Russell Davies

regan in red star

On my recent trip to Portland I spoke with Sudeep in Byways and Regan Dekoning at Red Star. Regan was a recruitment person at Wieden + Kennedy in Portland for many years and she's recently left to start her own head-hunting business. She's placing a lot of planners at the moment and she offers some really good advice, especially for junior people, on how to do a resume, do an interview and get a job.

She's one of the smartest and nicest people you could ever hope to meet and her guidance seems really sound to me. If you're looking for recruitment help she gives her contact details at the end of the audio. It's about 11 minutes and about 11MB.

I don't seem to have a picture of Redstar so that's a picture of a red star, from National Geographic.

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sudeep in byways

Someone suggested that I should combine my two blogging lives and interview planners in cafes. So here's the first one in a series cleverly called Planners In Cafes.

I met up with Sudeep Gohil of Wieden + Kennedy at Byways in Portland. (He's Strategic Planning Director for Portland and the Global Planning Director on Nike.) He's a very nice, very smart man who's worked at interesting agencies all over the world. He talks about adschools, planning on different continents, ad-blogs and planning in a small(ish) city. Very kind of him to talk to me.

Clearly there's a tension inherent in the idea of interviewing people in cafes, ie cafes are noisy. And my mic technique isn't exactly unstoppable yet, so I apologise for the background sounds. But I think he's pretty audible. And he's worth listening to.

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