The annual compensation of Omnicom CEO John Wren should be printed in the dictionary as THE definition of the word “obscene”. Especially in a year where tens of thousands of Omnicom employees have been axed, with a large % of them still out of work.

Dilemma. Should I: 1. Stay put: great agency name, big fun clients, lower pay, no promotion in sight for at least a year. 2. Jump: senior title, $40K raise, agency is okay but not top-tier, clients are meh for now but could rotate onto better ones after a few months.

These are the indie (US) agencies I love their work the most and want to work at. Am I foolishly missing any other shops? Mischief High Dive Rethink Mirimar Orchard Alto Special U.S. WK Erich and Kallman Quality Meats Joan

BBDO NY: Let’s do big things Also BBDO NY: Let’s copy what Taco Bell did when they used real people named Ronald McDonald to promote their breakfast and get real people named Reece to promote our snickers chocolate peanut butter 🙄🙄🙄

For those of you who jumped and went brand side, did you pay to have your resume ATS optimized? If so, what did you pay? I'm being courted by a major brand, but being told that my ad agency resume needs to be ATS optimized to move forward.