Advertising Agency Recruiters, what’s your take on senior level creatives portfolio sites:

Care to get a sense of the person, the About Me section is a good narrative, authentic, interesting?
Does it matter?

With books looking so formulaic, having more personality & originality seems like they’d be assets, or no matter if you’re award-winning’ since more imp?

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I know you recruiters must get tons of emails a day. For that reason, I keep my emails as short as possible. In other words, pretty vanilla. Name. Inquire. Short sentence about why I’m (cont.)

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