Sterling Brands Discussions

Does anyone work in Dubai or Singapore who can give me an idea what you get paid? Thinking of making the move from Norway. Lower/no personal income tax is the incentive - paying 47% 😭

Complimenting or commenting someone's body at work/in a meeting/in a professional setting is 100% inappropriate, right? Why is there such a debate?

Do anyone know about any HR ops vacancy?

Is this legal? My spouses company just decided to change their comp structure for account managers. It was base + comm, now it’s commission only but nothing changed, OT commission is the same, didn’t get more points, just took away the base pay and said work harder basically. So now they have to worker harder to get $50k they were already making. (Not a decision based on employee performance, they’ve been crushing it. I think the company is just trying to save money they overspent else where)

I want to quit drinking but this industry is difficult. Has anyone ever tried/have tips?

Best influencer search tools or strategies for sourcing?

Do you ever get disheartened by all the content you're pushing out, only to get a few people to engage with it?

I’ve just been invited to speak on a panel (industry event). I’ve never done this before. What’s the best way to prepare? All advice welcome!

Any predictions on what we’ll of our collective work this Halloween? My 6 year old was going to be “An Ice Co Bu-Li Here! Guy” (A+ casting Billy Cowart, btw), but just changed her mind to “a hot dog.”

How long can you go without having anything to do before you get laid off?

@fcb peeps: Who is the head creative at FCB Global? Is it Fred Levron or Susan Credle? Every piece of work that comes out of the agency, Fred immediately posts everywhere as his. But isn’t Susan Credle the worldwide chief creative officer? Who really runs the show?

Help an elderly person: can anyone tell me a high-profile spot that features a tik tok, IG or twitch person? In other words, an influencer who got what could be called a big break?

(I cant think of any, but then it occurred to me I wouldnt recognize them.)

Thanks in advance, hip people

Am I the only person who has been super disgusted to Fishbowl’s response to the Meta layoffs? I’ve been laid off twice in my career but I’m not mad at 11000 people who no longer have jobs just cause they got decent severance while I got a week on my way out. Facebook is hot garbage but I’m pretty sure 0 out of the 11000 were making those decisions. So why are you upset about it? Urgh. Y’all are weird.

PHD media in New York.... any thoughts ? How's the culture? Particularly for Sr. level folks?

Gary Dahl got everyone whipped into a frenzy with "Pet Rocks" and TBH that makes me believe that marketing is like a form of wizardry

Moving into a new role to support marketing efforts of two smaller divisions under our brand umbrella. When I asked my boss what the job description was to create year end goals they told me to write one. . . Where do I start?

How do some agencies take all the awards yearly while others get severely shafted?

I'm a marketer and I'm having a hard time getting my clients to listen to me.

I have been in marketing for 10 years now. I've worked with hundreds of clients and have been able to increase their sales by over $1 million each year.

But every time I go into a meeting with a new client, they ignore everything I say. They just want to talk about their product. They don't seem interested in learning how to market it better.

My sister and I have recently both come to the realization that our parents guilt us into spending time with them or visiting them and the guilt causes us both to shut down. Our dad is the main offender, often reminding us how little time we have left with him, asking us why we’re leaving so soon or reminding us about all the good deeds and sacrifices made. We’ve both noticed this shift in our relationship with our parents after graduating from college and starting our own adult lives. Continued

Anyone else have a formatting pet peeve and get annoyed when people don’t have a blank first column and row in tabs? I.e headers/data in cell A1

My first manager told me this, and I’ve followed it to a T since.

Rant. This guy I have been talking to started making me feel bad about who I am and my roots. About how not American I am. He started calling me odd. I blocked him but now I feel inadequate.

After 4 rounds of interview, HR calls to confirm whether my expected salary was 20 LPA. This is when my current is 19 LPA. I had asked for 25 LPA initially itself and she is now accusing me having increased my ask after positive feedback from the interviews.

Can someone really think that a person will be willing to switch companies at a 5% hike?

Pathetic interview experience with Gartner.

Any non-cishet male folks want to chat? Missing community right now!

Hey guys do you y’all have a strong Salesforce practice?

Does that super conservative guy from KPMG have any comment on Trump's "interview" with Fox and Friends? I just want to know how they ratioanlize Mr. Stable Genius

Hi IBMers
What is role of a senior advisory consultant. Is it similar to solution architect

What are the typical exits for post MBA strategy consultants (think tier 2 e.g., Parthenon, LEK)? Do they typically get a pay cut? I currently earn 90k base but have been getting recruiter calls for 70-80k (all insisting that salary will be lower outside consulting)

Can anyone explain exl hierarchy they are offering me consultant 1 at 21.5 ctc where 19 is fixed. Plus how are the increments and variable pay in exl?
YOE 3.4

How to be good at Sales and have a charismatic personality?
Any words of wisdom? Any great books to read? Any other recommendations?

Feel like this has probably been asked in here 1,000x but...

I have an idea for a web+mobile based platform

I’ve done market sizing, know exactly what it is and how it’ll work, and even have verbal seed funding offers.

But I can’t code.

What do I do next and how do I protect my idea from being stolen?

How does Strategy & Consulting differ from Business & Tech Integration? It appears to me, looking at the profiles of people in these different divisions, that most of the time at the Consultant-ish level, both divisions are just providing Business Analysts? What am I missing?

Hello! Looking at an opportunity with established startup in UK that's just been acquired by a large co. I'm US based and my salary is around $250k (NYC) -I've been asked my expectation without the startup giving me a range to work from (though I've asked). I'm not sure how to reply to them because I have a feeling that my requirement may be out of their range and while I don't want to undercut my value, I also don't want to be cut out of the process because it's an interesting co. Any advice?