Currently a senior CW and I’m toying with the idea of making a switch to creative strategy but don’t want to start from level 0 again. Any tips? How far does being a creative really get you when making a total department jump? Thanks!

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Read “Truth, Lies & Advertising” by Jon Steel.

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Coming from creative should give you an advantage, if you position it as an asset: your first creative strategy project. Make the argument: creatives are a planner’s internal clients so you have actual audience insight they can make briefings better. And of course your work itself should speak to your strategic capabilities. Be prepared to defend your work from that perspective. All the best. I made the same move many years ago and I still hold that my years as a copywriter help me do my job. Writing is a strategic act, a declaration of intent. And one day you will bring that writer-strategy into a briefing and it will be magic. Here’s to that day.

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Happy to help. Tell me what you’ve done so far in your switching process

Don’t do it. If you can make it as a creative you will always make more than as a strategist.

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