In June this year I started in a PR role after spending most of my 20s in marketing. It’s definitely been a learning curve but I’m enjoying the connecting with other companies directly…it’s much more human scale.
The part I can’t easily get my head around is all the networking. My department is small only 4 people and at least once a week or more usually each will announce they are having a “get-to-know-you” lunch or “networking drinks”. These consist of meeting people from other companies who do similar jobs. I know it’s not clients because I know the client roster.
How do they do it? How do they organise it? What do you say on the lunch? I feel like it can’t be about the job because surely all PR jobs are kinda the same. It just all seems complicated. 
Of course I’ve met colleagues outside the office if there’s a specific reason. But just a get-to-know-you chat? I mean, surely people are busy!
Please help me with this. I tried asking but got vague answers like “oh I met her at a party once”
(And yes shamelessly posting for traffic…sorry 