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This shouldn’t be news to people but it is.
What’s it like producing at 360i NY?
Are we all fucked?
Any 🐠🐟🐡 at this Sagmeister thing downtown? (LA)
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It's the industry...it's difficult to get your foot in the door as a junior.
My partner and I have been working our asses off and there's been a lot of talk about keeping us on freelance until they can hire FT but we're not getting a straight answer. So obviously we're interviewing and having conversations in the meantime but it always seems so start and end with a conversation.
The industry favors junior talent. It's probably not "you" but rather your approach. Have you told your team or manager that you are interested in moving to a FT role? What has been your strategy so far?
You better bust ass this summer and then if budget allows they'll keep you
It's likely a mix of industry and market. Lots of marketing ad and design graduates each year. They gravitate to major markets like LA, Chi, SF and NYC, there are only so many positions to fill in those markets even though big agency footprint. Mid markets like sea, den, aus, atl, etc have limited shops but major colleges around them feeding in.
It's a hard industry to get in, given relatively small footprint of legit ad markets, and large quantity of entry level talent supply pool
I went through the same thing last summer. Literally to the T what is happening. They told me on my last day to comeback in two weeks. And stayed on as a freelancer until this June
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Personality is paramount when seeking a junior role. You can be taught job specific tasks and agency workflows rather quickly. However, if there are any potential learning curves regarding personality, employers will run for the hills. That said, if you are light on experience and your workplace ora shines? Best case scenario as a junior, in my opinion.
Yep.
Large quantity of entry level talent? I'm sorry but 90% of entry level creatives trying to get a job just sucks. Not talking about OP. But it could be your case. What sucks is that people aren't really honest... and just say "no thanks" instead of providing constructive feedback. There's a huge entry level problem in advertising. Mostly it's because "nobody has time for that". But honestly, ad schools are more interested in sucking people's money than giving the support juniors need to land a job. Be proactive. Be restless. And most importantly, learn as much as you can with seniors. Being able to manage yourself makes a world of difference. You'll never learn how to if all you do is sit at a desk waiting for someone to throw you a bone.
Yes it is insanely difficult. Honestly the interns that we give offers to are often hired because a CD "adopted" them aka saw something in them, took them under their wing, and advocated for them. Try to find a mentor and it will be a lot easier. Also, strangely enough, the bigger the agency, the fewer juniors we had. Most just freelanced until we had to hire them because they were invaluable. Freelancing could be a good foot in the door!