I love a good hug. I love to greet people with them – even folks I don’t really know that well. I even hug people in my life that I don’t have a lot in common with. It can trip them up a bit when I get into their personal space like that – and [...]
Keep Calm and Carry On is the first thing I see each time I enter my office. According to Wikapedia…”Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of World War II, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of invasion.” [...]
As with any new job, you get a lot of questions from friends and family… How do you like it? Are the people nice? Where is it? My answer to that last one, “Bakery Square,” always gets their ears perked up. Everyone I tell seems to have a story or memory of visiting. Built in [...]
We’ve been on a hiring spree lately and as one of the hiring managers, I got to see a menagerie of application and interview approaches – some great, some good and some downright awful. So, what’s it take to score a sweet job here at Current? Well, I’ll tell you! Read the job posting carefully [...]
One of the best parts of being the Print Diva is that I get spoiled rotten by my Print Partners. I often get invited to events and lunches. During a certain week not too long ago, I received 3 invitations for lunch! I happily declined all invites with a little Diva twist!! I asked each [...]
Our recent influx of staff has required that the Traffic Department, Department heads and our Developware CSR to have a set of “process” meetings to discuss how the whole company and each department can more effectively and efficiently move projects through the agency. First, our Traffic Department & our Developware CSR met to discuss where [...]
I think we have a pretty bright bunch of people here at CurrentMarketing. So it was amusing yesterday when I whacked myself on the side of the head saying “why didn’t we think of this sooner?” In addition to the clients who allow us to do great work, the culture here at CM is one [...]
In college, summer meant three things. Insane heat, the end of school and internships. I served as an intern at two different agencies as a student, which helped me prepare for a future career in this business. Now, I find myself on the other side of the table. As CurrentMarketing’s internship coordinator, it is my [...]
With the state of the economy and the high unemployment rate, I have heard a lot of stuff lately about how to hire and how applicants can stand out in the hiring process. I had a recent experience with hiring that has lead me to believe, firmly, that staffing agencies are the way to go. [...]
In advertising, time is money. Most departments bill clients based on the amount of time it takes to complete each project. So its easy to see why productivity and the efficient use of time is so important to us ad geeks. But as we all know, productivity has its ups and downs. From Facebook to [...]
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