my boss made me senior instead of giving me a raise and i feel like it’s messing with my job search. don’t have the years/work most seniors have under their belt, but i also don’t wanna undersell myself in interviews. any advice?

Hey fishes need 11 likes help me out

Posting so that I can receive enough likes to DM for job referrals

What about putting paper in IBM just after a year, will they try to retain and match the expectation ?

Hi,

can someone highlight as how much we can expect for band 8 with 14.6 yrs exp as a security professional.

Interesting all the noise about these PPT, my take:

The pandemic took all the upside of an IB analyst life (client meetings in person, fancy trips, suit up, worshiped at networking events) and left all the juniors with the downside (long hours, monkey-like type of job, aggressive work environment).

Not that the complaints are not sort of legitimate but you may need to revise the decision-making process that led you to accept a return offer. Specially if you were looking for less hours.

New project, new massive excel file that I keep making mistakes on. Tips on error validation and performing QA?

Hello! I work in change management and am assigned to an IT POM transformation. I’m still in my fact finding/change readiness analysis phase, but struggling with the senior leadership team. Does anyone have any lesson learned or best practices in eliciting feed back from senior leaders? think SVP and above? I thought about focus groups, but their time is limited. Also, survey response rate tends to be low for these guys. Any ideas???

I am a Technical consultant with 7yoe. I want switch to Management Consulting. Looking for tried and trusted roadmaps.

What health/pharma agencies are in SF?

Ted Royer helping JL win VW. Rumor or true?

Thank God someone started this! What’s our first discussion topic?

Everyone's still arguing about if Pluto should be a planet, and here I am just thinking about how awesome it is to have ICE VOLCANOS...

Will my firm pay my bonus if they pay it out 9/30 but my last day is 10/1?

When @opentext is planning to bring employees back to office in India ?

Any recommendations on brushing up on PowerPoint?

Can anyone let me know if mental health teletherapy companies pay out a Christmas bonus for their providers?? I am truly curious although I suspect they don’t.

Found out I got promoted to an S1 role.. with a 5% raise in a regional firm’s TAS/Valuation practice. Is it even worth negotiating a higher raise or should I just look elsewhere?

How many of you have met your significant other at work?

How do I be a decent manager to a coworker who's upset I've been promoted twice in two years and they haven't? We started out as coworkers, became decent friends after a few good moments, but went back to simply coworkers after they flubbed a few projects and I had to step in to clean up. I'm non-confrontational but year-end reviews are right around the corner and I'm worried about having to act professional to someone who I got too close with and who now hates me.

Has anyone ever worked at an agency in which the project management department was properly utilized? I traditionally was brought up in my career where PM type tasks were handled by lower level AMs. I have observed separating AM and PM tasks into two separate departments just causes communication issues and lazy account people. Account people should have a good understanding of how much effort and time goes into a project. Project Managers are missing a lot of context so blind leading blind.

I'm reading this book on boundaries. In the work section it says I should tell my boss that I can't work after 5 PM. Knowing that advertising work commonly goes past 5 PM...would my job be in danger if I said that?
There's not really a rule book that says I must work until the work is done even though it's an unsaid expectation. Thoughts?

Didn’t know who the CCO is when I was asked about it in an interview... is there anything I can do to redeem myself? I feel like I really dropped the ball on this lol

Hey. An observation. Every post and comment on here for the past month has been negative as fuck. Yes, life is rough right now. But advertising as a paying job is hilarious and we should all take a beat to remember that.

Confession: I never finished hey whipple. Got busy with work and life in the middle of it and never picked it back up.

I’m doing pretty well professionally 🤷🏻‍♂️

Does anyone else feel like people who are generally nice in person and on calls sound mean or stand-offish in emails and text/chat? I get that over-use of friendliness in text can come off as green/immature, but I tend to try and cushion my words with positivity or even exclamation marks/the occasional emoji to show that I don't sound completely unemotional.

Or maybe i'm just an overthinking copywriter who's reading into it too much.

Any good/cool small agencies (50-100) in Chicago?

What do you guys think of JvM / Sports these days?

Agency producers- 3D animatic vs animatic vs boardomatic? Which medium do you think tests better in research?

Looking to learn more about the people behind the agencies. Could anyone tell me who’s actually driving the best work at:

-WK
-Droga5
-Martin
-Goodby Silverstein

Feel free to call out any top talent from an agency not listed above.

How are things looking in LA? Any dates set to go back into the office? I’m currently in NYC and considering a job over there

I feel like I am not good at what I do... but don’t see myself doing anything else.

Which do you prefer?

“Give me a deadline and I’ll get the work done”
or

“when I get this done I’ll let you know and we can figure out when the client will see it.”

Given the outbreak, are places actually going to be hiring right now? Recently laid off from 9-5 and my freelance is starting to fizzle.

Looking for senior designers that knows shopper marketing. Please DM with books!

How’s RGA for a CW?