Thursday, September 17, 2009
The following is the third in series of articles written by Josh Copeland for people with careers in account service. This feature will appear every Thursday.
Recently, sitting in a quiet corner of a coffee shop just off the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, I had a chance to sit down with Laura Luckman Kelber at Euro [...]
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 10, 2009
The best account people are able to balance the client’s objective with the agency’s, often with hundreds of man hours and several million dollars on the line. Not to mention, everyone’s reputation.
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 [...]
I’ve gone through the interview process several times now since losing my job five months ago. Many gave every indication that I would be the next person on their payroll. Then for one reason or another, the process came to a halt.
Now, I know that sometimes a person just isn’t right for a certain [...]
Filed in Guest Post, Interviewing
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Also tagged advertising, employment, Interviewing, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Networking, Survival, talent, unemployment
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With more bad news from BBDO, The Richards Group and the entire media industry, the pink slip craze is alive and kicking. Layoffs still lurk on every corner. Hiring agencies are still hard to come by.
So if you’re fortunate enough to get a job offer, by all means, pop some champagne. Hundreds of thousands of [...]
Filed in Kvetches, Pontifurbation, Survival
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Also tagged advertising, employment, Freelance, Jobs, Lay off, Layoff, Networking, Survival, talent, unemployment
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Gotham is looking to immediately freelance-to-hire 2 junior AD/designers to work on our Maybelline account. The candidates should already be New York-based and work-eligible in the U.S. The candidates need to be extremely fast in photoshop and have a genuine interest in fashion, beauty and type. Tasteful design style will be key. Candidates should send [...]
My previous partner from Lowe and StrawberryFrog now works for Ogilvy/Hong Kong. She just asked me to pass along that they’re in urgent need of a freelance mid to senior level team for a 3-4 month assignment. If you’re interested, contact Melissa Lin at melissa.lin@ogilvy.com or marie.jenkins@ogilvy.com.
Good luck.
Here are a couple of logo iterations that reference zoo signage. I’m torn between the classic nature of the first and the designed look of the second. So, I’ll leave it up to you. Which should be PFTA’s new logo, and why?
<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1553829/” >Classic Zoo or Designed Zoo? Animals’ choice.</a> <br/> <span [...]
Filed in Ideas, Kum Ba Yah, News, Shameless We-Promo
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Also tagged advertising, Animals, Crowdsourcing, Lay off, Layoff, Logo, Networking, talent, unemployment
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My friend Chris and I do this thing. Whenever we drive into Boston for a Sox game, or any venue where you’d expect to pay near triple digits for a parking spot, we say these four words:
“I always get parking.”
I don’t know what kind of weird karmic wormhole we open with that ritual, but it’s [...]
