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Category: Agency Life

It is a small world, after all

How it’s more like two degrees of separation at agencies

There are so many clichés in the agency world that it would be easy to fill a dictionary. Some are hard to avoid, most need to be banned. One that you won’t hear very often though is “it’s a small world” as this industry is in fact tiny.

I probably need to file this under “unconventional advice”, but for me, it doesn’t take away its importance for anyone starting out or working at an agency to know.

What even is “agency experience”?

And what we’re really asking for…

One of the most interesting things about working at an agency is the different people and how varied their backgrounds are. There seems to be hundreds of paths that have led people to agency roles, but how is that possible when most require “agency experience” as a minimum?

These are my thoughts from the last eight years about what this really means and things that I’d tell anyone to consider if they are hoping or planning to work at an agency in the future.