A recruiter from an agency I admire reached out to see if I’m interested in an ACD role. BUT it is for one of their Pharma clients. How can I tell them I’m not interested in that category? I would like to work with them, but on their traditional/consumer brands. I want them to consider me for other opportunities :-/

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Thanks reaching out! I admire the work ____is doing but I’m not open to pharmaceutical opportunities right now. I’d love it if you would keep me in mind for others kinds of opportunities at ______.

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Just be aware that depending on the size of the agency, pharma may have its own recruiters.

what SC1 wrote is solid

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How much do you admire them? If it's a dream agency then take the pharma gig and work the internal channels to help out on overflows for other gigs. I took a dream agency gig where they stressed I'd be 90% on a single tech client, but within a few months I was working on three other accounts and won a bunch of awards on one of those. To paraphrase GI Joe, "Being there is half the battle."

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