
  • Ability to work across multiple interdisciplinary areas and with many different personalities and areas of expertise.
  • Ability to maintain vendor relationships and to communicate technical requirements and priorities to help drive feature requests.

10. BA in Corporate Communications with 6 years of Experience

  • Strong knowledge of developing and leading internal communications and employee engagement strategies, and plans
  • Experience in a similar communication role (internal or external)
  • Knowledge of internal communications trends and best practices
  • Experience in SharePoint and/or other internal communications platforms
  • Superb written and verbal English communication skills with a gift for storytelling
  • An ability to write engaging messages, adapting the tone of voice to topics, topic owners, and target audiences
  • Experience and passion for building collaborative relationships and strong influencing ability
  • Highly motivated, creative, detail-oriented self-starter who is results-driven with strong commercial and market awareness.
  • Experience working with the Adobe suite and design
  • Project management experience and proficiency in Microsoft products
  • Excellent organisational and timekeeping skills

11. BA in Digital Media with 1 year of Experience

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong proofreading and editing skills
  • Ability to distill complex ideas into language appropriate for varied audiences
  • Ability to balance creative storytelling with analytical assessment to ensure alignment with corporate narrative
  • Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to prioritize and manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to work independently and with others, and strong interpersonal skills
  • Dependability, flexibility, and the ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Strong working capabilities in Microsoft Office programs
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Digital communications aptitude, experience working with web or social media content management systems 
  • Must be available to work throughout the school year on a part-time basis

12. BA in Strategic Communication with 7 years of Experience

  • Experience leading communications for a large organisation or complex project (Power, energy, oil/gas, utilities)
  • Experience planning, managing, delivering, and evaluating communications and (ideally) stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
  • Clear commitment to continuous professional development to maintain and update communications skills (e.g., through CIPR, CIM, IoIC, or similar membership)
  • Experience operating alongside and providing advice and support to senior managers
  • Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and prioritise multiple tasks and projects
  • Experience in developing, implementing, and managing branding/corporate identity guidelines
  • Ability to understand and succinctly convey key technical successes and challenges
  • Excellent writing skills to produce engaging, accurate content for diverse audiences
  • Good networking and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface (and challenge) at all levels from trade operatives through to executives
  • Experience in developing and using social media, electronic communications, and websites
  • Strong IT skills with knowledge and practical experience of relevant communication tools and technology (e.g., content management systems, CRMs, and social media channels)
  • The ability to obtain SC clearance for access to the Sellafield site
  • A specialist qualification (CIPR, CIM, IoIC diploma) or equivalent relevant experience

13. BA in Communications with 11 years of Experience

  • Experience in a related field, with scientific writing experience
  • Significant executive and internal communications experience in a corporate or agency environment
  • Experience in a communications/public relations field with a history of increasing communication responsibility and support.
  • Ability to partner with leaders and subject matter experts to multitask and flexibly manage multiple projects with competing priorities and shifting timeframes
  • The ability to prioritize and operate independently and strategically with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines.
  • Working knowledge of the design and layout of communications materials, and communications measurement and reporting tools
  • Proven track record securing strategic media coverage and executing successful PR campaigns
  • Skilled storyteller who communicates in concise, compelling, and persuasive ways across formats - formal and informal, written and verbal
  • Experience leading and executing communications strategies on a global scale
  • Applied knowledge working with online communications, social media, and content management
  • Proficient in Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint/Keynote, and SharePoint with a working knowledge of PR/Social tools
  • Strong organizational and project management skills
  • Self-directed, action-oriented, detail-oriented, collaborative

14. BA in Journalism with 3 years of Experience

  • Proven experience in communications and/or journalism, preferably on environmental dimensions of energy-related, industrial, and agricultural issues
  • Persuasive communicator in both written and spoken formats
  • Able to explain complex ideas clearly and plainly
  • Accurate and attentive to detail
  • Competent with CMS (particularly WordPress), social media platforms, and other relevant tools
  • Able to briefly explain how the EU works
  • Knowledgeable of EU and international environmental and sustainability policies
  • Able to work both autonomously and as part of a team
  • Open to learn and ready to digest detailed information
  • Strong command of English, and/or other EU languages
  • Must subscribe to the company’s values

15. BA in Broadcast Journalism with 8 years of Experience

  • Communications-related experience and a successful record of developing and delivering communications strategies through to implementation
  • Knowledge and experience working in Ontario’s energy sector
  • Knowledge of communications strategies, approaches, and tactics
  • Significant experience with large projects involving complex communications strategies
  • Excellent organization skills
  • A demonstrated history of effective time management, coordination with stakeholders, and managing internal or external client expectations
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Proven track record of working with creative agencies to achieve results
  • Strong analytical, creative, and strategic skills
  • Solid negotiating, influencing, and decision-making abilities
  • Strong team player with exceptional interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work well with others

16. BA in Advertising with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience in internal communications for a large organization.
  • Excellent critical and creative thinking skills.
  • Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
  • Superior organizational skills and ability to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines with consistency.
  • Demonstrates strong initiative, follow-through, and follow-up.
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
  • A strong working knowledge of traditional and emerging media and content platforms.
  • Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment, as well as independently with little supervision.
  • Ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable communication.
  • Clear understanding of how to reach disparate stakeholder audiences through targeted messaging and effective use of communications tools.

