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		<title>Protected: Be 5% impressed when you meet Leo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Looking for an ad job? The saga continues.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2010/05/looking-for-an-ad-job-the-saga-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 03:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be the extraordinarily rare person who actually reads this blog (really &#8212; 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 &#8220;2o Things You Need to Know to Get a Job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to keep in mind before you post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;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.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for an advertising job? You&#8217;ll need this threesome.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely a week goes by at SVC that we don&#8217;t interview someone who&#8217;d like to break into advertising copywriting or art direction. We&#8217;re delighted to meet them, of course, as our ad classes have been one of the mainstays of our portfolio training for umpteen years. However, we&#8217;ve noticed lately that aspiring ad creatives seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployed? Then get busy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re an unabashed fan of Dave Holloway, the creative director/author/extraordinarily nice guy who knows more about how to get a job in advertising than anyone we know. He recently wrote this post for the blog &#8220;Please Feed the Animals&#8221; for unemployed ad pros that we felt was worth passing along. Is it because he puts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a design job? Help the hunt.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not especially easy to get a design or web job in the best of times, and these days, it&#8217;s even more of a challenge. But it&#8217;s not impossible to land a good spot. It simply requires a little extra planning and effort. Here are some thoughts from SVC on how you can move to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally.  A decent book on getting into advertising.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2007/08/finally-a-decent-book-on-getting-into-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a school that helps art directors and copywriters develop their portfolios so they can land a decent job, we&#8217;re always on the lookout for good resource materials that will help in the cause. We don&#8217;t find very many, but we forgot to look under our own noses. Dave Holloway, a creative director at Publicis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog your portfolio? It&#039;s free, easy, and, smart.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2006/10/blog-your-portfolio-its-free-easy-and-smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Swanson, founder of CreativeTechs, the Seattle-based technology support service for design firms, ad agencies, in-house departments, and freelancers, frequently gives talks and workshops at the School of Visual Concepts. This fall, Craig shared some compelling reasons why the aforementioned creative firms should consider using a blog to show off their portfolios to the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a design firm to hire you.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2006/09/how-to-get-a-design-firm-to-hire-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holy grail for design students and the rest of us who’d like to move up in our jobs is “The Book.” It’s the portfolio that flings open doors, gets job offers flying, and assures us that we’ll live happily ever after (or at least until next Tuesday). But, turns out the book is only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got work? Staffing firms do and they&#039;re looking for freelancers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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