You want to be smart? Surround yourself with smart people. Not only smart but yes but, with opinionated talkative people. Well rounded personality is a must in the advertising company. The artist for advertising company doesn't need to be talkative but it is necessarily for that person to be able to reason out what his (or her) idea so that he can defend whatever project he wants to be fulfilled. Although there are managers who can able to grasp the idea from a non-talker artist by looking at the plan, the project or from the draft made by the artist. However how many managers are capable of thinking the same way what the artist are projecting? So it's really a matter of surrounding the company with all the SMART people who can be relied on many aspects of the project.
Well for the most part big companies don't hire anybody out of the blue. They will hire from many applicants who sent their comprehensive resume and from those biodata the human resource manager can able to do the over all testing of those applicants. Test such as IQ test, Abstract, Comprehension in English, Mathematical skills plus the interview panel interview or just a face to face interview by the manager vs. applicant. The other plus to be reconsidered? Recommendations from people whom that person has worked with in the past in the form of "references." Small company don't need to do such standard testing. In the Philippines the above testing is more common than usual because of severe extreme competition. Just one vacancy from a prestigious company there are about hundred thousand to million applicants. What if the priority is you have to be a graduate of a prestigious university? So that limit the applicants from hundred thousand to at least 75 thousands? Then what if "whom you know, not what you know system took place?" There > that's the huge problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Surround yourself with smart people who can solve problems and provide better solutions to the burgeoning hazards and buzzards of that filthy corrupt system.