17. BA in Corporate Communications with 8 years of Experience

  • PR/Media Relations experience, and agency experience
  • Excellent writing skills, demonstrated experience crafting newsworthy pitches, releases, blogs, bylines, and social media posts
  • Proven success in building relationships with members of the media and driving results
  • Experience with data-driven storytelling and programming
  • Collaborative spirit, results-driven, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work against deadlines
  • Self-starter, highly organized, and detail-oriented
  • Versed in Cision or similar media monitoring and database management tools, experience with coordinating press release wire distribution, and monitoring editorial source request tools like Cision’s Profnet and HARO
  • Familiarity with the fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization
  • Experience working with Agile methodology, operational software and tools (i.e., Slack, Asana), and the Google Suite editing tools
  • Experience with understanding data and deriving insights
  • Be intimately familiar with the UK business and consumer media landscape
  • Have designed and implemented consumer campaigns, with the ability to write clearly and communicate with different audiences
  • Relationship building and collaboration skills
  • Entrepreneurial and creative mindset, and comfortable in a highly ambiguous environment, able to take responsibility from day one, and confident in working on projects independently

18. BA in Public Relations with 9 years of Experience

  • Media or public relations experience 
  • Previous experience working as a reporter
  • Must have extraordinary attention to detail, high standards of accuracy in writing and editing, and strict adherence to standard operating procedures and style
  • Able to write and edit following both the AP Manual of Style and the Chicago Manual of Style
  • Demonstrated organizational skills in a complex and dynamic work environment are essential
  • Established media contacts, preferably in the aerospace and defense industries
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Takes responsibility for actions and is accountable for deadlines and deliverables
  • Strong sense of protocol and comfortable interacting with Institute members, industry leaders, VIPs, elected officials, security teams, and volunteer leadership
  • Writing accurately under a deadline, ability to analyze press coverage quickly, handle press calls and press inquiries, arrange interviews
  • Demonstrated proficiency with web and social media, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications

19. BA in Strategic Communication with 7 years of Experience

  • Knowledge of public health preparedness and emergency management practices
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in multiple media
  • Familiarity with the CDC's clear writing guidelines
  • Familiarity with working in a remote office and/or multiple customer locations
  • Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat
  • Strong organizational skills that reflect the ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly, with excellent attention to detail
  • Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders
  • Knowledge of proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capabilities
  • Highly resourceful team player with the ability to be extremely effective independently
  • Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response.
  • Ability to achieve high-performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
  • Forward-looking thinker who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions

20. BA in Public Relations with 6 years of Experience

  • Understanding of the principles of change management and can develop communication that directly supports those principles.
  • Ability to facilitate strategy discussions, use systems thinking, and understand business priorities in problem-solving, resulting in solutions with appropriate use of resources.
  • Ability to effectively advise senior leaders on opportunities, risks, and potential solutions.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, gain consensus, and drive results through indirect management of people and tasks.
  • Use independent judgment and critical thinking skills to effectively make appropriate decisions.
  • Present self effectively with all levels of leadership, influence through credibility and expertise, champion strategies and initiatives, and appropriately manage stakeholder expectations, educating as necessary to ensure common understanding.
  • Be flexible in accomplishing the goals of an initiative, manage and prioritize multiple demands, and respond to rapidly changing priorities.
  • Able to collaborate with coworkers in a way that recognizes and supports their talents and skills
  • Ability to proactively self-direct work and collaborate effectively within groups.
  • Ability to be nimble, work quickly and effectively, and exercise discretion.
  • Exceptional and engaging writing, communication, presentation, and planning skills.
  • Monitor industry trends and best practices for opportunities.

21. BA in Media Studies with 5 years of Experience

  • A strong background in engineering with specialization in Communications systems
  • Knowledge of SATCOM waveforms and protocols
  • Strong interpersonal skills, communication (oral and written), and presentation skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Must be a motivated, self-starter capable of autonomous on-the-job learning/improvement
  • Hold management qualifications, such as an MBA or PMP
  • Systems engineering certifications, such as ESEP, CSEP, and OCSMP
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