things that inspire and things that are dire: Pitch in a Lift??

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The Woodies have a blog. It’s a kind of collective. Not sure we’re about to start a revolution baby, but we might kindle a small debate or two and perhaps raise a smile. Anyway, rather than just blogging corporate Woodreed by fielding our top Woodie (as so many other companies seem to do in a thinly veiled attempt at impressing with their profundity), we wanted all our individual voices to be heard. An agency’s most valuable assets are its people after all. Everyone’s got something to say here and with us everyone’s ideas and opinions matter.

Each week someone different will be blogging. It's mostly about stuff that rocks our world as well as the flipside – the things that just don't cut it with us. We'll blog about inside and outside – inside this glorious industry where we work and outside in the real world.
It's a bit of an experiment, so go with us on this one.

Hope you enjoy.

Friday, 27 April 2012

Pitch in a Lift??

Whilst trying to fight my way through the tidal wave of year 7 to 13 school kids at my local train station this morning I thought I had picked up my free copy of 'Metro'. Unfortunately it was a discarded copy of City A.M. and I felt my heart sink.....

With the prospect of a delayed train journey I tentatively started to browse through the pages and came across the headline: How to get hired: 30 seconds in a lift with your future boss

It turns out that Saatchi & Saatchi X are holding open interviews today where they are inviting graduates to turn up to their offices with just their CV and a pitch. They will then wait for the chance to impress a group of senior executives in 30 seconds whilst travelling in a lift. If they're sucessful it could then lead to a bootcamp, a short summer placement and then a job for at least a year.....

Now that gives a new approach to first impressions count......hope no one suffers from claustrophobia