Art director curious about the transition from advertising to branding and a true designer role. Any tips / thoughts / opinions? Grad school? Any expertise, experiences, or opinions appreciated 🙏🏼

What is sales engineering? And how does one get into it?

Would you mind helping an art director who also lectures in art direction schools please: what has been the most exciting or memorable or useful lecture in your Art Direction school/course as students? I want to give real value they can spend professionally and not blah blah, so I am interested in what you people have considered a valuable input.
Please no suggestions like "Change your studies until it's too late" (because I have already done that lesson haha --and they are still there)

How long after transitioning did you start to feel comfortable in your role? Feeling major imposter syndrome in my first 3 months

Looking to leave my auditing position with only 3 months of experience... I'm in a relatively small firm, and my manager's micromanaging is insane... Want to go into advisory, any advice is welcome.

I am interviewing for a Sr. Program Manager role at Adobe. Glass door says ~252k. What a typical base would be? How does adobe feel in the market right now as far as layoffs and expansions?

Hi, I am currently working at Bisleri in a quality control role with 6 YOE. My current CTC is very low (4 LPA) and I have not found any motivation or growth in my role since COVID. I'd like to be in the design industry (Graphic Design or UI UI Design). Currently I am freelancing in my spare time. My question to Design professionals is: how feasible will the switch be? Will I be accepted as an intern/junior designer in my early 30s?

Anyone tried the new Sanctions Certificate (CGSS) offered by ACAMS? Trying to see how difficult it is considering I don't have a lot of experience with sanctions compliance. I have CAMS & work in AML

How can I break into transactional practice from a litigation background?

What is the biggest piece of advice you’d give someone starting a new role/joining a new team?

Equity research associate considering to pivot into IBD. Is this a wise choice? Heard ER is an exit for some of the IB folks out there.

How is job security, annual hike and onsite opportunity in Publicis Sapient?

Role: Product Manager

Please let me know your views.

Any openings for cloudera databricks ?

I am a mechanical engineer and people think that because I am a "mechanical" engineer like I fix cars. It is part of the career, but it is not the same thing. It happens to others that people confuse your profession, or it's only to me?

Currently at BNY Mellon with 10 YOE, specifically in Corporate Trust working CLO/CDO’s (first job out of college). I’ve moved around within the bank a few times but I’m just not happy here nor am I where I want to be in terms of comp . I want to pivot into something else but I have no clue what skills I could transfer elsewhere as what we do is so niche. They sucked me in when they said it would be a FA role but we don’t do any modeling, forecasting, etc.. Any advice/suggest/rec’s much apprecia

Thoughts about going back and forth between agency and in-house? Is it a good/bad idea? Is it even possible?

Hello there! Who else is here? I'm here because I want a change from LinkedIn. Professionally, I'm in biotech and AI

Hey, what are the future scopes for DAACs. what are the general roles DAACs apply to/get after ZS?

Is it a bad idea to leave tech and try something else if I want to go back to tech eventually? For context I have the opportunity to move to London and pivot into a new field for me but the job is at an agency. I know I’d want to eventually go back to tech but paranoid it’ll be more difficult - thoughts?

Will joining NTT Data with client SAP LABS will be good for Automatuon Position Pls suggest

Would it be wild if I added my preferred gender pronouns to my signature? (He/his)

Who has the Descovy business?

Hi fishes,

I got a offer of 26lpa(23.5 fixed and 2.5 variable) from genpact and 21 lpa (20 fixed , 1 joining) from epam, not sure which one should I join. Please if someone can advice me which i should join keeping ressession in mind. Thanks in advance

Someone teach me how to flirt! How do I let this guy know I’m into him?

Any star alliance status match delta platinum?

Third year commercial lit associate. Any tips for dealing with trying to be too perfectionistic with assignments? It causes a lot of stress and maybe even procrastination.

Whenever I've seen if a client wanted to renew a contract or If a firm wanted to renew my contract I've always posed it I'm considering options X, Y, Z but I really enjoyed working with you and need to know if you're interested in keeping me on. Either way I've enjoyed working with you. Just let me know

What are people's opinions on this phrasing?

