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Advice On: Getting Hired As A Team
I've been unemployed for six months and have been doing nothing but nonstop interviewing without any luck. I know a copywriter who is in the same situation I'm in and we've decided to try to get hired as a team. How do you think the best way to do this is?
Thanks for taking a break from your intense interview schedule to write. First, I have a question for you: Your note implies that you have previously convinced someone to hire you. Did you make that part up?
You've been struggling to regain employment for six months. Naturally you've concluded that the appropriate next step will be to compound the complexity and expense necessary to hire you.
Great idea.
The real strength of your plan is that the work you'll be presenting to get these two jobs will be the same exceptional work that has served each of you so well in your individual job searches. You won't even need to redo your books, you can just show up in tandem and run through the formality of showing your well-worn work before getting those inevitable job offers!
While your plan is nearly flawless, I propose that you not limit yourselves to a simple menage a deux of design and copy. Consider the benefits of applying alongside an Account Manager, Traffic Coordinator, Web Programmer, Strategist, Production Designer, Media Buyer, and maybe a Twitter expert or two. By doing so, your future employer won't be burdened by the prohibitively complicated process of hiring a few creatives and can instead step easily into a simple merger with you and the A-Team.
There's no question in my mind that this is a compelling plan conceived by two great thinkers. Good luck to you and your new partner, please keep me apprised as your inevitable rise to stardom progresses.
Happy to help,
Speedball
Need advice? You can contact Speedball at speedball@theegotist.com, drop him a question in the Forum or follow him on Twitter: @spdbll.
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Wow, thanks for wasting our time with a shamelessly sarcastic response to a question you obviously felt wasn't even worth answering. What a totally pointless exercise in stroking your own ego for the benefit of making yourself sound smart at someone's expense. It's especially despicable when that someone is in need in a tough economical client. Kudos on this one. It was unabashedly pathetic. It's a true testament to 'helping Denver suck less'.
Next time you want to fill the Q&A space, try doing it with something that might actually be useful.
I agree completely. Sarcasm of this level only makes you look bitter, small-minded and weak. This kind of writing is the opposite of talent.
Totally lame dude.
Sorry, by 'client' I meant 'climate'.
Though you cannot see it, speedball is the most wisdomonious man on the internet.
I think it was great.
Magnifico.
welcome back speedball. it has been too long.
all the neg posters can go eat a big bowl of what i told aimee mann to eat after dissin my acting career
the speedball rolls on
Eh. This schtick is already done, and better, by Maddox (thebestpageinthenuiverse). Not impressive.
"Ding, ding - here comes the shitmobile." That one always cracked me up. By the way, congrats Speedball. I have been demoted, you now seem to be the most despised Egotist contributor and on your first day back into the fray. Nice work. You make me seem...well...nice.
I got took. Dang.
It can be a little tough to see through the shit-fog sometimes. Especially on this site.
You feel that Randy?
What, Mr.Lahey?
The way the shit clings to the air?
What Mr.Lahey!?
Randy m'boy, it's already started.
What's started, Mr.Lahey?
The Shit Blizzard.
You know, people are getting laid off and having a hard time getting hired and you take it upon yourself to knock them down even further? Wow, your like the fat kid on the playground who picks on the smaller kids because of your own insecurities! Even though the ad world is fun, sarcastic, cooky, light, with some brilliant minds, this is just mean. Good luck in your job search!
This is why I like the Egotist. They got a little too "puppy dogs and rainbows" for a while there, but this is good stuff. Anyone who thinks they can get hired as a team deserves a response like this. Speedball pretty much hit the copywriter on the head.
speedball-
you need to be punched in the tit.
Sorry it took me so long to respond, I've been really busy interviewing candidates for all the design and copy team positions I'm trying to fill. I'm sure you can relate.
I'm the first to admit when I'm wrong. Maybe this is one of those times. Let me walk through my thinking and you can check my logic. Here are the facts I considered before deeming this idea to be less-than-awesome:
1. These guys aren't a team, they're two strangers who haven't been able to get a job on their own despite apparently having many opportunities to convince someone to employ them.
Acutally, I guess that was the only fact I felt I needed to consider.
Thanks for the feedback, stay tuned next week when I review the decision to fill the Hindenburg with hydrogen (hint: I feel it was a poor choice).
sounds like speedball brought a gun to a snowball fight, gotta love that kid.
FYI- people DO get hired as a team, just not really around here (small shops), and typically they've worked together at their last/past job and created some good work together and have a good rapport. So, to say that getting hired as a team is not reality is incorrect. I saw a Venebles team 'wanted' very recently. So there.
Ps- yes your negativity is funny, but sparingly. A line or two, or maybe a paragraph, about it would be well-timed, but however many paragraphs you spewed just proves all you want to do is hear your own hot, garlic-laden breath.
speedball's particular brand of negativity sounds eerily familiar...
Seems like pretty sound advice to me. Being a semi-recent graduate I’ve been trying to gain employment in the ad game out here with what can only be described as sad-bastard results. Couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be part of a team on this quest.
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