AGENDA for April 17th Meeting

This Friday, 10am, at the SVC, Dave Miller, from 24seven, will be joining us for a discussion on "Rebranding y0ur Resume."

At 11:30, a few of us will stay to meet with Laura, from Centerstage Theatre, for a second working session of marketing strategy development.

Social Media webinar - 4/14 @ 9am Pacific

VisualCV will host a webinar titled "Incorporating Social Media in Your Job Search."
From their website, the webinar will cover:
- Web 2.0 and the job search
- Presenting your strengths in a VisualCV
- Social media resources for the job search
- An efficient use of social media in the job search
- Social media job search success stories.

NOTES from Meeting #12 - April 10th (SVC)

* WELCOME to three new members to OCA:
- Arik Abel (former recruiter - The Creative Group, production experience)
- Marci Kearney (former Dir of Marketing - Northwest Framing, senior agency experience)
- Kim Prohaska (PR, Communications marketing experience)

* FILTER TALENT was on hand for a 1-hour plus discussion on how to best work with their staffing agency, and they provided their take on the current creative market.
- They recommend keeping in touch with their reps, especially when you have news.
- Feel free to work with multiple reps (they often work with different clients); they share information, so just be cognizant of how you're communicating with them.
- The hottest jobs they are currently staffing are hands-on, technical roles (UX, UI design).
- Best way to work with them:
o flexibility, patience, and a working partnership
o be willing to commute
o be willing to look at salary / pay rates that are lower than your ideal.
- A large portion of Filter's work is with Microsoft.
- Filter also has an in-house Studio that manages creative projects, and they have capabilities in developing icons and photo editing.
- Filter, because it's a Women Owned Business, sees and can present contract positions from MSFT before most other local staffing agencies.

Rep contact info:
Amanda Burleson - amanda@filtertalent.com
Bobby Morgan - bobby@filtertalent.com

* WUNDERMAN is hiring. New work that has been recently acquired is causing a hiring blitz.
HR Rep, Rachel Lissman, is taking resumes. rachel.lissman@wunderman.com

Seattle Job Social - next Tuesday

Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: The Parlor Billiards
Street: 700 Bellevue Way NE, Suite 300
City/Town: Bellevue, WA

www.seattlejobsocial.com to sign up.

Traditional Interactive and vice versa

For those who think your 'traditional' advertising roots could bar you from being looked at by the Interactive agencies in town... the lines between those two are continuing to blur.
An article in Monday's ADWEEK, titled RAZORFISH TRIES OUT TV, confirms that a wide variety of media experience is the best thing you can bring to the table. And for those wondering about the role of Social Media, check out the article's mention of how companies are using the social web to push product.

For more on the subject from AgencySpy, and a link to one of the 5-min 'viral' videos Razorfish produced, click here.

NEXT MEETING - Filter Talent to be on-hand

For those who weren't able to make the meeting with reps from Creative Circle (3/20), or if you did and you want a 2nd opinion...
Amanda Burleson and Bobby Morgan, from Filter, will meet with us to discuss their take on the market and how to best utilize their staffing agency. www.filtertalent.com
10am @ the SVC.

p.s. speaking of the SVC, don't forget about tonight's "how to get a job in a tough economy" session - 6:30-8pm. And Thursday's "LinkedIn" session, same time.

NOTES from Meeting #11 - April 3rd (SVC)

* We welcomed two new members into the group:
- Megan Burke (Biz Dev - Hornall Anderson, Acct Mgt - Publicis)
- Chris Lowe (Biz Dev - Hornall Anderson, professional recruiter)
* Good discussion on contracting at Microsoft and how to navigate the placement agencies (Filter, Volt, and Aquent).
* Held a 1-hour kick-off meeting with Laura and Alan from Centerstage theater. Discussed their current marketing strategies/tactics and needs going forward. Brainstormed several ideas and talked about timelines. Detailed notes to be distributed shortly.
Thanks to those from the group who met with them.

THIS WEEK:
same bat time, same bat channel. 10am @ SVC.