High point

So...high point of today is the potato story running in the southern edition of the Mail. Check it out when it arrives in your mailbox, Christchurch!!!

Dramas with one of my "more difficult" clients today. I love working with travel advertisers!!!

Thrilled

Future hubby has not one but two big bad job offers. And another two interviews this week. You have no idea what a load this is off my mind!

Well paying professional jobs even.

After close to two years of me being the only one on a steady income and fighting about the reasons why his boss should pay him on time and oh my goodness how will we pay for a whole wedding??! this is very welcome relief!

Higher pay bracket than me - but that's really to be expected I guess, given the size of his student loan!

And they'll even let him start later this year! Which is very good because it means that things won't be quite so tight in terms of the wedding and bond money and rent in advance and all those horrible nasty things being a grown up costs you.

Thank God :)

Hrm...

So, interview seemed to go ok. Excepting for the fact that he asked me if I was creative and interested in creative things and I said "yes" (because I am) and then he talked about how that was a concern because they needed someone who could do things in an orderly fashion and be organized.

But he was friendly and so was the receptionist and the place seemed nice. So yeah. Who knows, we had a nice wee chat and he said they'd be in touch.

I know I could so easily do it, but do I want it????

Job hunt?

I have a job interview tomorrow for a Media Planning job!!!

Wikipedia says:

"Media Planner is a job title in an advertising agency responsible for selecting media for advertisement placement on behalf of their clients. The main aim of a Media Planner is to assist their client in achieving business objectives through their advertising budgets by recommending the best possible use of various media platforms available to advertisers. Their roles may include analysing target audiences, keeping abreast of media developments, reading market trends and understanding motivations of consumers (often including psychology and neuroscience).

Traditionally, the role of the media planner was quite close to that of the Media Buyer, the obvious distinction being that the planner would devise a plan for advertising and the buyer would negotiate with the Media Owner on things such as rates, copy deadlines, placement etc. The role of the modern media planner is more wide reaching however. Today many agencies are actually eschewing the job title of 'media planner' in favour of titles such as communications planner, brand planner or strategist. This reflects the shift away from 'traditional' media planning to a more holistic approach, with the planner now having to consider (as well as standard above-the-line channels such as TV, print, radio and outdoor) PR, below-the-line channels, in-store, digital media, product placement and other emerging communications channels all for the purpose of ensuring the client's advertising budget is well spent as well as adhering to the overall marketing strategy devised by marketing consultants or the client themselves. Their expanded job scope has thus made more demands of their time, placing them in immensely pressured situations matched by the states faced by their creative (copywriters and art directors) counterparts. Media planners have otherwise thought to have been in a far more relaxed working environment.

Media Planners tend to work very closely with client marketing departments, and the creative advertising agency to develop their recommendations."

It's over in Ferrymead and it requires me to dress neatly. Me, who goes to work in jeans on a daily basis...

I don't know if I'm qualified for a job like this - but they must have liked my CV.

I'm a little scared...