George Parker is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com. Every week he shares his opinions on the advertising world with PSFK.

George Parker is the perpetrator of adscam.typepad.com. Every week he shares his opinions on the advertising world with PSFK.

We live in a time of instability. There’s the economy, political strife, and the use of pop-up everything by marketers everywhere (see wedding chapels, apartments, dance parties, and stores). Well now there’s the pop-up agency.
Digital agency Proximity BBDO’s Belgium outpost has designed ‘The Farm,’ a program for hiring new talent. Seemingly inspired by the recruiting practices of major league sports, it is the solution to their struggles finding talent amidst high local agency competition.
The “agency-within-an-agency” nurtures 12 recruits who will get the opportunity to work on some of the agency’s top accounts. During their time there they will undergo an [...]

The team at marketing blog AdHoles endured call after call to 89 agencies and got the names of 86 recruiters, 68 email addresses and from some of them, found out nifty info like whether they want your full portfolio or a mini book, to contact them via email or phone, what accounts have been lost and won, and most importantly, what positions they’re hiring for.
All this is provided in a nice 25 page book with room for notes on each agency for only $29.
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