Google PR Doesn’t Want To Hire Professionals

Put this in the “Doesn’t Surprise Anyone” category.
Tom Foremski was at Google last month, talking to David Krane and Brian O’Shaughnessy, corporate communications guys at the search company. They told him their staffs are being doubled this month, which is similar to what I heard in February from PR guys at Google New York. Google’s hiring a lot of people in public relations, as any growing company will have to do.
What is shocking is that they revealed that it is the policy of Elliot Schrage, head of corporate communications, that Google does not hire anyone for PR with PR experience. Yeah, no one. No one with experience at an advertising firm, no one with journalism experience, and no one with PR industry experience. They only hire top grads from the top schools.
How utterly bullheaded. The PR industry is filled with people who have become […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg