How to Prevent HR 'Red Flags' from Derailing Your Job Search

Category: Career Oxygen
Summary: My advice is that you will have a substantially higher likelihood of getting an interview if you make your first contact by sending a marketing letter directly to the hiring authority. Essentially, the idea is to make an offer to be of service to her or him by telling them that you can help them reach their business financial goals faster with the capabilities you can bring to the table as the result of your education and experience, and that you would be glad to come by one day soon for a brief visit to tell them more about your qualifications.

Brodinski – Can’t Help Myself

Iconoclast et les Megaforce ont respectivement produit et réalisé le nouveau clip de Brodinski pour son titre « Can’t Help Myself ». Avec une atmosphère tendue et angoissante, la vidéo retrace le rajeunissement d’un vieil homme qui implose dans une boule noire et liquide. La boucle se ferme dans des courses frénétiques et des retours perpétuels dans un tunnel.

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Where Are the Men in the Women's Leadership Gap Discussion?


I recently returned from the 3% Conference in San Francisco, a gathering dedicated to advocating for women in creative leadership positions. I was one of only two dozen or so men in attendance, and I couldn’t help wondering why the lack of women leaders is still seen as a women’s problem — not a business challenge — when the benefits of women’s leadership are so obvious and so uncontestable.

Women control roughly 85% of consumer purchases, yet 91% of women say advertisers don’t understand them. As advertisers, we attend many meetings where the clients are women, but we often scramble to put together a gender-balanced team ourselves.

Where women aren’t in charge yet, men in leadership positions should take responsibility and lead the way.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

India Played a Massive Role in Publicis' Deal to Buy Sapient


When Publicis Groupe agreed to buy Sapient Corp. for $3.7 billion, a hefty 40% premium over its recent trading price, the French holding company provoked head-scratching throughout the industry. But Publicis isn’t just acquiring an agency to bulk up in familiar services or add obvious short-term financial gains. It was placing a bet on the engine that Sapient has built in India to power a future of marketing that looks more like consulting — and a future of consulting that looks more like marketing.

More than 65% of Sapient’s employees — about 8,500 out of almost 13,000 — work in India, where labor is cheap but there’s a wealth of technology talent.

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Sky Broadband ad banned after BT complaint

BSkyB has had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for a misleading “best ever” claim, after a complaint from its rival BT.

Mac Premo reflete sobre a vida, arte e as exigências do mundo real

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Bas Berhout é um videomaker holandês baseado no Brooklyn, Nova York, que se dedica a contar boas histórias usando não só uma narrativa envolvente, mas também belas imagens e uma edição muito bem pensada e executada. Com certa constância, a temática do dia a dia de criativos aparece em sua obra, como é o caso recente do webdocumentário dedicado ao “fazedor de coisas” (stuffmaker) Mac Premo.

Aqui, o artista reflete sobre a vida, a arte e as exigências do mundo real – aquela boa e velha discussão sobre a necessidade de se ganhar dinheiro para poder sustentar sua família, o que acaba deixando a veia criativa em segundo plano, ou vice-versa. Basicamente, o mesmo problema que muitos de nós enfrentam no dia a dia e que nos deixam com aquela sensação de que tem um pedaço faltando em nossas vidas.

O Adweek questiona a linha fina entre conteúdo e marketing existente neste filme, que também poderia ser um comercial divulgando o artista. Ao meu ver, independentemente do que seja, acaba valendo mais pela reflexão, especialmente para quem vive tentando equilibrar as obrigações do dia a dia – “trabalhando para outras pessoas fazendo arte”, como bem definiu Jason Freeny aqui – e a criação em si, quando temos a oportunidade de seguir a inspiração para onde ela nos levar.

O filme é em inglês, sem legendas.

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El Ojo de Iberoamérica, o “Cannes” iberoamericano, começa hoje em Buenos Aires

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Tem início hoje, em Buenos Aires, na Argentina, a 17ª edição do El Ojo de Iberoamérica, premiação focada no países que falam espanhol e português.

Líder na região iberomericana, o El Ojo é uma espécie de “Cannes” latino, que promove capacitação através de workshops, inspira, reúne e premia os melhores trabalhos e profissionais latinos, segundo um júri composto por pares também latinos.

Além de destacar peças que tenham se mostrado inovadoras e eficientes, o El Ojo se preocupa em mostrar a trajetória e como se desenvolveram alguns dos principais profissionais e empresas locais, com o objetivo de colocar a Iberoamérica entre as principais potências publicitárias mundiais.

O B9 acompanha o festival diretamente de Buenos Aires, destacando os finalistas e os vencedores de cada categoria, que incluem Cinema e TV, Gráfica, Rádio, Via Pública, Interativo, Mobile, Media, Direto, Promo, PR, Design, Postais, Sustentável, Esportes, Conteúdo, Campanhas Integradas, O Terceiro Olho, Inovação, Eficácia, Ideia Latina, Produção Audiovisual e Produção Gráfica.

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U.K. Survey: Marketers Say They Aren't Happy With Global Agency Alignments


By almost every measure, marketers who work with ad agencies as part of an international alignment are less satisfied than their colleagues who work with locally-chosen shops.

Results, creativity, value for money and service all scored lower for international alignments, with only digital coming out on top, according to a survey by the U.K.’s Incorporated Society of British Advertisers.

Only 93 U.K. marketers responded to the survey half of whom have local agreements and half with international agreements — but the overall attitude to agencies was clear.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Honey Packaging Design

Pour la marque arménienne Bzzz, les créatifs de chez Backbone Branding ont conçu le packaging « Bzzz premium » : un contenant fait en bois pour ranger un pot de miel. Inspiré par la vraie forme d’une ruche, ce packaging a été réalisé en édition limitée. A découvrir en images dans la galerie, accompagné de croquis.

