so Y&R posted a listing on craigslist EOD Monday the 27.Jan.09 for an open job interview. This was posted in numerous countries all over the country. The only catch was you basically had one day to get to the interview on Wednesday.
I saw the posting at about 3AM Tuesday. Told my partner to get on a plane and be in SF on Wednesday. She ended up getting all of my emails, facebooks, myspaces, texts and whatever other electronic avenues I could find to get ahold of her at about 11AM. With in 2 hours she had found a round trip plane ticket to cross half the country in the next day. So she left her home town to drive five hours to fly out of the closest major city and meet me.
I left Wednesday morning and drove 6 hours to SF. We stayed with a friend that we graduated with who works (and obviously lives) there.
We were nervous as to how this open job interview would go and how many people could actually show up in 1.5 days. We were curious to see how many people in this economy would come in search of a junior position.
There was a short asian lady who was corralling all of the hopeful applicants and she had amazing rein of over 300 people. The first thing out of her mouth was, “if you don’t have a book, CD, or website . . . you need to leave.” Check got that . . . Secondly, “if you are here to have your book looked at and give feedback, this is not your night you need to leave.” Check, not looking for feedback, need a job. Thirdly she says, “I’ve worked in other agencies and once I got here, I knew I wouldn’t work anywhere else. This job is gritty, doesn’t pay very well, and you will work your butt off while getting pushed around and creating great work.” This is where KW and I looked at each other like ohh shit . . . there’s no turning back now.
They had 4 CDs looking at work, so there were 4 different groups with numbers. Just to give you an idea, they were lining people up in the lobby to migrate to wait in the hall to then migrate and wait on the creative side. . .. . . KW and I were in the same number group just assigned to different CDs. After waiting about an hour, our group was lining up. . .
That is all I am going to tell you about the open interview so far. They are doing second rounds and if we are called back I will finish the story . . . if not . . . there is really no use in finishing the story.
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So my team is playing in the Super Bowl in about 12 hours . . . GO CARDINALS!! I really hope they beat the Steelers. This will be a great win and some thing that the city of Phoenix has been waiting for for a long time. If we win, the Suns will be the team that needs to step it up and bring a championship to the Valley.
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