Any tips on meeting new clients? Any events that possibly work or strategies?

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with discrimination as an Asian in the workplace? In my company it seems like it’s a white boys club where and they just promote white ppl because they’re white. And then they have a lower bar for promotions for minorities (traditional minorities likes Hispanics and African Americans). Meanwhile they make Asians do all the work. I am not generalizing that this is how it is everywhere but it definitely is that way in my workplace. Any advice?

Every time I speak to my director (at least twice a week), he works in how he is getting older into the conversation(humorously). For instance, he forgot something non-work related, said “sign of old age”. He recently told a story, said, this is how old people talk. He likes to come across as a grandfatherly figure, but I’m not sure what to say in these encounters. It is always an innocent, non work related context. Have you guys experienced this ? What is an appropriate response ?

Starting a new job next week and when do I tell my coworkers that I have a newborn? Male asking.

It appears J Crew is filing bankruptcy this weekend and brooks bros might not be too far behind. What are consultants going to wear when we eventually get back to work??

What women’s walking shoes do you recommend? I live in Chicago and take the train to work so usually change into shoes once I get to the office.

How do you deal with a challenger type of personality? I’m fairly new and I know the senior is trying to teach me the thought process. But she also makes me feel extremely small by the way she phrases her questions. I’m already stressed out not having everything figured out yet and this makes me feel super tense and down.

Do you tell your boss you’re going through a breakup? I’m phoning it in and obviously going to be camera off for awhile.

Currently our marketing team is of one (me) and we outsource quite a bit of other tasks as we continue to grow. With that said, one of the tasks I am currently involved with is creating weekly emails from scratch and I am pretty darn good at them. Yet so many people (several in different teams) have requested to review my work before it’s sent. It’s unnecessary and makes the job less efficient. How can I politely and professionally decline their request?

Anyone else struggle with lots of team events/dinners during the week? I love my team but need me time at night to be my best self. 1 night out is my max. Thoughts on explaining it to team?

I have a virtual interview with Tesla tomorrow for an internship position. What should I wear? This would be first internship, so I’ve never interviewed for a position like this and am not sure how to dress (especially given it’s virtual). Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

How do you deal with stub years who are exceptionally bad? I’m not talking about general cluelessness which is completely expected and understandable, but turning in work product riddled with incomprehensible, grammatically incorrect sentences that would fail middle school English. This is honestly the worst I’ve ever seen. Would you just avoid in the future or raise this with a partner? I don’t even know how to talk to this person about this…

Starting a new fully remote role Monday with a leader that has never had their own admin, let alone an exec assistant. Any suggestions for developing the relationship or training them to properly use an exec assistant?

Giving notice tomorrow. Accepted another offer. Nervous to tell my boss because I know I’ll be leaving them screwed but I’m miserable. Love my team. The client is stupid and the work is soul crushingly uncreative. But still feel guilty :(

Thoughts on a manager texting you to ask why you aren’t online Easter weekend when all of your work is completed and another senior who can’t handle their own work decided to randomly send you their returns to review?

I recently had a specialist partner send me a fairly nasty email after I (a transactional first year) was told to ask them to review something ASAP that had clearly been on my partner’s radar for over a week. Why am I taking the (honestly justified) blame for this? Surely it should be obvious that I’m just the messenger here.

Yet again I’m watching a client fuck up a nice spot so bad I can’t put it in my reel. Absolutely disheartening.

Feeling low these past months. I've been trying to make friends with some people in the project I got assigned to but it doesn't seem to work. They're a closely-knit group. I'm trying to look for...

Baby due end of Jan and wife taking full maternity leave (12 wks) and then back to work. Considering taking paternity (16 wks) after that. How and when do I tell my various teams and file paperwork?

What do you value most to make a work environment attractive to you?

There’s no reason you have to put up with a job you hate. I spent many years working in a toxic environment with a boss who gossiped and lead through fear. He wasn’t really much of a leader but basically a foreman. And he could make my existence miserable. I admit that it wasn’t easy to find another job but the bottom line is: trust your guts. If you feel something is wrong it’s because it probably is. Don’t second guess yourself. Look for options and and fight for your mental health.

What would you have done if you were working with Derek Chauvin when *that* happened?

Got offer from HCL and cognizant. Wondering which one to join? Cognizant offering 19 and HCL offering 21.

Aldi at Digitas? 👀

I can do referrals to Qualtrics feel free to DM me here if you either work an engineering or are customer facing.

Looking to get in the field of Project Management or Product Management. Currently working in the field of Ad Operations. Any advice where to start and what steps to get into one of those fields?

