Getting a Foot in the Door

Bob Akers

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Interviews with advertising agency professionals for students who want to know more about how to get their foot in the door.

19/03/2020

Gary Doyle, Group Creative Director, C-K

Gary Doyle, Group Creative Director at Cramer-Krasselt in Chicago, talks about how he landed his first copywriting job and parlayed that into a successful career at Leo Burnett and C-K.

30 min
12/03/2020

Taylor Styduhar, Senior Recruiter, DDB Chicago

In this episode, Taylor Styduhar talks about what she looks for in student portfolios and the summer internship program at DDB in Chicago

39 min
12/03/2020

Zach Peters, Creative Recruitment Manager at FCB Chicago

Zach discusses the summer internship program at FCB Chicago, what he looks for in creative portfolios, the process of approval of books, and his role in it.

31 min
12/03/2020

Mary Therese Barkhausen, Recruitment Director at Dentsu Aegis Network

Mary Therese, or MT as she's called, discusses her various roles at McGarry-Bowen in Chicago, which is part of the Dentsu Aegis Network. While she's been an account executive and creative recruiter, she currently is a recruiter for account and strategy applicants and discusses what she looks for in each discipline.

11 min
12/03/2020

Ben Urkov, Manager, Customer & Market Insights at Salesforce

Ben discusses his summer job driving the Oscar Meyer wiener mobile, how he landed his first job at McGarry-Bowen in Chicago and ended up on the strategic side of advertising, as well as his experience at Energy BBDO. He also discusses what it takes to be a strategist/planner and his advice to students looking to get their foot in the door in that role.

21 min
12/03/2020

Nicole Camacho, Account Executive, Deutsch, NY

Nicole, a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago's School of Communication, talks about her start in advertising on the account side at Leo Burnett, her experiences at Energy BBDO and Deutsch as well as the cultural differences of working in Chicago versus NY. She also discusses what it takes to get started on the account side of an ad agency and how to deliver strong account service.

43 min
12/03/2020

Kate Steinberg, Senior Copywriter, FCB, Chicago

Kate talks about how she landed her first job in advertising and how she's continued to be successful as a copywriter at various agencies, what those experiences were like and her advice for students looking to get into advertising..

52 min

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Interviews with advertising agency professionals for students who want to know more about how to get their foot in the door.

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Bob Akers
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Getting a Foot in the Door

Getting a Foot in the Door

Episodes

Gary Doyle, Group Creative Director, C-K

Taylor Styduhar, Senior Recruiter, DDB Chicago

Zach Peters, Creative Recruitment Manager at FCB Chicago

Mary Therese Barkhausen, Recruitment Director at Dentsu Aegis Network

Ben Urkov, Manager, Customer & Market Insights at Salesforce

Nicole Camacho, Account Executive, Deutsch, NY

Kate Steinberg, Senior Copywriter, FCB, Chicago

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