Career Advice
How Business Leaders Should Lead By Example on LinkedIn
If you’re a business leader, or aspire to become one, remember that your employees, partners, and prospects are all potentially watching your activity on LinkedIn. What you do here has the potential to stimulate mass engagement from your stakeholders and generate great visibility for you and your business. In this article, we will look at…
Read MoreHere’s 5 Reasons Why CMOs Fail (and Why Their Success is in Your Control)
If you’re struggling to keep a chief marketing officer on board, you’re not alone. CMO is a position with big challenges—and big turnover to match. Research firm SpencerStuart reports that in 2018, the average CMO only stayed on board for 43 months. That’s a drop in CMO tenure for a second consecutive year.…
Read MoreHow to Pick The Right Hiring Partner
It’s hard to find good help these days — unless you have good help that is helping you look. Having a truly professional recruitment process is a must if you plan on hiring employees who will make your company competitive in today’s digitally transformed, lightning fast business landscape. Let’s take a look at what you…
Read MoreHow to Land a Job in a Competitive City
Your resume is impeccable and your skills speak for themselves. So why do you still feel like just another face in the crowd? With so many talented applicants in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, it can be hard to identify what one can do as an eager job seeker to shine…
Read MoreHow to Win Over Your New Coworkers
The challenge of starting a new job isn’t just about job itself – it’s also about building office friendships from scratch. These social connections are a vital piece of starting off on the right foot. In fact, studies have shown that camaraderie is a key ingredient to happiness at work, as well as productivity. So…
Read MoreSh*t Not To Say During That Big Job Interview
The employment process is often much like dating. You spend time searching through tons of prospects in hopes of finding the right “fit.” It’s often very time consuming, nerve wracking, and it may take a few duds before you find success. The first interview with a company can remind you of a first date: you…
Read MoreTips and Tricks to a Great Video Interview
Oh, and this interview will be done by video. You have a webcam, don’t you? Does that statement bring visions of bad YouTube videos and Marco Rubio’s water glass flying in front of your eyes? The use of video interviewing is growing rapidly. It’s a convenient and cost-effective choice for organizations looking to streamline the…
Read MoreThe Art of the Resignation
The whole process of transitioning from one job to the next is a topic that is often overlooked. The digital media industry is a fast paced and ever-changing close-knit community. It’s commonplace to leave one start-up for the next (almost a bit incestuous, but in a clean way), which is why it is imperative…
Read MoreHow To Find a Job in 2013
To be utterly honest, job hunting sucks. There, the word is out. Whether employed or unemployed it is a less than joyous experience to be in the metaphoric “searching for new opportunities” boat. Most job searchers feel that they are entitled to at least getting a response to their application and in a perfect world…
Read MoreHere We Come 2013 (And a Quick Look At 2012):
Amidst our impressive 15+ years of traversing the Digital Media landscape (17 to be exact) this past year was one of our best. In every company it’s the employees that transport the business to the next level of success, and over the past year AC Lion made a concerted effort to focus on its people.…
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