After the last few days of combing through initial applications for our latest job posting for a copywriter It was necessary to provide some key pointers to any applicants before you consider applying. This may also help other creatives understand how a Creative Director or an HR may treat your application.
A few years ago I took a few professional presentation courses and was told that I should lean into my natural insecurity against talking loudly or being aggressive and instead focus on being the calm, collected voice of reason in the boardroom. Here are some things I’ve learned along the way on how to find my own comfort zone…
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As creatives, playing the long game can be excruciating. Your head is almost always going a million miles a minute and new ideas are kicking out old ones constantly. Our built in need to create and produce things is in our nature. So, when it slows down to a snail’s pace of revisions, concept rounds, strike outs or delays in a project it can really kill your motivation…
The creative long game SUCKS. But you can overcome it with these quick habit changes. Read More »
Originally Posted on LinkedIN. I’ve written multiple articles and had long discussions on having empathy for your client and your customer. It’s your understanding and ability to live in their shoes, fear their fears, feel their joys and try to get an idea of what they truly want that is the invaluable secret sauce you
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Originally published on LinkedIN. I have felt for much of the past decade that the difference between your career advancing is empathy. Or rather – a lack of it. I am a firm believer that a lack of Empathy will ultimately inflict upon us a bitter resentment for the same people we were meant to
ARTICLE: Lack of empathy is holding you back. Read More »