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.
If you are reading this blog, you hardly need to be told that advertising, and those of us who practice it, took a real body blow in this recession. And the people I know who have been bloodied seem to have one of three reactions to it.
A few people who use it as inspiration or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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