And it's not necessarily "fun" or "exciting..."
So I've known for quite some time now that Baltimore would be one of my target cities post-grad. I lived there for two summers while I was babysitting in-house for family friends, and I loved the area and the young professional feel. What I did in the first phase of my search in Baltimore was to simply Google "Baltimore Advertising Agencies" and poke through the 20 something pages of companies that came up. I went to each website, and made a list. The list contained two headers originally: TO CALL and TO APPLY TO. I weeded out which agencies had information on how to contact them regarding employment, and the agencies that had nothing listed but a phone number as far as contact information. I've been putting off making all of those phone calls...until today.
17. The number of small agencies in Baltimore I called today. 14 of them gave me information on how / who to apply to, 1 of them was flat out not hiring because it was a one man agency, and 2 of them were incredibly rude (which I was prepared for). A lot of the people I spoke to seemed surprised that an almost grad from Michigan was calling their small agency in Baltimore, a call they probably don't get so often.
I'm not crazy I swear--my desire to work in a smaller agency stems from my internship over the summer at a full service agency run by less than 20 people: Motion Marketing and Media (tweet. tweet. @m3_group). My perspective changed because I was thrown into the industry and local projects so much so, that when I drove around I recognized the work that I had helped on. They do a lot of campaigns for various local Lansing initiatives, and have a real community impact. Lets be real and relevant to the US economy here though, if for some reason I get offered a job at a large corporate agency, I'll take it! I won't be short changing myself on this search by ONLY applying to small agencies, because it just isn't sensible.
