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An agency-day without overtime is like a holiday without travel-time – you might want to avoid it, but the two are rarely separable. And while we’re on the subject: how necessary is that time which we sacrifice from our much prized free-time?
Let’s look at it this way: how are you going to avoid it? Anyone who has chosen the agency life usually knows what they’ve gotten themselves into. There are the horror stories about choleric bosses and “exploitation-agencies”, and it’s no secret that you probably aren’t going to get out of the office at 5pm any day of the week. But perhaps the overtime is a good investment. A bit like a life insurance policy: you pay in to it a bit at a time and after a certain period it usually was worth it. And then you get the nice life you have earned: success in the workplace, recognition from your peers etc. etc.
What combines demography with design? Why does design contribute to solve climate change? Moreover, what does food design actually mean? The Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) replies to these questions with creative spots, conferences, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and guided tours from 7th until 12th of February. The program are now fixed (
On February 11th, 2012 
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The relatively high job fluctuation is a well known idiosyncrasy of the creative industries, and we of course experience that first hand almost ever day in our recruitment work. While most people in other industries change jobs every 4-6 years, the average in the communication Industry is more like 2-3 years. The reasons for this are certainly various – a low tolerance amongst creative people for repetition and routine; the stress of the industry taking its toll; people just looking for a new challenge… I would take the last point even further: it’s not just a new challenge that we need regularly, but also our curiosity needs food to feed off and our desire to learn is almost unquenchable. In interviews and in selecting candidates for jobs, we at Designerdock don’t just try to find people who have the right experience for a certain position. We also consider whether the position will help our candidates develop their skill set and further their careers. In essence that means that there should be something to learn in the new job. It might be soft skills, software skills, new responsibilities, new media… Often, when faced with the choice of a new job with more money (but the same old routine) or a new job in new territory, many candidates choose the later, which we support whole-heartedly. 
