👏stop👏doing👏stunts👏to👏capitalize👏on👏Covid👏. It’s tacky and you could easily donate a few dollars to help the impact more than having your name in a trade no one is reading. 💅

If your industry is severely impacted by covid, how is your leadership reacting? Are you seeing more cross-industry collaboration?

Account executive here, who has about 5 years of agency experience. Who else is completely over working in advertising and what steps are you taking/planning to make a career move?

Not looking to make a move anytime soon due to covid but am curious to what everyone else is thinking.

Thoughts from any insiders at havas? Is there appetite for good work, how has the agency adjusted to COVID, are there any new openings on accounts?

Coronavirus and health: has your alcohol consumption gone up during the pandemic? This pandemic had encouraged me to quit for good now.

Hi all! I need some advice. I came in at a lower level than I wanted and turns out, I did a shitty deal at negotiating. I’m up for a promotion (title but not salary bc of COVID) - when salary increases are a thing, how much should I negotiate for? Like percentage wise, with the fact that I’m about 7-10K underpaid compared to other people with the current title?

Are you guys as busy as you were pre-COVID? I'm at a no name and have had two transportation clients not want to sell anymore after the massive hit in March and April

Sick of people saying don't wear a mask. Wear a mask people, if you have one. The CDC says only wear them when you are sick. But isn't that the tricky part of Covid19? That you can be asymptomatic?

Transitioning to become an AE - how often do you guys typically travel (pre-covid)?

How much are you guys tipping grocery delivery, prime etc. during covid times?

I am moving to Bangalore the next weekend, by 17th July. Seems there is a slight increase in covid cases, would it be better to come now or should I ask my manager to come to office after some weeks once everything seems fine?

Do you think independent agencies will be in better shape to handle COVID-related client budget reductions and/or losses?

Or does it not matter and layoffs are equal across the board?

There is almost nowhere to find reliable bonus information on Canadian firms. I’ve heard of year end bonuses ranging from 10-50% this year (not including Covid bonuses). Let’s start a thread posting year of call, rough billable hours worked and bonus as a percent of salary.

5 year call. 1850 hours. 10%.

New York folks:
Are you aware of the CPA exam credit extension to 2021 for NY CPA candidates impacted by COVID19? It’s on a person-by-person basis and you need to request the extension. Has anyone tried doing this yet? Can anyone shine more light on this? The extension would really help me, but I’m not sure what more to tell them in my email than the fact that I couldn’t sit for the exams this Spring/Summer due to test centers closing in NYC.

I feel like working from home has been the death of my dating life. I used to at least go on 4 dates a month, and I was casually seeing a guy for a while. Post covid, I love my work-life balance but I'm never out. I can't meet people sitting at my desk, and I have no local coworkers to pull me out of the house for happy hour.

Anyone else finding it very difficult to get any enjoyment out of account management these days? Any coping tips? I feel like being an account person is especially difficult in the COVID era since so much of what we do is manage communications, ensure the team is set up well etc. None of this feels particularly fun alone staring into the void of Zoom all day ... but the same pressure is still there. I feel like I spend every week counting down to the weekend which kinda sucks.

Going to Charlioftsville next weekend, any wineries, restaurants, breweries, hiking etc...to do there during COVID. Appreciate your insight!!!!

I know EY early promotes had their comp discussions and was curious what other big 4’s are seeing in terms of raises this year due to covid

Anyone expecting layoffs due to COVID-19? There’s an indefinite hiring freeze and most promotions and have been paused. 👀

Hi guys, i made a profile switch into Advertising just before covid and started as a fresher. Currently i have 2.5years of experience and 4L CTC as an Account Executive. Just trying to find out the salary brackets for this role in the industry and what should be my ECTC in case of job switch.

Any one relocating to banglore?

How bad is it to sound shaky during the case interview? I got everything right and nailed the math but I feel like I sounded like I was about to cry even though I was confident 🤦🏻‍♀️

Without asking or confirming, account lead booked an in-person client meeting that requires travel. Who books ~any~ major client meeting without first checking with the team ?

Anyone here 40s never married, no kids?

I am currently working as an Application Engineer at Amazon. I want to move to the AWS team as an internal transfer. Any tips to crack the interview or any referrals.

Hi guys. I have a query with regards to the Income tax proof submission.

So I have claimed exemptions on the following-
1) HRA
2) 5 year term deposit(fixed deposit) under Section 80C
3) Interest on education loan under Section 80E

I have also provided previous employment details.

Guys I didn't know that we have to submit declaration forms as well. Can you please tell me which are the declaration forms that I would need to fill and submit??

Thanks in advance :)

In one interview today with Kundyl. Their expectation is to be available oncall 24*7... With work from office.

