Big shake up at Havas London with the CEO (and others if rumours are correct) "leaving". Havas folks, how are you doing?

🤬🤬These freaking mosquitoes are killing me. I hate that bug spray needs to be included as part of my going out routine.

Does anyone have suggestions for fragrance free options?

Has anyone had Marriott gift you the next level of status if you’re only a few nights short of the requirement at end of year?

Hi folks, I am confused between LTI and Infosys. Yoe: 6. Tech stack: Java automation. CTC lti - 22, Infosys - 19 + 1 lakhs JB

Why does the P&T org view Suneet as a Pope-like figure?

Clearly he has ascended and is respected, but it’s comments like this — ‘Wow! You got to meet with Suneet?!?,’ that make me wonder. 🤔

What’s the (back)story? What am I missing?

Also the continual request(s) for self-validation is something I have never seen of someone at his level — and I’ve been around (and coached) a lot of executives.

Any thoughts on open relationships? Has anyone tried one? I’m curious. Kinda wanna explore that but unsure.

What do you like about working in tech ?

How do people increase their credit score? Mine’s only around 790/770 for transunion/equifax respectively and its been like that for a while now. I have 100% payment rate, only 3% credit utilization, and 0 hard inquiries for the past 6 months or so. So far I only have credit cards, no loans yet. Thanks in advanced!

Was considering flying standby on Southwest today... lady told me that I may be asked to leave the connection flight because it was oversold... with the MOST serious face ever. United has us scared

Hi folks can any tell me today is the joining date till now didn't receive any on boarding mail

Please tell me how is insurance vertical in coforge@

I saw a video of a Canadian cop face-slamming a woman against a concrete floor. He is now being investigated. Stuff like this makes me so anxious! Does anyone else worry a lot about people in this industry misusing their power?

Currently a first year staff in Risk Advisory in a Mid-Tier Firm hoping to move to Big 4 for either Risk or Cyber. When would be the most appropriate time to make the change? I heard that Senior Staff in mid-tier would most likely be hired as an “Experienced Hire” in Big 4. So would it be smarter to make the move now as a first year staff since I’ll be considered Experienced Hire anyway?

what is the fixed CTC for SA2 in Kolkata AC for Chartered accountant?

Do any of you work in a different country than your company is based? I would love to eventually work internationally (based in the USA), ideally remote, but I’m not sure how realistic it is for most people

Also unfortunately I don’t code so a programming jobs are out of the question, and I know many of those jobs are easily worked remote/internationally

Anyone who has interviewed with PWC recently, how long after the first interview were you notified about second round interviews?

Interested to know: how nervous do you feel about losing your job during these strange days? And do you feel like your company is taking advantage of that at all, knowing you won’t leave?

What do we all make of "The Lists"?

Our senior creative leadership keep talking about winning Cannes Lions and D&AD pencils but none of them have actually won any since 2007 (that’s 14 years 😭 ) and between all three of them they’ve never won more than a couple of silvers, a couple of bronzes and a couple of in-books (that’s with a combined experience of over 60 years 😭). They have no clue 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭. Tell me something about your agency so that I can feel better about the hell-hole I find myself in🙏

Anyone in need of a hybrid to plug a gap in their team/an extra resource in the lead up to Christmas? If so get in touch.

Not in London? No worries. UK based / happy to work remotely.

Junior level, with experience.

Trump is gone! How we all feeling?

Londoners what is your agency pregnancy leave policy? At ours the current procedure for women is: less than 3 years of employment 6 weeks full pay and 12 weeks 50%. 3+ years you get 12 weeks full and

What’s going on at Engine? Seem to be losing a lot of good people including the CSO.

How's Major Players for recruitment in a strategy role? First time to look into UK-based roles, so I don't really know who's a good recruitment firm

Howdy sweet Londoners, does anyone know of any agencies that are currently hiring? Open to both Perm or freelance opps. Thanks!

What’s VCCP’s reputation? Would it be considered a top creative shop?

Visa friends! Had an interview in London, got the verbal, and am doing the visa dance. Started the process 2 weeks ago with HR and now they've ghosted me since then, though they said I have stuff to fill out ASAP. Normal? And am I too American pushy if I reach out to the hiring manager (and my future team) for an update instead?

Is it standard or common for ad agencies to cover egg freezing and/or IVF? It’s a common perk in the US

Anyone found the silver / bronze winners for Creative Circle yet?

Best recruiters out there for senior strategy roles in London?
Looking to talk to someone about my next step

Are there any recruiters in this bowl? What would inspire you to post openings?

National insurance

how’s everyone feeling about this?

Quite miffed as I just got a small pay rise and now I think this plus the upcoming not rises in utilities and inflation will pretty much cancel it out.

This country is fucked lol

Considering moving to London to freelance until I find fulltime, how’s freelance currently looking?

London parents: What’s the best place to buy uniforms for girls? Would also be grateful for any tips for making it feel a bit less…well, uniform.

Opinions about Phantom?

With all these redundancies happening, how can we as a community help each other? We had a thread about new job opps, but it didn’t get much traction... Shall we try again?