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Well everyone who’s a freelancer calls themselves a CD on LinkedIn, so screw it, why not?!?
That feels like a different situation somehow.
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The proper move is to get promoted to ACD at the job you have, and thats how you move up. Just changing your title on linked in while youre out of work—-even though thats definitely what everybody does now, like freelancers being CDs—-is pretty transparently fudging it.
You have to go where the job is. If “a few” places want you as a Sen AD, then hey, maybe thats what you are. Hunt for the ACD job while youre there, or ask (in 6 months or a year) for a title bump. Those two roads go a long way towards “trying to move up.” But the Linked In self promotion is lame and a cliche at this point.
Also possible that ACD as a position is just going away. Lots of places skip it in favor of a larger Sr. Creative band.
Yeah, you have to be super careful navigating the agencies that don’t do ACD (72&Sunny, Anomaly, 180) you can get leadership experience but you have to really explicit when you interview and you need to prove you can do the job since nobody will remember you’re really an ACD, not a Sr. If you’re chasing title the title, you’re limiting your list of places to ones that have that role. Which I did at my last job. And I’m glad I got that title on my resume, but man was that NOT the right gig for me.
Further up thread, someone mentioned that you may want to stick it out at your current gig to get the title bump. That will give you a little more freedom to do the job for a bit, get it unquestionably on the resume and then, if you’re still looking to move, you can take Sr. again, knowing you have that ACD role on lock.