I have a question about working in-house vs agency. I'm currently in-house doing comms for a healthcare brand and have been here for almost two years since graduating. Love the deep focus, but sometimes it feels like I'm in a bubble. Do agency people actually develop skills faster with more variety, or is that just FOMO talking? What helped you choose?

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I think in general agency life is perceived as a good way to jump start your career because you get so much diverse experience early on but it can also be a lot less work-life balance and in general the people working at agencies are a bit younger without established boundaries. I started at an agency and I stayed for 8 years til I moved in house and I could never go back to agency life now.

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Hi! I started in agency and was in agency world for about ~5 years. Now I’m in house, and have been for about ~3 years. I always say agency taught me what PR is and the important of soft skills: how to organize when I’m working on 3+ accounts, how to build relationships with clients, etc. It definitely isn’t boring and you get to work across the agency to see what others are doing (social/influencer, designers, client experience etc). But as the other poster said, you can burn out quickly. I’ve noticed that in this market, employers want candidates with both in house and agency experience. I definitely recommend trying it out so you can try different sectors as well (healthcare, CPG, retail, etc). It can really only help you!

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Agencies teach you how to manipulate data more than anything else. It’s a lot of cookie cutter stuff at agencies. There’s a reason why there’s such a high turnover at those places.

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