What is tech consulting hike ? For staf 3 senior

Hi,
If anyone interested in NFT project HMU. Looking for partners

What’s your unpopular opinion…. I’ll start…Beyoncé isn’t that amazing

Is it wrong to work low budget favors from the small local production/post shop and never give them a chance at a regular budget job?

How has the NY "state of mind" lasted so long when everyone's working from their suburban home or parents' basement?

Hello everyone! I am a Senior Technical recruiter with a little over 8 years of experience.

I would love to know if anyone is hiring any Recruiting Lead, Recruiting Manager, Talent Acquisition Manager/ Director level roles that I may qualify for.

I am trying to get into a level of leadership that way I can be able to make a difference and to be impactful.

I lead with DE&I, compassion, empathy and initiative in everything I do. I know I can be an effective leader.

Thank you!@@

Moving back to ATX from NYC early February of next year to be closer to family, and looking for a new job. Have 2.5 YOE in consulting (primarily financial services) and also did a data science boot camp this past summer. Does anybody know of any roles at the intersection of strategy and analytics? Alternatively, has anybody had a positive experience with an external recruiting agency?

Ok, I’m gonna say this. Schools should open. Now hear me out. My wife is a family doctor, she is working insane hours, she is treating covid patients, and there is a lot of days when she has to stay at the hospital without coming home. My neighbour works in a local grocery store, so he has been at work since the Day 1 of lockdown. So if you need medical help, or want to eat, it’s ok for those people to be at work, but their kids have to stay home? Cont’d >>

any recent stamping experience in Canada?

Anyone have slow months where you burn through a lot of your allotted pro bono/professional development hours to keep hitting minimum daily hours? The past few weeks have been like this for me. Should I be concerned (I.e., will this reflect poorly on me, come review time? Will I have dug myself too much of a hole if I keep burning my non-billable hours?) I’ve been asking partners if I can assist in any projects so I can fill my plate, but I’ve only gotten small (4-6 hour) tasks handed my way.

What are your favorite resources for getting smart real quick on a category?

How’s it going? Any good pitches or wins last couple weeks? We are a prod co and feel a lot busier! Prepping a big shoot and bidding jumped up a lot.

Does anyone know where to source an updated list of search consultants. My 4A’s list is terribly outdated.

I’ve seen a lot of agencies bring in freelancers for new business work (either production or concept creating). Would you ever consider bringing in a new business consultant or pitch expert?

I've been starting to work more in new biz at my agency and the president said in a meeting this afternoon that he wants to increase our close rate to "at least 50%" once we're at the pitch stage.

Curious about the biz dev career track. Have you stayed in biz dev your whole career? Or did you start in biz dev and use it to move into another role? What did you move into and how?

Hi! Has anyone gone to one of the GDS group CMO Insight Summits? Is it worth the large price tag?

10 days to turn around a RFP.
Agency: request schedule Q&A session
Client: Let me check schedules. Wednesday next week works for our team... (day 6 of RFP) 🤦‍♂️

Are you doing cold reach outs? Working only known connections? Or employing an automated marketing system? How you getting bid opportunities? We work connections and a lot of cold reach outs. Trying to get automated marketing of some type up and running.

How do you NewBiz pros say “no” to doing work for free as part of the pitch process? What’s your “script” for saying no (all my past efforts have only pissed prospects/procurement off)??

Hello biz dev folks! How are pitches going? I know summer is upon us but curious if the threat of recession is affecting anyone. I had my first client say they were holding off on an initiative due to that. But it could just be a good excuse. 😂.

There is a unventilated chamber of hell reserved for clients who schedule pitches during the final two months of the year.

Anyone know of or use a good pitch strategy guide/template that helps focus and structure the final deck? Any best practices you could share would be appreciated. Thanks!

Besides the infamous google sheet and Glassdoor, where are you all looking to make sure you’re been compensated appropriately? I feel like our little niche is tricky to do proper comp research on, but it’s possible I’m missing something…

I’m about to graduate in May, looking to start out a big agency (Ogilvy, Starcom, Edelman etc.) and I have my sights set later in my career to work in new business. What stepping stones can I take?

If you know any BD folks looking for work my agency (NYC) is hiring. DM me for details (are there DMs in fishbowl?)

Anyone have any experience landing a porn account?

Anyone know of great junior talent looking to get into New Biz? We’re hiring

Anyone have any intel on who led the last review for Wolf/ sub zero? Shot in the dark here for some intel.