This Art Director Got Nowhere With His Agency Job Hunt, So He Pretended to Be a Client

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Agencies don’t return emails and phone calls from random young creatives looking for work. They do return emails and phone calls from potential clients.

August Laustsen, a young Danish art director looking for agency work in Sweden, was having no luck in his job search. He had contacted all the big agencies in Stockholm, but didn’t get a single reply.

So, he decided to fake them out a little. He pretended to be a client looking for an agency.

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