They literally got offended and stared at me for asking about WLB...

Seems companies are not learning, even after the great resignations.. the big names... Like TCS, ibm.. are not doing any changes to their work culture and ethics to improve WLB.

Plan to buy a place and currently trying to pick a real estate agent. Some realtors require to sign an exclusive service contract. Should we go with someone that doesn’t require a contract?

Hey all 👋🏻 I’m looking for a referral for the Named Account Executive - Large Enterprise Banking @ Salesforce. I currently work in commercial banking for TD as an account manager and have over 3 years experience in banking and 4 in finance. Anyone have advice to get an interview?

What is Level 8 salary range ? Sadly I am feeling I'm underpaid, if anyone can please share for Pune location it would be helpful.

Has anyone ever done evening team check-ins and found benefits to having status updates at the end of the day vs morning? Asking about this in terms of working from home on an audit. Thanks!

A director in another unit wants to meet me to “continue a conversation we started last year”. He is referring to the time I had asked him if there were openings on his team. That was over a year ago. I am not too happy where I am right now ( I stayed where I was). I also don’t know if he really has an opportunity or if this is just some corporate circle jerk where my current director is trying to “smoke me out”. I don’t speak poorly of my team/work. How would you approach this conversation?

Does anyone have sources of health insurance cases for prep? Having an case interview with an insurance company coming up

Hi all I’m a certified Project manager and Scrum Master with 8+ years of healthcare experience and 3 plus years in Tech as a product manager with some 5 years in service designing. I really need a well compensating remote evening/ night shift position pls can anyone help or refer me? Thank you!

How long should I be on H1b b4 my potential new employer can initiate my transfer?(on opt now).H1 activates on Oct 1st right?Shd I work with current emp for x days before new emp can request transfer?

Have opportunity to work in my firm’s London satellite office for about a year and a half, and then come back to NY headquarters. In good standing with firm and have M&A and capital markets experience. Did not start traveling abroad until my bar trip (did not grow up with the money for trips like that) and think it would be a good personal and professional experience. Any thoughts / advice?

Anyone travelling from pune to mumbai today?

I have a coworker who keeps spouting comparative odds and situations in regards to the safety of the vaccine. Such as: you're twice as likely to get hit by lightening than have blod clots from JJ. It's very annoying and I find it to be really inapprorpriate, maybe because it's pushy or just I find these comparative things to be a bit irrelevant. How does one handle something like that? Can you shut the person down without starting a spat?

I want to test a theory: I feel like the Internet has turned brands into selfies. Their content isn’t about who they are, but about who they think they are. Basically just validation for themselves.

Tired: Forgetting your headphones at home and not having any for your open-plan office for the day.

Wired: Playing metal on your speakers anyway.

Companies that are still making people come in are seriously jeopardizing the lives of their employees. If you can WFH you should. The numbers are FAR WORSE than recorded. (1 death = ~800 infected)

Media Company: You down with OTT?

Agency: What?

Media Company: You down with OTT?

Agency:

Client: Yeah you know me!

Media Company: Who's down with OTT?

Agency: What is OTT?!

Client/Media Compan

This is embarrassing but ... how do you make all the fonts in a g slide deck the same once you’ve copied and pasted from different sources 🤦‍♀️

I’m currently an AD but have always been interested in production. How hard would the transition be? Is it worth it? Would I have to start from the bottom again money wise?

I know agencies across the board did some layoffs right before the holidays, but when do we think hiring will pick up again? Getting to a point where I feel like I need to start thinking about a change.

Let’s settle the “insight” confusion once and for all. What’s your definition?

What are your favorite/must attend industry conferences?

Chipotle put less chicken in your bowl during lunch times. They pretend to be rushing as an excuse to put 6 cubes in your bowl.

Any tips for securing freelance work with US agencies when you live abroad? My work is pretty solitary and I could fly in for workshops or a major presentation.

What big moves/life changes are you guys making in 2020?

LA folks, how do you meet people in this city? Just moved here and have some friends but am eager to meet more. Any tips?

How long does your agency usually give your creative teams to concept new campaign ideas before the first internal review?

Just saw an ad for shoe lifts that said “life’s short, you don’t have to be."

Recruiters that lie...

Torn between confronting my boss about her talking down to me and just brushing it off because letting her know might make her really start disliking me.

Thoughts on what I should do?

What are your top three ad agencies that haven’t been good in forever?

Retail, Social, Pharma. Fuck, Marry, Kill....

It’s so nice that every agency laying off people, have those left standing (and other agencies) trying to hustle jobs for their unemployed friends, but there are also a ton of people who were unemployed prior to Covid...so no severance, job hunting lot longer, and not earning income for longer time...hurting even MORE due to quarantine.