Pretty damn frustrated right now: Was away from my cell phone for no more than ten minutes on Friday while blow-drying my hair, during which the HR woman from Ogilvy called me and said she wanted to speak with me and requested that I call her back. I called her maybe five minutes after she left that message, but got no answer. I left a message on ( Read more... )

Interview this morning at Tribal DDB, the interactive branch of DDB Worldwide (a huge international agency). It was a weird interview, different from all the others I've had so far. The interviewer was a lot more conversational but asked some difficult questions. He smiled a lot at my answers, but I'm not sure if it was a "Yes, I agree with what ( Read more... )

Don't feel like writing a whole lot -- I just sent out thank you letters to each of the six people I interviewed with at Ogilvy yesterday. That's right, six. All from the Gillette team. It sounds like a really, really interesting account -- they work on adapting another agency's creative work for all of Gillette's international markets -- but I get ( Read more... )

I decided to take a break from all this job searching and went to visit Pauli in Virginia Beach for Halloween so we could trick-or-treating together, as is tradition. Being the poor, unemployed recent college graduates that we are, we visited a local thrift shop for costumes. I found Pauli a wonderful, if slightly small, elephant suit. The costume ( Read more... )

This morning I had a call (went straight to voicemail) from Samantha, the recruiter who got me the Kirshenbaum Bond interview, saying that the execs at KB LOVED me and think I'm GREAT and want me to meet with the rest of their team AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Then I called her back and told her that, after speaking with one of the VPs in particular (who ( Read more... )

Well, I got my first job offer, and I turned it down. The HR woman from DCA called yesterday to offer me the Assistant Media Planner position I had interviewed for, and asked for an answer from me by the end of the day today. I had a really difficult time making the decision (complicated by my inability to contact my family for advice due to the  ( Read more... )

Oh yes, two interviews on Wednesday.

1. Kirshenbaum Bond -- Administrative Assistant: Met with their HR person, told her about my background. Found out about the position -- it's definitely secretarial work. It's in an advertising agency, so there would be advertising-related work, but still plenty of answering phones, coordinating schedules, ( Read more... )

Woken up this morning by the HR woman from Ogilvy. (I try my best not to sound like I was sleeping 20 seconds ago, but somehow they're never fooled. Hey, it was 9:30. Nothing wrong with sleeping til 9:30 when you've got nowhere else to be.) She said my interview went well (or something like that, I don't really remember, I was half asleep!) and ( Read more... )

New career path: I'd like to become a college football referee, just so I can get close to the other refs, and poison them.

P.S. Submitted my "thesis" yesterday. Luckily it's not a real thesis and only a "thesis" thesis, and I don't have to defend it or anything. I'm done.

1. Woken up by phone call from recruiter (the new one). Said she has a great job available at Kirshenbaum Bond, as an assistant to the heads of the interactive department. It's basically a secretary, but they want someone who's interested in working in advertising because they promote from this position -- the girl who has it now was there for ( Read more... )