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The Tipping Point:
Careers in Marketing Communication

Featuring

Jerry Levin
Former CEO, Time Warner
Presiding Director, Moonview

Debbie Cantu
Vice President, Brand Marketing & Advertising
Kaiser Permanente

Gena Y. Davis (Annenberg Alumni)
Founder, Principal & Marketing Consultant
The Gena Davis Agency

Moderated by Andrea Hollingshead
Associate Professor and Faculty Advisor
Annenberg Communication Management program

Thursday, April 20, Annenberg Auditorium

5:30 - 7:00pm

Intimate reception following with panelist and fabulous French food

Benefits of Attending Event:

• Gain insightful career advice from three leaders in the communication field
• Learn how to move your career forward
• Challenges and opportunities in Marketing Communication
• How to successfully market yourself
• Networking!

RSVP HERE & enter a raffle to
Win a dinner for (2) at Café Marly (valued at $65)
Winner will be announced at event

*** BECOME A PANELIST HOST ***

• Meet and Greet Panelist
• Introduce Panelist at Event

Send a few sentences on who you would like to host and why you would like to host that panelist to
Professor Hollingshead- aholling@usc.edu By Wednesday, April 12. Professor Hollingshead will select hosts on Friday, April 14

The Tipping Point:
Careers in Marketing Communication

Featuring

Jerry Levin
Former CEO, Time Warner
Presiding Director, Moonview

Debbie Cantu
Vice President, Brand Marketing & Advertising
Kaiser Permanente

Gena Y. Davis (Annenberg Alumni)
Founder, Principal & Marketing Consultant
The Gena Davis Agency

Moderated by Andrea Hollingshead
Associate Professor and Faculty Advisor
Annenberg Communication Management program

Thursday, April 20, Annenberg Auditorium

5:30 - 7:00pm

Intimate reception following with panelist and fabulous French food

Benefits of Attending Event:

• Gain insightful career advice from three leaders in the communication field
• Learn how to move your career forward
• Challenges and opportunities in Marketing Communication
• How to successfully market yourself
• Networking!

RSVP HERE & enter a raffle to
Win a dinner for (2) at Café Marly (valued at $65)
Winner will be announced at event

*** BECOME A PANELIST HOST ***

• Meet and Greet Panelist
• Introduce Panelist at Event

Send a few sentences on who you would like to host and why you would like to host that panelist to
Professor Hollingshead- aholling@usc.edu By Wednesday, April 12. Professor Hollingshead will select hosts on Friday, April 14

Salary expectations and trends in the job market

Hi y'all,

I thought this looked really useful...

Salary expectations and trends in the job market

Host:  IABC USC Chapter

When:  Wednesday, April 19,

6:00pm

IABC/USC is excited to invite you to come hear Cathy Taylor, Vice President of TRRG Inc. speak about salary expectations for communication professionals and trends in the job market. Taylor has extensive experience in the industry and has worked on marketing, sales, and internal communication projects. Some of her past clients include Hewlett-Packard, Standard & Poor’s, and Visa USA.

Place: ASC 223 (ELC)

Time:

6:00-8:30 p.m.

Price: Free for members, $5 for non-members

So, um, how's it going?

I know everybody is the throws of final projects and papers as the downhill race toward the end of semester draws upon us. But! As we plan/register for next fall, I'm wondering if anyone wants to give a "thumbs up" to a course they would recommend, in sort of a recapping-spring-semester-salutation-kinda-way.

Myself, I am in two courses (not the brightest move while working fulltime, mind you) this semester, Interpreting Pop Culture seminar and Ad Strategy & Promotion (through Marshall). They've played off each other nicely, like two flip sides of the same coin. On the one hand, with the Marshall course, it has been challenging in that: A.) I am so not a business student and taking this class has made me fully aware of that fact - meaning: there's math involved (I know!) B.) There's a lot of terrain covered, so each class session is totally worth its time. Even having worked in Marketing for a spell I am learning a ton and trying to absorb it at what feel like an accelerated rate.
On the Pop Culture front - I am so glad I took this course - I saw it before I entered the program and was excited for it, and it has indeedy lived up its anticipations. It covers a lot of terrain as well, lectures are lively and use a variety of very relevant and engaging examples that we all know and love, such as Sex in the City, Dave Chapelle - and if you were in class last week, the classic Reality Show, "Are you Hot?" - to highlight different theories of cultural progression. The challenge (for me anyway) haven never taken a proper theory course is that I had to dust off the cobwebs in my crackled old head and start the wheels in motion toward a deeper level of analysis. That's right! Grad school is paying off! I'm hoping to get my professor on here, Christopher Smith, to introduce himself and give a little background on some of his intriguing work.

Which brings me to my next point - if anyone would like to invite their Teach or guest speaker on here to say a thing or two on their course de jour, by all means, let us know. And, once again, if anyone can give the scoop or insight on a course that made them tickled, spill the beans!