Except for my first copywriting job, I’ve always worked in-house at tech companies or Fortune 500s. I want to go agency side but I’m afraid I’ll be perceived as less-than. Are there ways to overcome that stigma in advance when applying?

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It all comes down to your portfolio. In the agency world, you’re judged based on the work you’ve made and not much else. No one cares about what degrees you have or where youve worked in the past.

No one will think less of you because you’ve been in house as long as your work is good.

And even if your work isn’t very good, you can overcome that stigma really quickly with a couple of solid productions once you get into an agency.

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DM me!! Looking for an ACD, Copy at Arnold NY and we love untraditional backgrounds.

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Please dm me..
Thank you!

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Should I just list the relevant projects instead of saying I have 10 years experience as a Senior Producer or Executive producer on my resume?

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When you recruiters say at the end of a 15 min call.
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Hi,

I am evaluating offer from Amazon, Dublin (Ireland).

Position- SDE 2 (interviewed for SDE3 but they offered SDE2)
base- 100k euro
First year bonus- 50k euro
Second year- 36k
This is final after negotiations.
Can someone tell me is it as per the market. I have checked glassdoor and levels.fy and it seems as per market but need to confirm.

Thanks in Advance.

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Do you feel like your MBA prepared you for the consulting interviews? Like after the MBA, did you understand how to size up a market and so on?

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Need genuine advise. Got a call from Oasis Resource management pvt ltd. They said that they can help in conducting interviews in canada or UK. Total 5 interviews. They will charge 72k for this and 2k for profile investigation. They claim that under work permit, accomodation, travel cost, meal will be borne by employer for whole work visa tenure along with salary as per profile and market standard.
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Should i proceed with them ?
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I m ca 7+ yoe 32ctc.

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Recruiter hasn’t been very responsive.

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I can see in biglaw not bringing up knowing damn well if you get an offer itll likely be high, but this is a midsize

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I am .net developer basically developed window and web application with the help of vb.net,c#,Asp.net MVC,html,jquery,css,bootstrap, sql server.

Yoe 6yrs not getting much calls , also if getting calls in technical not getting selected.

Where i am doing wrong i am not able to understand need your feedback, or i have to learn any new technologies.

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Thanks in advance :)

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