I’m a recent grad, so I’ve been interviewing for both internships and junior AD roles. l just got an internship offer at a smaller agency, but I am hoping something full time will pan out soon...do I-

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If you like the small agency then take the internship and crush it – it could lead to a full time role. Meanwhile it’s fine to look at other places while you’re interning but keep it on the DL. Work as if you want the small agency to hire you. It’s quite rare to graduate and go straight into a full time role (in London anyway)

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Take it - especially if you’re confident in the team and agency. Smaller agencies are typically more willing to hire interns and it will look good on your res. Presuming you’d have more free time as an intern, interviewing for FT roles should go smooth. Good luck!

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Full Time is no longer a guarantee in this industry.

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Take it. Its a foot in the door and don’t put something else on pause hoping for full time because full time is rare and usually have people start out as freelance these days anyway. Just take it and keep applying throughout the internship or try to get hired there

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@OP worst case scenario, the new shop doesn’t go in your book / resume. If you get hired right away at a FT place, then ditch the internship for FT and don’t look back. If you don’t get hired right away, then thank goodness you took the internship.

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-do i accept the offer since everything else seems to be going super slow? Do i bring up that i have an offer to the places i’ve interviewed for FT? Can i somehow stall the offer until I hear back from more places? Open to any advice. I’ve previously interned at two large agencies and I feel ready to start my career, but I don’t want to pass up an offer and end up with nothing. The job market honestly seems pretty dry right now, and I liked all the people I interviewed with, Id just prefer something FT for the sake of pay and job security.

Take it and keep looking. While there, ask if the agency can pay you a bit. Then just before your internship ends ask if there is a permanent place for you in the agency as a junior creative. Talk to your manager after you have done some good work about your desire to work there (this is of course if the experience was good)

would it be, in a way, backtracking, to go from 2 large and well known shops to somewhere i never even heard of until i applied for an internship simply because I haven’t found much else out there at this time? I already spent my summer interning right after graduation (it went great and i built a lot of connections but they didn’t have the budget to hire any of the creative interns ft, unfortunately) and i’m worried going somewhere small with virtually no exciting creative will set me back creatively and prevent me from going somewhere I’d dream of working later on...I feel like I’d be going from a “better” internship to a not as good one. But I also don’t want to be ungrateful or pass up what could be worthwhile. I also have a few FT positions that I’ve had multiple interviews for but they’re on less of a strict timeline since there’s not necessarily a set start date like there is for an internship...Don’t know how to gauge if any of these FT opps are realistic

@CD So it wouldn’t be frowned upon to leave the internship before completion if a better opportunity came my way? Trying to get a feel for the proper etiquette here. Don’t want to burn bridges, but also don’t want to turn down a better opportunity if one comes my way.

For a full time role it would be frowned upon to leave so soon. But for an internship I think people would understand, and be excited for you. (If it’s an “internship to hire” situation where they are just trying you out for a FT role, then it’s somewhere in the middle.)

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