If you happen to be the extraordinarily rare person who actually reads this blog (really — is anyone out there?), you may have seen the post called Looking for an Advertising Job? Well, we have an update in the form of a Keynote deck titled “2o Things You Need to Know to Get a Job in Advertising.” If all goes well, we’ll be adding the audio narrative that goes along with this shortly.  For now, you can probably take a pretty good guess at what we were trying to get across.

We’ve recently added the blog, Profoundly Shallow (which it ain’t) to our RSS feed. It’s written by long-time ad exec, Jan Edmondson — a person known for his integrity and well-deserved nice guy reputation. Jan recently wrote about some of the things he saw his agency do right and wrong in pursuing and pitching new business. We wanted to share it with you, and that’s exactly what’s about to happen. If you’d like to bookmark the original, this way, please. [Read more →]

If you’re not shy about posting photos on your Facebook page of your last drunken brawl, consider this bit of research from Microsoft:  70% of employers have dinged people because of questionable material seen on social networking sites.  Read all about it, then go do some profile editing.