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Sabine Tallis

Sabine Tallis

Public Relations Specialist

Public relations specialist with five years across agency and in-house work, from pitching trade press to running the media desk for a consumer-tech launch that earned 140 placements in a quarter. I write the release, the pitch and the talking points, and I keep the reporters who cover my clients answering the phone. Looking for a senior specialist role with a team that measures its coverage.
Philadelphia, PA
+1 215 555 0147
sabine.tallis@postbox.io

Hard Skills

  • Media relations
  • Press releases
  • Cision and Muck Rack
  • Google Analytics
  • InDesign
  • Crisis communication
  • Social media management
  • Event coordination

Languages

English

French

Spanish

Interests

Tennis

Yoga

Illustration

Literature

Work History

Mar 2023 – Present

Public Relations Specialist

Lanternlight Communications

Philadelphia, PA

  • Run the media desk for a consumer-tech client: 140 earned placements in the launch quarter, a third of them in tier-one outlets.
  • Draft and place two to three releases a month and brief three executives before every interview.

Jun 2021 – Feb 2023

Junior Public Relations Associate

Rookery PR

Philadelphia, PA

  • Built and kept the media lists for four clients, 600 contacts across trade and regional press, and logged every placement.
  • Wrote first drafts of releases, newsletters and social copy for five channels a week.

Education

Sep 2019 – May 2021

Master's Communication Management

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Sep 2015 – May 2019

Bachelor's Public Relations

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Certificates

Google Analytics Individual Qualification
Google Skillshop / 2024

Accreditation in Public Relations (APR)
Public Relations Society of America / 2025

Skills Summary

Research

  • Audit a client’s competitors and coverage before every campaign, and turn the findings into a positioning brief the account team works from.
  • Track consumer and press sentiment across four monitoring tools and report it monthly with a recommendation.

Writing

  • Write releases, pitches and talking points for five channels a week, and speeches for executives at two industry events a year.
  • Edit the client newsletter that goes to 12,000 subscribers with a 46% open rate.

Social Media

  • Plan and run social campaigns aligned to each launch, the last of which lifted brand mentions by 25% in a quarter.
  • Read the analytics after every campaign and put the next plan on what worked.

Atlas template

Sabine Tallis, Public Relations Specialist

Sabine Tallis is a public relations specialist five years in, from a junior post at a boutique agency to the media desk of a consumer-tech client at a larger one, applying for a senior specialist role. An agency hires on placements and on the writing that wins them, so this resume leads with a skills summary in three titled groups, research, writing and social media, each with a number in it, before the history and the degrees.

Why this resume works

  • The profile carries the one figure a PR lead reads first, 140 earned placements in a launch quarter, and the current role repeats it with the share in tier-one outlets.
  • The skills summary is three titled groups, research, writing and social media, each two bullets with a count: four monitoring tools, five channels a week, a 46% newsletter open rate, brand mentions up 25%.
  • The junior role counts the unglamorous work that agencies actually hire for, 600 media contacts kept across four clients and every placement logged.
  • The hard skills are a tick list of tools and practices, Cision, Muck Rack, Google Analytics, crisis communication, so a screener finds the software without reading the prose.
  • Two certificates, the Google Analytics qualification and the APR, each carry their issuing body and year, and a master’s in communication management sits over the public relations degree.

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