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 [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Smell that? It’s Panama Jack dissipating off the skin of America’s workforce.
Summers are always a tough time to get hired. And recession summers make it all but impossible. But recession or not, the days right after Labor Day bring with them that new-three-ring-binder smell of optimism. Creative directors are back from their lake houses. HR [...]
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.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Have any stories you want to tell? Got questions about the beta site? Lemonade? Swing by at 2:00 PM EST. We won’t bite.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
With less than the three years of experience and barely two years of financial comfort under my belt, I was laid off in May. Like a lot of folks here on PFTA, the time off allowed me to have some fun this summer. But unlike a few of the contributers, I want back in.
I still [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
We are mere days (hours?) away from launching the beta for the new site. In the short term, http://pleasefeedtheanimals.com will still point you to the blog. But anyone who is currently active on this site will be asked to register onto the beta (which will probably be something like beta.pleasefeedtheanimals.com) to start uploading their bios, [...]
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 [...]
Over the last few months I’ve come to realize that to graduate from college these days is to awaken like Brendan Fraser in Encino Man – confused, scared and armed with tools that are obsolete.
So what’s the problem, and what are the some of the caveman tools we’re wielding?
Ugh – No Want Work For Someone [...]
“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 [...]
