Carolina Cruz-Letelier, Director for Client Services and Partner at MUH-TAY-ZIK / HOF-FER, champions small agency life, leading with kindness, and listening to what your coworkers need in 2020. Hear about being the youngest female Partner and what led to her rise, building a strong relationship with your manager, how agencies should be taking care of its people in 2020, and going back to fundamentals to prove your value while working from home.

Jesse Meza, Digital Media Supervisor, encourages you to be true to yourself—in your interviews, when dealing with other people’s biases, and as you move through your career. Hear about why it was still difficult to land his first job despite all his credentials, how to keep your media skills sharp, how to set yourself up for a promotion, and choosing when to act vs. when to preserve your own energy.

Saneel Radia, Global Chief Innovation Officer at R/GA, gives you a blueprint for starting your career and a look at what it means to work in innovation in the industry. Hear about his many roles and how each was additive to his career, why business needs both those who are and who aren’t entrepreneurial, the steps to getting started in innovation, and the variables that will define your career early on.

Christena Pyle, Executive Director of Advertising at TIME'S UP, shows us the power of changing your definition of success in your career. Hear about her journey working in account management and production agency-side, to ADCOLOR, to TIME’S UP, the value of trying on different roles, and how young talent can be an allies and create inclusive spaces. While recorded at the end of 2019, her advice is even more important and critical today.

Bea Iturregui, VP of Brand Partnerships at Cycle, guides us into the ever-evolving world of influencer marketing. Hear about tools she uses to keep up with what’s changing across the space, lessons she’s learned on relationship building (and why you don’t need to be an extrovert to do so), why brands are turning to influencers now more than ever, and how to prove you have what it takes without that internship you thought you’d have.

Matt Dunn, Art Director at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, joins us to inspire your next creative side hustle. Hear about how stealing a brief from the printer at his internship led to winning a Coca-Cola pitch, his first creative side hustle and how it’s shaped his career, the ingredients of a good creative side project, and why it’s even more important to stay connected with past colleagues during this time.

Angela Brown, Senior Social Strategist at GSD&M, helps us understand Covid-19’s effect on social media, brands, and our individual paths. Hear about how Covid-19 has changed her role, examples of brands that responded well (and others that didn’t) and the lasting effect of Covid-19 will have on brands, behind-the-scenes of the infamous tweet that started the Popeye’s/Chik-Fil-A Chicken Sandwich War, and dealing with the reality of a pivot from a practical and emotional perspective.

Natalie sits down to give her advice on starting your career amidst Covid-19, and answers some unanswered questions from the Q&A portion of the Virtual Recruiter Roundtables.

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Gina Asaro-Collura, SVP/Creative Director at FCB Health & Adjunct Professor at FIT, shares her best tips for freelancing, virtual networking and interviews, and working your connections. Hear about getting fired and entering the world of freelance, the benefits of working freelance for six and a half years, advice on virtual networking and pointers for phone or virtual interviews, and pitching her full-time role at FCB Health after freelancing there.

Aaron Wiggan, Director of Brand Strategy at REI, shares lessons on mentorship and leadership from his career on both the agency and brand side. Hear about how his undergraduate studies in post-colonial theory, English, and forestry played a role in shaping him as a strategist, the similarities and differences of the markets he’s worked in, learning to let go of the work as a senior leader, and understanding the challenges of being a client after moving to the brand side.