Women in Advertising

When people ask you your age, do you tell them? I’m starting a new role and I have a bit of a baby face. I hate when people at work ask me how old I am and I feel like we shouldn’t have to answer that...

How important is it to dress well for work? I’ve been to offices before where so many creatives look so effortlessly cool 🥲

If you were to leave an agency with your production skill set, what job/industry would you move to? I want to get off around 5 most days and not work during vacas. But also don’t want to work in somet...

Ladies - most of my jobs and opportunities as a freelancer or when I was full time have been given to me by other women creatives. Anyone else find it strange that every time you interview on an all m...

Anyone have any intel on the mat/parental leave policy at Edelman? Their site just says its "generous" but doesn't say what that entails, and the latest I can find on Glassdoor is from 2016.

There's awards on the shelf. For a variety of clients. About 50. Local + international. Still spoken to like a junior, paid like a low-mid, and my positive outlook is that I was allowed to give an o...

I work mainly on one account, and have since starting about a year ago. When I began, my partner and I played a major role in ideation, client presentations, etc. It was a lot of work as we only had a...

What’s the best way to improve my networking game? In 2024, I moved to a larger more advertising friendly city, where I’ve found some creative community. However I’ve only worked one company in that c...

Clients from hell have made my anxiety spike so much that sunday scaries have turned into nightly scaries. This isn’t my first rodeo with difficult clients but for some reason, these in particular hav...

Pro tip if you’re looking for referrals—get in touch BEFORE you apply through any kind of portal! I think this is now the fourth time a connection of mine has reached out only after they’ve already ap...

So my agency has frozen any raises or promotions for the foreseeable future. I’m looking to make extra income to bridge that gap and I’m looking outside of the design industry within advertising. What...

Hi! After 4.5 years of freelancing, I am more than ready to return to an office in a hybrid capacity. Any NYC agencies/in-house places that care about craft looking for a CD writer? Or CD team?

So ready to go full time again, but am not sure where to apply in nyc. Open to agencies and in-house, but want a place that cares about craft, ideas, and career growth. I am a CD and writer if that ma...

Dilemma. Should I: 1. Stay put: great agency name, big fun clients, lower pay, no promotion in sight for at least a year. 2. Jump: senior title, $40K raise, agency is okay but not top-tier, clients a...

When I was a new mom, I read a lot of advice saying you shouldn’t share you had kids in the interview process… it made you less desirable as a new hire. I’ve been in the industry for almost 20 years n...

Anyone else dealing with fellow unemployed creatives out there that are just super negative? Unemployment sucks, and I’m in the same boat but for real? One in particular, I’m feeling like whenever I s...

~6 months in at my new job as a new AD and my GAD spends more time telling me exactly what to do & how they’d do it than actually doing any part of their actual job. Everything is urgent, relayed in a...

When I started, I oversaw a couple junior creatives and set up 30-min check-ins every two weeks just to catch up. In Feb, I was moved to a different account where I don’t oversee anyone but still kept...

Has anyone else dealt with being treated like some dumb little kid by their male supervisor? He's only 5 years older than me, but feels he needs to teach me obvious basic manners that we all already k...

I was recently pulled off a team I really loved, and thought I was doing a great job on. I talked to my GCD and account team for feedback - and they all said they loved my work and working with me, bu...