Calling the office Pictionary games “team-building exercises” was akin to referring to carpet-bombing as “delivering new landscaping opportunities.” The games might have increased camaraderie if they occasionally resembled a scene from a Milton-Bradley TV spot, full of laughter and lightness, but this was never the scene in Marketing. The matches ...more +
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Creatives aren’t guaranteed a tidy 40 hour work week. Inspiration (or a client request, for that matter) doesn’t always come between 9 and 5. We wanted to hear about those “off” hours, and what creatives are doing with them. So, we pulled together a few of our favorites to talk ...more +
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How does an employer define their culture? Every company has one and every company looks for "cultural fit," but what does that mean? Hint: It's not foosball and it's not that everyone likes each other. It's much more than that. Yes, having fun and having perks play a role in ...more +
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I was paralyzingly shy as a child and had a lot of social anxiety through college. Then I joined the workforce and had to figure out how to knock that off so that I could do my job. My job at the time was in journalism, which involved the stuff ...more +
6 years ago
You are responsible for managing your career, which means you must make an extra effort to speak up and ask for what you want. Advocating for opportunities at work so that you build bridges, position yourself as a leader, and maintain a good rapport with your colleagues can be challenging. ...more +
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Nearly three years ago I graduated from a small private fine-art college, Oregon College of Art and Craft, with a BFA in Craft with a Concentration in Fiber Art, a degree I obviously pursued because of the straight-forward, lucrative career path that it promised. It seems perplexing that someone who ...more +
6 years ago
If you’ve lived in the agency world long enough, you’ve got your own story – a tale of a dysfunctional family dynamic that prevented you from doing your best work. I’ve got mine, too, and while the specific details are shrouded behind an NDA with my signature on it, I ...more +
6 years ago
We’ve all been there. We’ve all been in a position where we lovingly poured hours of thought, sweat, blood, and tears into work that we think is smart and effective — only to have a client come back and tell us they don’t like what we have done. Instead, let’s ...more +
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