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Why Pepsi's NFL Strategy Skewed Digital This Fall


Even though Pepsi is the official soft drink of the National Football League, the brand has been noticeably absent during the games’ TV commercial breaks this year.

But it’s not because PepsiCo has turned its back on the league. Rather, Pepsi has chosen to embark on a digital-centric strategy this fall, spending almost all of its football marketing dollars on online videos starring NFL players. That will change soon, as Pepsi begins airing TV ads leading up to its heavily promoted sponsorship of the Super Bowl halftime show.

But for the the first half of the season, brand leaders decided digital was more efficient and effective. “As we’ve studied consumers media consumption behaviors around the NFL, we’ve seen a lot more engagement online as [fans] research players or teams for updates through the first part of the season,” said Amy Spiridakis, Pepsi’s brand marketing director. “As the season is now winding down, gearing up towards the playoffs, you’ll see in the next couple weeks [that] we [will] shift directions a little bit.”

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Carhartt – Rain Defender – (2014) :60 (USA)

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This ad shows hard working people – well hard working men, really, though there’s a woman spotted once in this ad – who trust their own gear and gear up to be able to get on with it, no matter the weather.

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Viber launches Public Chats in major global marketing push

Viber, the mobile messaging app, has introduced a feature called Public Chats, which enables users to listen in on instant messages broadcast by brands or celebrities including Perez Hilton and Pixie Lott.

Supermarkets must embrace the 'connected shopper' to win sales

Retailers must embrace the connected shopper to drive growth into the future, or risk being trapped in a cycle of harmful and aggressive discounting, according to Jonathan Agnes, the chief executive officer of Constant Commerce.

Uber: we don't spy on passengers

Uber, the Taxi app, has insisted it does not monitor passengers, after senior vice president Emil Michael suggested the company might hire “researchers” to smear journalists.

Creston agencies become Unlimited in rebrand

Creston, the marketing communications group that owns TMW, is rebranding to Creston Unlimited to reflect its joined-up offering.

Bob Marley fronts 'Marley Natural' global cannabis brand

Bob Marley will front the world’s first global cannabis brand, after the family of the late reggae singer agreed to a tie-up with private equity firm Privateer Holdings.

ASA bans 'strongly sexual' Giffgaff ad

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned a “strongly sexual” ad by Giffgaff, the mobile telephone network, after one complaint.

Não Obstante #5 – Filosofia do Design – uma aposta pós-prometeica?

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Olá designófilos!

Finalmente chegamos ao quinto episódio do Não Obstante, contando novamente com a apurada edição de Felipe Ayres e com uma aquarela de Marcos Beccari na vitrine.

Neste programa, Marcos Beccari conversa com Daniel B. Portugal sobre o artigo de Bruno Latour (2008) intitulado Um Prometeu cauteloso? Alguns passos rumo a uma filosofia do design (com especial atenção a Peter Slotedijk), recentemente traduzido pelo próprio Daniel B. Portugal, junto a Isabela Fraga (links abaixo). Resultante de uma palestra que o filósofo francês proferiu em um congresso de História do Design, este artigo traz a metáfora de um “prometeu cauteloso” como proposta para uma filosofia do design que, para o autor, teria o filósofo alemão Peter Sloterdijk como principal pensador. Seguindo tal proposta, Beccari e Daniel delineiam um modo de pensar o design que não se submete àquilo que tradicionalmente é considerado como útil, sério, profundo e necessário. Mais do que isso, discutem como o design pode estar associado à compreensão de que nossa existência é um artifício, que não existe uma natureza em oposição ao artificial, e que todas as questões ontológicas são na verdade hermenêuticas, ou seja, embalagens dentro de embalagens.

Faça download do episódio aqui
>> 0h17min11seg Pauta Principal
>> 1h30min58seg Música de encerramento: “LUX”, da banda Ez3kiel.

Links
Site Filosofia do Design
PDF do artigo “Um Prometeu cauteloso? Alguns passos rumo a uma filosofia do design (com especial atenção a Peter Slotedijk)”
“O Prometeu cauteloso de Bruno Latour”, post do Daniel B. Portugal
“Existe filosofia do design? Um debate em aberto”
“O guarda-chuva invisível de Duchamp”, post de Marcos Beccari

iTunes
Ouça o Não Obstante através do feed do AntiCast no iTunes.
Assine no seu iTunes da seguinte forma: Vá no Itunes, na guia Avançado > Assinar Podcast e insira o nosso feed feed.anticast.com.br

Redes Sociais
Twitter: @anticastdesign e @filosofiadesign
Fanpage no Facebook: AntiCast e Filosofia do Design
E-mail: contato@anticast.com.br e contato@filosofiadodesign.com

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White Parisian Concept Store

Imaginé par Violaine Carrère, Le White est une galerie qui n’expose que des oeuvres en blanc. Outre ce superbe concept de lieu monochrome, le concept-store expose et met en vente des pièces en édition limitée créées par de jeunes artistes, photographes et designers. À découvrir en images.

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Animated Icons For What’s Next Conference

Voici une série d’icônes animées créées pour What’s Next? Conference of Creative Industries 2014 qui a eu lieu en Lituanie. Réalisé par Mindaugas Dud?nas, Jone Miskinyte et Domas Miksys, chaque icône est dédiée à une discipline différente : Design, Fashion, Photographie, Architecture, Illustrations, Motions Graphics, Advertising, Education, Business etTechnologies.

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