Looking to make a move from Corporate Finance to the Account-side of advertising (preferably pharma). With 3+ years of experience in fin, what level could I come in at (AAE, AE, SAE)? Any skills/certifications I should get before applying?

Hi everyone, how is OW in the middle east?

In terms of culture, career progression and projects?

Are their projects more into strategy or how exactly?

I’m interviewing for BCG and had a principal reach out to me for a zoom chat. Is this normal for principals to reach out or is this a positive sign?

Has any creative here ever tried to make the leap to leave advertising and be a film maker, photographer, illustrator, etc.?? I’m so tired of ad agencies and how draining the “creative” can be. Happiness is more important than a nice paycheck for me. Any inspiration success stories advice would be so helpful right now...

Anyone tried the new Sanctions Certificate (CGSS) offered by ACAMS? Trying to see how difficult it is considering I don't have a lot of experience with sanctions compliance. I have CAMS & work in AML

Does sopra has hire and fire policy . (My client interview is not done . They have released the offer without second round )

Which A-list actors/actresses are your inspirations for getting into the film industry and why?

Is it unrealistic to find an exit at 160k base with 5 years of experience (mix of sales and consulting)? After about 30 recruiter calls, none seem to be able to meet that. Is there a solid exit opportunity that I’m missing? edit: in HCOL

ZS or Synechron?
Both offering same package
But I think learning curve will be more in ZS.
Tech Stack: ETL dev
YOE: 4.4

How did current in-house attorneys find their positions? I am currently in big law with 3 years of experience. Seems that most recruiters can only help me lateral to other big law firms.

have an offer from
Target Corporation -- TC 30LPA as a Sr. Engineer(Full stack) And
Rubrik TC 30LPA + 750 RSUS as a Sr. Full Stack Dev
Really confused about wherel should go,
Target tech stack - Java Spring boot microservices, React, Postgres, Mongo(The tech stack am comfortable with)
Rubrik tech stack Python Microservices, Postgres backend and Angular fronend.(The tech stack have never worked with)
comes down to Tech stack and WLB, Where should i join?

Hi All,

I finished my managerial interview today 15th april for cloud support associate and still havent received any outcome of the interview. I finished 2 techincal rounds before and got the results on the same day of the interview. Can anyone help me on this please

Any suggestions for good training courses for tech recruitment?

Hi Fishes,
Need advice.
I am currently working at a prod based company as a QA Engineer in a maintenance project. I joined 7 months back. They offerred me an SDET+DevOps role. And all this while I was mostly working on manual. There is no scope and value to automation in this project.

I have an offer from a service based company with 25% hike from my current ctc. They have offered a API automation project.

Is it wise to leave now or should I wait for an year?

I’m a new patent prosecution associate and unfortunately only just now realized that maybe prosecuting patents isn’t something I want to do long term. I loved copyright (and trademark) in law school, but I have loans to pay off. Should I stick it out in my current role to pay them off before I jump ship to a new practice area or will I be pigeonholed forever to patents if I stay here for 2-3 years?

I am sure this has been something that has been asked many times before but here goes...
I want to become an SEO. What is the best piece of advise you would give me?

Has anyone ever posted a general marketing position? We have an open position on our marketing team but we are unsure what type of position to offer. We have a wide variety of needs but don’t necessarily need to have this future person have all these skills. For example we need someone with great copywriting skills and also need someone who is great at digital marketing. This person doesn’t necessarily need to have both skills but if they did great, but if only one, great too.

Is better work life balance a good answer for why you want to leave in an interview or does that make it sound like you can’t handle stress/ your complaining?

Team is already talking about eating hours. My utilization is down cause I was in unassigned for a month in Dec/Jan. What's worse pissing off the partner or having a low utilization? -staff 1

Has market correction happened for L7s? What is the avg fixed component for L7 and L8 after market correction.

Talking about D&S and C&I

Any Bay Area based PE Ops in house or portfolio open to networking?

Had my sapphire preferred for 4 years. Can I downgrade to a freedom today and re-apply for a sapphire after a couple weeks to get a new bonus?

What are the most impressive innovations 💡 that you have seen in Life Sciences recently?

Looking for jobs in media! I was a casualty of covid-19 and have been looking for jobs over the past 8 months. Is anyone’s company hiring?

I am the first HR professional at a small company. I am looking for an easy to use platform for performance management. I have used Bamboo and Paylocity in the past. Eventually we will want something that has a payroll component as well. What systems have you used and liked?

When is it either allowed or seen as OK to start using FTO? I recently started here and while I’m not looking to slack off and take time off, I just want to know how it works. (Plus, I don’t want to not use something that I can or should use.) Elementary stuff, I know. But I’ve freelanced my whole career until now. Thanks

Do we get product discounts on Google hardware that we want to buy for personal use?

I think I’m ready to leave public accounting. Where do I even begin? (See more in comments)

What audit role did you enjoyed the most and which audit role you worked the hardest? ( Staff, experienced staff, senior, Manager, senior manager, etc)

Looking for licensees banker to join chase bank in clearwater area?

I want to hear it all, let it out. Why did you hate HRC? Or you just felt she couldn’t be president because she was a woman?

Hey! Heading to LA later this week for work. Will be with the team most of the time but hoping to sneak out to a late night or early morning meeting. Any recs? Staying in DTLA. Thanks! ❤️

Could anybody provide any insights about the role of an acon in the deal advisory- deal origination team at KPMG

Best time sheet system you’ve ever tried in a job?

Has anyone been able to negotiate anything extra or terms when being laid off?

Thank you all for existing on Fishbowl and for being such a supportive community. It’s been a difficult year, but at the end of the day, I’m glad to have people to commiserate/celebrate with ❤️🙂❤️

Feelings about project managers? Good, bad, otherwise?

Has anyone tried LinkedIn Premium while on a job search? Is it worth it, would you recommend, and why?

Does anyone still play video games? Guilty pleasure, but sometimes feel a bit immature doing it

Worst email accidentally sent to the wrong person? Yours or anecdotal...

Can we please be done with vertical video? It’s completely opposite the human field of view, looks horrible, no camera other than a cell phone shoots it. Seriously dreading IGTV.

What’s the biggest difference between junior and mid creatives?

How many agencies give cost of living/yearly raises vs just a “yearly bonus” ?

Can ya guess which one Barkley is?

What's the perception of BBDO NY these days? Still good?

Can we return Donald Trump to Nordstrom? I hear they have an excellent return policy.

What’s the best way to blindly reach out for a job? My dream agency is one of those ones that never seems to actually post job ops. No real connections yet, either.

Media arts lab. What does everyone think about it? Culture/work life etc?

I was furloughed yet it doesn’t start until Friday. Per the VPs, this week we have to “transfer our knowledge” to our bosses. Bosses who haven’t been on these projects. Any advice?

How do you create the visual direction of a print campaign for example? Is it generally just about creating a mood board that sets the look and feel? Should it be specific (as in drawing or illustrating) with the pose and the framing?

Cause my thinking is more of the former where you give the photographer their own take of the idea. Curious to know how you do it.

What do you put on internal time when you are not booked? (You are watching YouTube videos or shopping online)

Here’s to the introverts finally getting a chance to have a little control over how and when interactions happen with others.

Any guidance about taking a job at a social agency? Is it as bad as everyone says it is?