Welcome to Chaloner’s 101 series! Soon-to-be/new grads can read these articles and gain insights into some of their workplace options in the world of communications from industry veterans. For our first article, we’re taking a look at agency life. We recently interviewed Adrienne Petz, Partner at Trident GMG. Trident is a strategic and risk advisory…

At this point, most of us know you shouldn’t bring your dad to your interview (something one of our candidates did once!), but you may or may not know that you shouldn’t show up with an iced coffee in hand or swirl it while you’re talking. We’ve talked to our recruiting team and put together…

This past Valentine’s Day, we launched the second Chaloner Survey of 2025 and had a record number of respondents. While I proposed we title the survey “Roses are red. Violets are blue. We hope you love your recruiter because your recruiter loves you,” I was overruled and we went with “Working with your recruiter.” We…

At the start of Covid-19, remote work became a staple of life for so many of us regardless of whether we’d gone into the office full-time before. Hybrid policies were relatively rare in those pre-Covid days. Now, the expectation of flexibility has turned the idea of a return to office into a horror story for…

Last year, we asked our community a series of questions about their holiday vacation plans. The results revealed some not-so-surprising similarities to what we see in the news about the difficulty many of us have with disconnecting from work while on PTO. We didn’t change the questions when we repeated the survey since we wanted…

Last month, we talked about recruiter-candidate relationships. This month, we’re diving back in but from the client side of things. Like with part one of our recruiter relationship articles, we have advice that boils down to a couple of things: communication and staying in touch! Clients who work with us as a partner rather than…

Be CoolBe KindShow RespectGive GraceOffer HelpSeek SupportInclude EveryoneAsk Questions Signs in an elementary school classroom? Messages on the wall of a corporate conference room used for brainstorming? Perhaps. But last week, these were the mantras assigned to all members attending ComNET24. These were the eight boxes on the B-side of the name tags that we…

Have you ever worked with an external recruiter? If you have, you’re very familiar with the benefits. You gain an advocate in your job search and an expert in recruitment in your corner. We can advise you on how to best present your materials to the companies we work with. We can help you prepare…

You completed all the interviews. Your references were contacted. But when you gave notice at your company, you were faced with something you may or may not have expected: a counteroffer.  So now what do you do? There are many considerations in weighing your options.  We always recommend asking yourself why you’re pursuing a new…

ChatGPT did NOT write this article. But if we’ve learned anything from our survey, it’s that we might let it write a future one. Well, a future first draft.  Since ChatGPT’s introduction at the end of 2022, generative AI has been of speculation on what we might or might not be able to use it…