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Let’s get started Staffing is like casting. Our clients call us looking for someone very specific: a person with the right skills, experience, work style and availability for the position, in addition to a great attitude and professional approach. If you fit the bill, chances are you'll get the job. We made this video to explain ...more +

Portland Design in the 1960s: Tom Lincoln

“I had a crush on the Jantzen smile girl, Dolores Hawkins,” relates Tom Lincoln with a grin. “One of my first assignments was for Pendleton, to help direct the photography for an ad in front of Robinson’s Department Store in Los Angeles,” Tom recalled. “In the ad, we were using a lamb as a part ...more +

20 Tips for Knowing When to Quit Your Job (And Do it the Right Way)

Knowing how and when to quit your job is a question you will face at some point in your career. “How do I know if it’s me or the job?” “What if the grass is always going to be greener on the other side?” “Should I wait until I have another job before I quit?” ...more +

How to Get Over a Job When It Breaks Up With You

Many people say that a job is like a relationship. Those people mostly want to sound insightful over brunch, but there is something to the mentality that we are in a relationship with whoever keeps us employed. The routine of spending at least 40 hours a week honing a particular skill set and then using those ...more +

Playing Dress-up: The Job Interview

For such a ubiquitous part of professional life, job interviews are surprisingly difficult to dress for. The traditional conservative suit and tie is gone, outside of stodgier fields like finance and law. Button-downs, jeans, bright colors, chic workman wear—the options can seem limitless at times. Limitless, that is, until you realize that you’re dressing so that your ...more +

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New TLDs—A Buyer’s Guide to .design, .guru, .diamonds etc.

In the beginning, there was .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, and .net. And the Internet was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the nerds. These were generic top level domains, or gTLDs, and even though they had intended purposes, just about anyone could use them as they pleased (except .edu ...more +

Relocating to Austin Takes Cojones and Connections

During one of my first job interviews in Austin, I was asked, “tell me something unique about yourself.” I responded, “I’m from California!” My interviewer shook his head and replied, “everyone is from California…” Living in Austin for the past eight months, I've met maybe four people who are actually from here. Everyone I meet is in ...more +

Warning Signs that Your Job is Killing Your Advertising Career

I have reviewed thousands of portfolios and interviewed dozens upon dozens of job candidates. That experience taught me one thing about career success: working at the wrong job starves career potential. Many of those not offered positions with our agency had stayed too long in the wrong job. Their work wasn’t where it should have ...more +

Seven Red Flags to Run Away From So You Don’t Enter Into a Toxic Relationship… With Your Client

Hey, we’ve all been there. You meet someone new at an event or maybe through friends of friends. Through conversation, you learn that you have so much in common with this new person — like, you both love all of the illustration elements of Starbucks’ Reserve line and you are both disturbed by how youth-obsessed ...more +