Here’s the key dates for all you wannabe hotdeskers. We’ll close entries for the summer intake on Friday 11th May. Not Saturday morning. Not Sunday afternoon after the football’s finished. Friday. So get your shit together and get it in.
We’ll then contact a shortlist of 20 candidates. 12 Account Managers/Planners and 8 Creatives. If you’re on the shortlist, you’ll be invited to an interview day on Thursday 24th May. This will be a pretty intense day, designed to put you through your paces. It’ll be like ‘The Apprentice’, only with less wanks. So make sure you’re free on the 24th, or you won’t be considered.
We’ll contact the winners on the 28th of May and they’ll start on the 4th of June. Boof!
Of course, as your old mum used to say, not everyone can be a winner. If you don’t make the cut this time, don’t get the violins out just yet. You’ll still be considered for other intakes later in the year.
Closing Date For Entries
- Friday 11th May
Shortlist of 20 Applicants Contacted
- Monday 14th May
Interview Day (You must be able to attend this day in Edinburgh)
- Thursday 24th May
Contact Winning Grads
- Monday 28th May
Start Date of Placement
- Monday 4th June
Working in account management means no two days are the same. Account Managers are the client’s main contact, they work with the agency to turn a client brief into inspiring work that answers the business problem. It is important that we understand the clients’ business and work to solve that problem on time and within budget. I think the most important part of the job is to have the ability to keep lots of plates spinning at the same time, but genuinely enjoy the mayhem of it. The best thing about the day? Spending most of it talking to creative, inspiring and interesting people. 
A creative’s job is to come up with the ideas, from tiny press ads to big TV campaigns. We’ll often be found staring into space or doodling with our marker pens. This may look like we’re permanently day dreaming, but we’re secretly thinking up grand ideas. Giving a voice to a brand or product can be trickier than it looks. Eventually, if our doodles are any good they’ll get made into real ads. And we’ll get to work with illustrators, directors, actors and photographers to bring our ideas to life and then stick them up on telly, huge billboards, bus stops, magazines, newspapers, websites, radios and everywhere else you can think of.
In a nutshell, planning = being the voice of the consumer. It is the perfect role for someone who wants to work in a creative agency, but prefers thinking about the overarching strategy of the campaign instead of the actual creative output alone. It’s a great role for someone with an analytical mind (but who is hopeless at drawing) and who doesn’t necessarily want to be the lead client contact for a certain campaign – that’s the role of Account Management.
Studio traffic never stops. Every day I have to manage the flow of work coming from account management in to studio. We have a team of talented art workers ready to make any creative concept a reality. It is my job to make sure all studio work is processed and delivered on time. Studio Traffic means I get to see all work that goes through the agency, it is very satisfying to see a creative idea turn into a remarkable ad. 
