Live Job Interview
Role: Interviewee/live talk show guest | Thoughts on life, love, ass-kissing and getting started in the advertising biz.
MY live job interview.
“It’s like sneaking into the rhino enclosure at the zoo. It’s cramped, it’s dangerous, you can never stop running, people walk by and point at you, and the hours are ridiculous. Buy hey, if it’s what you really want to do…”
– By Jeff Hunter (On being a creative intern starting out in the ad industry.)
Watch my 2009 live Fearless Q&A interview with Alex Bogusky and Omid Farhang, the first and perhaps last live job interview ever broadcast in the history of live job interviews.
Introductions.
(01:29)
Persistence.
(00:46)
Promotions, politics & ass-kissing.
(05:45)
About me.
(01:18)
Shameless plug.
(00:21)
Mortality salience & ageism.
(01:21)
Starting over.
(02:02)
Fear.
(01:20)
Where do your ideas come from?
(01:37)
Finding Yoda.
(01:00)
The live hire.
(04:56)
So, what are the hours?
(01:45)
Now what?
(00:42)
Persistence.
(00:46)
It’s like sneaking into the rhino enclosure at the zoo. It’s cramped, it’s dangerous, you can never stop running, people walk by and point at you, and the hours are ridiculous. Buy hey, if it’s what you really want to do…
On being an intern at CP+B by Jeff Hunter
FULL INTERVIEW (57:08 min) How I got a job in advertising by Jeff Hunter