Please Feed the Animals
Please Feed the Animals is a a blog site for recently unemployed advertising professionals. It is specifically targeting people with a background in marketing, branding, advertising, art and production. The creator of the site, Erik Proulx, felt that just because of the economic downturn/recession or whatever you want to call it, shouldn’t stop advertising professionals from sharing their work.
The site started as a blog, but it can play host to an alternative place to post your resume, biography and profile to share with other professionals and potential employers. After your information has been submitted, it will be placed into one of the fifteen categories that Please Feed the Animals has for their Ad Talent section of the site. The fifteen categories are:
1)Account Service
2) Administration
3) Art Buying
4) Brand Planning/Reserach
5) Braodcast Production
6) Branded Entertainamnet
7) Creative
8) Event Management/Promotions
9) IT
10) Management
11) Media
12) Print Production
13) New Business Development/Sales
14) Traffic
15) Web Development
The author also mediates live chats with its members. The members can submit topics, Proulx chooses a topic and sets up a time where people can exchange ideas. There is also a feature that if you can’t make the live chat, they post the transcripts on the site for you to peruse at your leaser. The site holds up to a years worth of Chat Transcripts.
Another feature and reason for PFTA creation, was to “shelter” unemployed advertising professionals work. It creates one place for people to showcase all of their work and make available for other professionals and potential employers to look at.
The last major feature of the site is a “trading post” if you will. Just because your unemployed, doesn’t mean you can’t continue to expand your skills. The trading post allows these unemployed advertising professionals to exchange skills with one another, making yourself more desirable to potential employers. I guess the down side of this would be that you are increasing the competition as you yourself become more desirable.
Here is a video on the site that discusses Account Service Portfolio.
