COURTNEY CLAYTON

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From corporate to design, Courtney can handle any communications challenge that is thrown her way. Her passion is creativity and her goal is success. She aspires to go into the community and use her public relations and leadership skills to implement successful community involvement and development. To meet this goal as a person that is addicted to learning, in this ever changing world, Courtney is always looking for trends and new inventions to implement into her work and her brand. Her success driven nature and open mindedness bring a sense of originality to everything she does. Courtney desires to have as much education and real-life experience as possible in her field so that she can make sure that she is the best public relations professional, and overall person, that she can be.

PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALISTWatson Realty Corp.Jacksonville, Fla.

PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERNSt. John & PartnerJacksonville, Fla.

MARKETING INTERNSpark Strategic IdeasCharlotte, NC

As a public relations and content communications specialist for Watson Realty Corp., Courtney manages public relations, media relations, branding, and internal and external communications activities to support more than 1,300 Watson Realty Corp. Realtors® and the Watson Realty Corp. family of services across the company’s footprint in North and Central Florida and South Georgia.

Courtney completed her fifth and final internship in public relations at St. John & Partners. Courtney gained experience researching best practices and trends in earned (traditional) media and social/digital space, developing a comprehensive public relations and social media strategy overlay that complements and amplifies the overall campaign strategy, creating all key support materials for the campaign's earned media efforts, including advisories, releases talking points, email pitches, tool kits, newsletters, market analyses, etc. and brainstorming, campaign design and execution

Courtney was able to work with many clients during her internship, including: Moe's Southwest Grill, Sealife Aquarium, WBTV- CBS Charlotte, Carowinds, Hubee D's, Dean & Deluca, Girls Scouts of America, Schleich, SmashBurger, among others. As a marketing intern, Courtney wrote and edited social media content, news releases & website copy and assisted with media relations efforts, including searching for andmaintaining media contact lists and writing news releases.

University of North FloridaJacksonville, Fla.

Courtney Clayton graduated from the University of North Florida in 2015 where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication, majoring in public relations and a minor in community leadership.

PUBLIC RELATIONSCOPYWRITING

SOCIAL MEDIA

LEADERSHIP

PRSAAAFBOYS & GIRLS CLUBJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY

MEDIA RELATIONSEVENT PLANNINGCOMMUNITY RELATIONSDIGITAL MARKETING

WEBSITEcourtneycclayton.wordpress.com

MOBILE(904) 207 - 0860

EMAILcourtneychristine4@yahoo.com

As the corporate communications intern of Crowley Maritime Corporation Courtney assisted with writing and editing of company publications including a biannual magazine, biweekly news brief, news releases, website articles, and internal news stories, provided photography and video assistance, managed and developed social media content, and created and published internal and external web content, including company websites, social media and intranet site.

Courtney gained experience as the promotions director of UNF Spinnaker Media, which compromises Spinnaker Television, Spinnaker Radio, Spinnaker Magazine and UNFSpinnaker.com. During her position she handled all public relations, media relations, event planning, brand management, promotions, social media and marketing for the organizations and the subsidiaries.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS INTERNCrowley Maritime CorporationJacksonville, Fla.

PROMOTIONS DIRECTORSpinnaker MediaJacksonville, Fla.