Monday, September 14, 2009
What To Do Right After Losing Your Job – By Jeanne Schad
Note from Erik: The following is the third in series of career coaching articles written by Jeanne Schad. This feature will appear every Monday.
It’s the middle of September — AKA, the end of Q3. Layoffs are coming. You can be sure of it.
If you [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
When an account service person is suddenly thrust into the world of the funemployed, there are even good uses for free time while considering the next job option.
When my husband (then boyfriend) and I moved to Boston, I freelanced for a year pretty consistently. But I always had my sights set on a certain Boston agency whose work I’d admired since I was an undergrad. Long story short, I got hired at that agency. Longer story short, I was let [...]
“What else you got?”
We’ve all heard it. Many of us have asked it. It’s code in our business for “the ideas you have are not fresh.” And we’ve all learned how to push ourselves to try and find fresh ideas. We know the tricks — change your patterns, force yourself into a different mode of [...]
Here are a few tips – all based on personal experience – that have served me well over the years. I hope they do the same for all PFTA readers.
Join your local Ad Club chapter.
It’s surely the most overlooked place to meet folks. First, it’s pre-qualified. The members are there because they want to network.
The [...]
The first time I went through the unemployment process was after 9/11. I was let go in the 13th round of layoffs at my agency (read Joshua Ferris’s book: “Then We Came To The End” and you’ll know exactly what it was like). But I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Before my team [...]
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At first I thought I was hearing someone talk about his 4 year-old boy. But not true. This was something I overheard from a laid off advertising person at a bar the other night. I laughed it off as a joke, but then I started to think about it. Why not be a fireman? Heck, [...]
Filed in Gentle Nudging, Guest Post, Survival
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Also tagged advertising, employment, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Networking, Survival, talent, unemployment
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I Googled Unemployment and Marriage. The combination did not produce the results I wanted. So, I typed Unemployment and Relationships. Again, not quite what I was looking for. It seems Google can’t read my mind…yet.
But I have been wondering about how the current state of unemployment is effecting couples. For us, it’s a roller coaster [...]
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Also tagged advertising, employment, Jobs, Kathryn Proulx, Lay off, Layoff, Marriage, Networking, Relationships, Survival, talent, unemployment
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Note from Erik: In case you missed the news, Greg Thomas has joined Please Feed The Animals as my business partner. Greg was my ECD and then general manager at Brokaw, and has since become a consultant, freelancer, and professor at Kent State University. Please welcome Greg to PFTA.
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“The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in [...]
Filed in Guest Post, Ideas, Pontifurbation, Survival
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Also tagged advertising, employment, Job hopping, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Networking, Survival, talent, unemployment
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People tell me this weekend is Memorial Day.
These people are still employed and use calendars to organize work meetings. I, on the other hand, don’t have much use for a calendar since every day is Unemployed in My Pajamas Day. So it’s no surprise that important dates and major holidays go unnoticed.
But back to Memorial [...]
Filed in Guest Post, Karma, Survival
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Also tagged advertising, Crowdsourcing, employment, Jackie Meyer, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Networking, Survival, talent, unemployment
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