How serious are the independence/investment declarations while joining Big4’s in the U.K.
My parents have a couple of minor investments in the stock market. Do I have to include my parents investments even if they are citizens of another country and invest only within that country?

Has anyone had their LCA location updated so they can work from a different remote work location than their home office city? Did your firm take care of the process for you?

Hello ! I recently joined Deloitte India. someone told me only Deloitte USI has on site opportunities. Is it true ? Anyone here or know someone who are at abroad on-site from Deloitte India. Thanks

Can anyone suggest the best method to upgrade a qfx 5110 with minimum down time? Other than NSSU?

I have passed the nagarro online assessment test, when can I expect the call from recruiter , it's already 2 days now.

How long have you lived in Toronto and what do you like most about being here?

Thinking about eating dog food to save money. Thoughts?

Edit: All we currently have in the house is Rachel Ray chicken and rice. Is it any good?

Is the salary hike percentage solely based on Rank/rating ? Will there be any consideration for the qualification ?

Happy Friday!!!! How many of you have started using these one-pagers I hear all the Lit teachers talking about? Do you get thoughtful, quality work from Ss?

Anyone have any good advice for getting students to think/respond on their own? So many times when I ask them to write their own thoughts about something and to explain why they hold that opinion, many students get stuck and/or turn to the Internet. And then I find myself repeating, I’m asking for YOUR thoughts about this, not someone else’s. I teach grades 9 & 11.

Hello Fishes,
I am oracle dba with 6+ yrs of relevant experience & have L2 level knowledge/experience of Postgres, MySQL ,Azure (900,104 certified ) and previously worked on Cassandra database currently having 15 LPA how much should I expect from new organization . I usually ask them 30% ?

This may sound odd, but can you run an agency without an ECD/CCO?? (Asking for a friend)

Is anyone hiring free lance/ contract AEs or PMs? Any state.

Has anyone been able to negotiate anything extra or terms when being laid off?

Media arts lab. What does everyone think about it? Culture/work life etc?

Thanks to production, I’ve now tasted every Lacroix flavor. 🤙🏼🤗

Shoutout to the recruiter who ghosted on a meeting they setup! Gotta love the professionalism 👏

Just found out there’s an ECD in a big NYC agency who claims to have won awards, but the name doesn’t pop up in any of the archives.

How do they get away with it?

What kind of work is done by Junior Talent in Data & Analytics?

My partner has become rather dismissive and exclusionary. Noticed signs of this behavior in the past but lately Im seeing it more clearly

Whats the best way to handle? I want to keep the peace

Thank you all for existing on Fishbowl and for being such a supportive community. It’s been a difficult year, but at the end of the day, I’m glad to have people to commiserate/celebrate with ❤️🙂❤️

R/GA vs Critical Mass?

Have you ever seen a client fired in mid-production?

My browser history is failing me and hope y’all can help! I recently stumbled upon a website where some ad folks had compiled a bunch of idea/conceptual thinking approaches and if you clicked through there were past spots that had utilized that idea / way of thinking. I wanted to share it with a mentee and can’t track it down. It was a simple layout: grid of images w/headline naming the idea … Sound familiar?

I've never worked on anything for TikTok and hope I never have to. TikTok is from hell. I was on it one time for about 10 minutes and could feel myself becoming mentally unwell in just those 10 minutes. The human brain is not designed to deal with the sheer amount of sensory overload that app gives you. I'm pretty sure TikTok is one of the main reasons we are constantly hearing about how much Gen Z struggles with mental health.

Given the outbreak, are places actually going to be hiring right now? Recently laid off from 9-5 and my freelance is starting to fizzle.

So now I have to live with the knowledge that someone named Young Gravy is out there

Anyone have a recommendation for books or resources on upping my sales game? Open to in person class, online class, books, etc!

Having to explain every meme, YouTube video, and cultural trend to the old fart creative directors :|

It’s amazing that portfolio schools are still pumping out juniors left and right w/ barely any job prospects beyond freelance and yet, charge these kids major $$$. I gotta get in on that action.