Of late, the biggest stories breaking in this industry feature agencies/companies committing outright deception or showing a complete lack of integrity.  From the latest flog (fake blog) incident to the Wal-Mart/Draft FCB fiasco, agencies and corporations alike find themselves under attack for questionable ethics.  Now, my Nana always said that there’s nothing new under the sun, [...]

The title is meant to be funny, but it’s no less menacing in mockery than it was when P. Diddy first unveiled it.  Seriously, what were they thinking?  No matter.  Talent Zoo’s Hiring Revolution has been nominated by Recruiting.com for the 2006 Best Blog Award.  Hooray!  We are thrilled, of course.  If you enjoy this blog and [...]

The Wal-Mart - Julie Roehm smack-down makes for juicy reading these days. There is one aspect of this story that is rather relevant to our lives.
…almost immediately following the awarding of the account to [tag]Draft FCB[/tag], the agency ran a full-page [tag]advertisement[/tag], which was placed prior to the review’s decision, in Creativity magazine touting [...]

Talk about a little time making the biggest difference. Throughout 2005 and most of the first half of 2006, Talent Zoo’s recruiting assignments coming from ad agencies were overwhelmingly Media department focused, specifically the Planning side. Since Spring, there has been a radical shortage in Account Management professionals, and now 80% of the [...]

Clients are always asking Talent Zoo what trends we have noticed. So here is my synopsis of Q4 thus far.
1) Post-Thanksgiving hiring has not lost pace with the rest of the year. At all. If you are trying to keep pace with your competitors and have put your recruiting needs on hold until January, you [...]