In Ad-Job Drought, It’s Time to Think Outside the Industry
by Erik Proulx
This article originally appeared in the TalentWorks section of Advertising Age.
During sustained droughts, the yellow-bellied slider turtle instinctively relocates toward the direction of the nearest body of water. He doesn’t wait in cracked mud for a deluge that will never arrive. He doesn’t look [...]
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“There will be an adjustment to her life expectancy.”
This from a doctor to a nurse, who took notes feverishly on her clipboard as they stood by the young Puerto Rican girl occupying the recovery-room bed next to my son’s.
Ben had just endured tonsil and adenoid removal, and had tubes put in his ears to prevent [...]
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The second I tweeted about the PFTA film, I got about a half-dozen replies from people referring me to Cards Of Change.
The premise of the site is simple: If you’re one of the unfortunate many to lose your job, scribble what you’ve been up to on an old business card. Take a picture of that [...]
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Below are just a few of the amazing souls who have been and continue to be enormous helps in PFTA’s War Against Unemployment:
1: Skookum Can’t say enough about them — hire them for any and all web development projects.
2. Ted Villa: The production manager I wish I would have contacted months ago. Our relationship also [...]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
As you may already know, Skookum is the web development company doing Please Feed The Animals’ new, totally custom site. And because they recognize its potential for good, they’re doing it for free.
So I have no problem telling you in the strongest possible terms that you should use them right now for any site development [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Fallon, I was rooting for you. I really was. I loved what you stood for. You gave hope to small, cold towns. You proved great work was geography agnostic. You lured talent away from places like San Diego for the habitrails of Minneapolis.
Sure, you invented scam. But with BMW Films, you also invented a category. [...]
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Networking And Celebrating For The Recently Unemployed Advertising Professional
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First, there’s the PFTA Live Chat at 2:00 PM EST:
Then, there’s the first-ever Animal Social at 6:00 PM EST at Silvertone in Boston:
Online Event Registration – Powered by www.eventbrite.com
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
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In Ernst & Young’s Outline For A Business Plan it says “A business plan can take many forms, [but] in any form, [it] is simply a written representation of where a company is going, how it will get there, and what it will look like once it arrives.” (It then goes on to MBA-ify [...]
Let’s meet in person, share our stories, exchange ideas and have a few.
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