Talentworks Career Guide 2008

What Does 'Networking' Really Mean?

What Does 'Networking' Really Mean?

Networking. We hear it over and over as the best way to get ahead. But what does it really mean, and how do you do it?

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Recession-Proof Your Career Now

Recession-Proof Your Career Now

Yes, unquestionably, the rules of work have changed. We're in an angst-ridden environment now. Don't let job anxiety stop you from moving forward. Learn the new rules and get on with rocking the house.

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Make Social Networks Work for You

Make Social Networks Work for You

Especially in marketing and advertising, you simply cannot afford to be left behind as more of your colleagues, audience and, yes, competitors reach out through social networks as part of their routine strategies.

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Reading, 'Riting And Reality

Talk to agency executives -- especially at top digital and interactive shops -- and they'll tell you about one of the biggest hurdles colleges and universities must overcome now: that they are woefully out of touch with advertising today, as it increasingly grows multichannel, digital and consumer-controlled.

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Ad Shops Shift Hiring Tactics

As the economy further wilts and the demand for digital experience burgeons, Madison Avenue's talent scouts are shifting gears to fulfill agency demands.

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A Place They Can Call Their Own

Professional groups of varying size, intent, cost and effectiveness have sprung up to meet CMOs' needs for professional development in a position with a notoriously short average tenure and overwhelming demands.

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Back From Private Equity

Marketing's most recent talent gold rush -- private equity -- is largely over. But the return journey looks to be neither so sudden, massive nor painful as that experienced earlier in the decade by survivors of the dot-com bust. The downfall of the "deal economy" doesn't appear to be exacting the sort of career toll that the bursting of the dot-com bubble did.

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