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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>
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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>Some good, old advice on new business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 03:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently added the blog, Profoundly Shallow (which it ain&#8217;t) to our RSS feed. It&#8217;s written by long-time ad exec, Jan Edmondson &#8212; 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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2010/01/looking-for-an-advertising-job-give-me-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art director job]]></category>
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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>Social media is not the cure for cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many marketers are treating social media like a steamer pulling out of its wharf on the Seattle waterfront during the Alaskan Gold Rush.  They're bound and determined to be on it, whether it makes all that much sense or not. So, yes, we are believers in social media, but we are believers in using it wisely and with a plan -- not just jumping aboard for the heck of it.]]></description>
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		<title>In case you think advertising isn&#8217;t changing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SVC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This likely isn&#8217;t the first time you&#8217;ve read that monumental change is in the air in the advertising industry. With more people getting their news and entertainment on the web &#8212; not from a TV or newspaper &#8212; advertising spending (and effectiveness) is shrinking faster than a wet cashmere sweater in a hot dryer. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployed? Then get busy.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2009/07/unemployed-then-get-busy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Please write a note</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2009/06/please-write-a-note/</link>
		<comments>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2009/06/please-write-a-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day we received a note from someone who had recently taken a workshop at SVC. Her point we simply to say thanks for what she thought was a great, valuable experience. What senders of notes may never realize is how much some real words put on an actual sheet of paper with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a design job? Help the hunt.</title>
		<link>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2009/04/looking-for-a-design-job-help-the-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.svcseattle.com/blog/svcthoughts/2009/04/looking-for-a-design-job-help-the-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<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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