Yesterday was the Second Reading of the Lobbying Bill, also known as the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill.
All kinds of organisations choose to think about hiring a public affairs consultancy from time to time to provide skills or capacity which aren’t available in-house.
Parliament and Whitehall spit out an alarmingly large amount of information on a daily basis.
The ‘Lobbying Bill’ recently introduced to Parliament is designed to deliver on the Coalition Government’s promise to legislate on what David Cameron branded...
Public affairs is a profession that deals with the deliberate communication of relevant information between interested parties and their political representatives.
Effective public affairs networking make delivering for clients and colleagues just that much easier.
It’s a rather obvious irony that the public affairs industry hasn’t always done the best job of explaining itself in plain English to the public.
You never can tell when a sudden change of career direction means you need to dust off that CV and covering letter.
Public affairs jobs can be hard to come by. It’s a competitive industry.
In the second of this two part series, Oliver Campion-Awwad, a former Parliamentary Assistant and Public Affairs and Communications Manager for the Advertising Association,...