Starting a new indie ad agency and looking for a potential CEO founding partner. Someone who really gets the business side of ad agencies, how to monetize and has a great rolodex of contacts and network to drive new business. DM me your LinkedIn, I’ll follow up with a meeting request to chat (one of many). Obviously the professional cred is important but chemistry, personality fit and shared buy in on my vision for the agency is equally important.

Any wizards fans out there? Love to see this team gel so well this past month

Oral surgeon recommendations in the area? I need to get my wisdom teeth removed.

What is a starting salary for a senior consultant that does energy transformation consulting at other consulting companies? I know GH underpays lower than market, but I’m having a hard time gauging how much more. Not enough reports on Glassdoor for my company and city. Please mention YOE and whether you live in a city with a higher COL. Senior consultant is equivalent to the next level up after entry level at GH.

Seeking recommendations for electric & gas industry/professional association activities to network, raise visibility of our company.

Welcome to DUSI Bangalore club! From sharing news about traffic to any local questions, we can do it all here. We can even organize meet ups in offices for better networking! Isn't that why we are going back to work "Networking" 🙂

What should I reasonably expect from a junior?

I manage a junior developer that's been with the company for about 18 months. I end up providing them of TON of support. I need to give them extremely detailed instructions or they fail. For bugs, I need to point them to a specific function that's causing the bug. For new features, I'm basically writing their method signatures and defining their test cases.

I've tried asking them to do more on their own, but when I do, they fail spectacularly.

How do you hype yourself up to deal with a difficult or problematic client on a weekly basis? I have one client in particular who sends my anxiety through the roof and leaves a knot in my stomach every Monday.

Any recos for directors who kill it when it comes emotional storytelling in short form content? As in :15. Mostly visual, little dialogue.

So abhi diwali gift bangaya ltimindtree gift.
Seems We get advantage club link to select gift of our choice. Same link provided for welcome gift also. Probably one more bottle and cup coming up

Going to be interviewing for the Home Depot summer @Thehomedepot internship in a few days any tips from past interns or Home Depot employees?

For the NJ folks who work in NYC - my potential new employer has offices in both NJ and NYC. The NJ office is a 1.5 hour drive vs. NYC ~40 min commute via train. Still very much hybrid work arrangement. Given the option, which office would you prefer to be based out of and why? Mostly asking from a tax perspective. While I believe it’ll even out when filing, I’d be paying state tax in both states throughout the year, right?

Is anyone here an analytics engineer? If so what do you do, and what are the main differences between your job and a data engineer?

Hi pals! Anyone here currently working at Accenture open to referring me to an Account Exec role ?

When do does pay/class year "upgrade"? Is it end of billable year (ours ends 11/1)? Or is it whenever the new associates start?

Is there any one time home office setup allowance still provided for recent new joiners?

So, I work in an agency, but recently someone reached out to me for freelance writing work. I guess it'll be long form ad copy, as they're asking me for a rate per word...
I have no idea what's standard here

Poll: who uses their lunch break to workout?

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.”

Does anyone feel weird in the DEI space for all the identity politics of representation (which I understand progress is progress!) but it’s still within the system of capitalism because this is still... advertising? - coming from a BIPOC

What’s the email format for le truc? The recruiter there shares a job on LinkedIn yet doesn’t respond there, NOR provide a way to get in touch. The worst.

Do agencies rent spaces out in places like WeWork to give teams some autonomy away from the office?

What’s the most time you guys have taken in between jobs? Is 1 week enough? What’s the perfect amount of time? I have the possibility to take 3 weeks… is that too much?

When a client expects a new campaign with only 1-2 weeks before a deadline 🫠

Does anyone know if Vice Media and internal agency Virtue consider remote candidates?

What’s everyone’s agency doing for employee appreciation day?

Complete the sentence: When you work on pharma …

Say I want to take a break from advertising for a bit... is it impossible to leave agency land and then go back a few years later?

Going in house is the move, right?

Any tricks for keeping up with social content trends? Anyone know of a site that tracks them?

A recruiter from one of the Publicis houses reached out to me about an open position. I'm seeing positions I'd rather have in other Publicis houses. How can I leverage this contact to find the right recruiters for the job I want?

Is New York even worth it for advertising? I just looked for apartments and almost spit out my water on the prices for such bad quality.

I want to quit and give myself a couple months to find a new job and enjoy my life. Someone told me I need to approach my reason for leaving sensitively as I don't want to ruin my connections and references. Any tips?
How do I put in my notice with no new job offer without coming out and saying "this place no longer fulfills me and I want to be able to breath for a couple months when I search for something new" ?

Do brand design / strategy shops have better w/l balance than advertising?

Got an offer, made a counter, they came back and said they’re keeping their offer where it is.

Jobs ok. Could use the benefits. Offer was below market.

Thoughts?