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Inside Job Agency Career Coach for all Ad and Marketing Folks🕵🏻‍♀️ 25+ Years of Experience 🕵🏻‍♀️ Joyfully Sarcastic I'll give you the tools to find your job home.

Big picture expertise, and detailed insight are just some of the services I've provided having been fortunate enough to partner on successful recruiting missions within creative, marketing and product technology for over 18 years. I specialize in the advertising, brand, technology/consumer digital and marketing space for the US market. I have spent 20 years taking the mystery out of job searching

and helping people find a career path that fits. Please reach out if you are looking to make a great career move, find amazing talent to tackle your companies’ objectives, or if you just want to network with someone who has a great overview of the job market! Areas of Expertise: art direction, creative direction, design, copy, marketing, IA, UX, UI, product development and management, mobile design and development, application and web development, Media Planning and Buying, Paid Social and Search Strategists, UI and front end developers, software engineers, QA, business analysts, content strategists, account and brande planners, branding, account manager, motion graphics and other fine areas of the trade.

I keep hearing people say there are no jobs.That's not really what I'm seeing.What I'm seeing is a market that requires ...
06/23/2026

I keep hearing people say there are no jobs.
That's not really what I'm seeing.

What I'm seeing is a market that requires a lot more strategy than it did a few years ago.

There are jobs. Good jobs. The difference is that companies have more applicants, candidates have more tools, and everyone has more information. Hiring managers are researching candidates. Candidates can research companies.

The people getting traction aren't necessarily applying to more jobs. They're doing a better job searching for them.

They're researching. Positioning themselves intentionally. Tailoring their story. Understanding what the company actually needs before they hit apply.

You can't really half-do a job search anymore and expect great results.

The market got smarter.

Candidates need to get smarter too. If you are feeling like you've lost your way in this job search, I'm a seasoned career coach and recruiter and I'd love to chat. You can book an hour with me here: https://www.insidejobagency.com/contact

06/19/2026

UX designers are amazing at improving user experiences...and somehow terrible at applying the same thinking to their own LinkedIn profiles.

You can spend months optimizing an onboarding flow, reducing drop-off, improving conversion, and making complex experiences feel effortless... then write an About section that starts with "I'm passionate about creating intuitive user experiences."

Your About section is a user experience. The user is a hiring manager with limited time and a lot of options. What do they need to know in the first few seconds?

Lead with the problem you solve. The outcomes you create. The evidence that proves it.

Good UX removes friction.

Your profile should do the same.

Book an hour with me if you need help figuring out what to say.

06/18/2026

One of the biggest shifts people can make in their job search is moving from buzzwords to proof.

"Strategic."
"Results-driven."
"Storyteller."

Maybe all of those things are true.

But what hiring managers really want to know is: what did you actually do?

The launch you led.
The process you fixed.
The revenue you influenced.
The team you built.

The strongest personal brands aren't built on claims.

They're built on evidence.

Lead with the receipts. Let other people decide what to call you.

Book an hour with me if you need help.

06/17/2026

One of the hardest things for talented people to hear is that having more skills isn't always the advantage they think it is.

When you've spent years wearing multiple hats, it's natural to want to show everything you can do. But hiring managers aren't looking for your entire toolbox first. They're looking for the tool that solves their immediate problem.

Lead with the thing that's most relevant.

Let the rest become a pleasant surprise.

Your range is valuable. Your clarity is what gets you hired.

If your confidence feels lower than it did a few months ago, you're not imagining it.A long job search has a way of maki...
06/16/2026

If your confidence feels lower than it did a few months ago, you're not imagining it.

A long job search has a way of making even the most accomplished people question themselves.

One of the hardest parts about a layoff isn't the first few weeks. It's what happens a few months later.

When the confidence starts slipping. When every job starts looking good enough. When you're no longer making decisions based on what you want... you're making them based on how badly you want the uncertainty to end.

That's why strategy matters early.

Not because it gets rid of the stress.

Because it helps make sure fear doesn't end up driving the car.

Book an hour with me if you want to get your strategy in place now -- whether you still have a job, were recently laid off, or got laid off several months ago.

Thank you for the kind words.This is exactly the work I love doing.Most people come to me thinking they need a better re...
06/12/2026

Thank you for the kind words.

This is exactly the work I love doing.

Most people come to me thinking they need a better resume, a stronger LinkedIn profile, or more applications out in the world. Sometimes they do. But more often, they need clarity.

Clarity on what they actually want. Clarity on where they fit. Clarity on how to position years of experience in a way that makes sense to today's market.

My goal is never to help someone become a better job seeker.

It's to help them become easier to understand, easier to remember, and easier to hire.

When that happens, everything else gets a lot simpler.

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"Mindy is an outstanding coach and resource for anyone navigating the fast-changing marketing, media, and creative world. She was instrumental in helping me launch my consulting practice, from sharpening my narrative and LinkedIn presence to clarifying my niche in the industry.

Her structured yet highly personalized process helped me identify where I fit in the broader ecosystem, target the right companies, and approach the hiring and interview process with confidence, while also making sense of AI’s impact and all the noise in the market. I highly recommend Mindy to anyone looking for strategic, practical career coaching."

06/11/2026

"Storyteller" has become the default answer on LinkedIn.

And while it's often true... it's usually not the most useful thing to lead with. Because storytelling is the skill. It's not the specialty.

The question hiring managers are really trying to answer is: What kind of storyteller are you? Do you build brands? Shape creative? Find consumer insights? Create content systems? Drive demand?

The more clearly people understand where you fit, the easier it is for them to see your value.

Specificity doesn't limit opportunities. It helps the right ones find you.

Need help? Let's chat. Send me a DM.

06/10/2026

Most people come into a job search thinking they need a better resume, more applications, or a bigger network.

Sometimes that's true. But a lot of the time, the real issue is that they're incredibly qualified and no one can tell.

They're leading with the wrong thing. Targeting the wrong companies. Trying to be too many things at once.

The hardest part about positioning yourself is that you're too close to it. You know every project, every skill, every chapter of your career. The challenge is figuring out which parts actually matter to the person making the hiring decision.

Sometimes the breakthrough isn't working harder. It's finally seeing the problem clearly.

If your search feels stuck and you can't figure out why, DM me "strategy" and let's find the bottleneck together.

06/09/2026

One of the biggest mistakes I see in job searches is trying to keep every door open.

It feels safer. Especially when the market is tough.

But when your positioning is too broad, people struggle to understand where you fit and what they should bring you in for.

Think about how you would approach a brand launch. You'd define the audience, clarify the value proposition, and make sure the message was unmistakable.

Your job search deserves the same level of strategy.

The goal isn't to appeal to everyone. It's to make the right people immediately think, "This is exactly who we need."

That's when opportunities start finding their way back to you.

DM me to book an hour. We'll discuss how to speak to your unique skills.

You are not stupid because branding yourself feels hard.Most of you built your careers making other people look clear, c...
06/05/2026

You are not stupid because branding yourself feels hard.

Most of you built your careers making other people look clear, compelling, strategic, and valuable.

You’ve been inside the work. Inside the team. Inside the machine.

Now suddenly you’re supposed to step outside yourself, become objective, identify your value, position your experience, write about yourself confidently, and somehow do it while stressed and unemployed?

Of course that feels difficult.

Introspection is hard.
Objectivity is hard.
Especially when you’ve spent years being collaborative instead of self-focused.

A lot of smart people spiral in the job search because they think “if I was really good, this would come naturally.”

No.

This is a completely different skill set.

And it’s one you can learn. Book an hour with me if you need some help.

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