Sydney expat Bec Matliosk on transferring to McCann in New York
Bec Matliosk in New York
Australian selling experience is increasingly being lured offshore by worldwide corporations.
Bec Matlioski, former senior copywriter at M&C Saatchi AUNZ and a mentor at The Aunties, is one amongst many headhunted by firms overseas.
The switch bought right here from casual networking at The Cannes Lions Worldwide Competitors of Creativity, the place she met a recruiter for selling firm group McCann. Following a pair post-festival conversations she accepted a additional senior place.
Three months into her affiliate inventive director place at McCann New York, Matlioski instructed AdNews what the strategy is like transferring from Sydney to the US.
McCann New York Office. By means of McCanny.
“I was positively nervous sooner than the switch. Like terribly,” Matlioski said.
“Nevertheless I merely went with it and embraced the uncertainty.
“I assumed the work was going to be truly highly effective, with a fast-paced New Yorker vitality to each little factor, nonetheless I was pleasantly shocked by how extraordinarily supportive and hospitable everybody appears to be.”
McCann handled each little factor required for an E-3 visa, making the paperwork “surprisingly simple”.
The E-3 classification is given solely to Australians moving into the US to fill a spot that qualifies as a specialty occupation. Visa holders ought to moreover possess a bachelor’s or bigger diploma.
The E-3 visa is eligible for two years and could also be extended for as long as desired.
“There’s a bunch of paperwork you could current which required quite a lot of digging by way of my earlier to get each little factor collectively, it positively takes months nonetheless it wasn’t fairly anxious in my experience,” Matiloski said.
Although Matiloski has on a regular basis wished to remain overseas and whereas it will not be an experience for everyone, anyone can obtain from working in a novel nation.
“I’m so grateful to have started my occupation in Australia because of I really feel in that market you should be nimble and benefit from your alternate options.
“Nevertheless because of in America the budgets, the way in which wherein media works and the audiences are very completely totally different – the work pushes you out of your comfort zone and challenges your pondering.
“As an example, I’ll probably counsel an notion and the response is probably – ‘oh, that isn’t an element proper right here’ – which I’m nonetheless getting used to.”
For these aspiring to remain and work overseas too, Matlioski’s suggestion is:
“I might attain out to individuals who discover themselves doing it already sooner than you allow Australia – the advice I obtained from people over proper right here was so invaluable.
“Because of I had utterly no thought regarding the American market. Nevertheless I requested my connections about each little factor from wage, to what the market is choose to the type of work that’s making an impression.
“9 events out of 10 individuals are greater than happy that may show you how to because of they’ve achieved it in order that they know what it’s like.
“The Aussie group inside the New York selling commerce might be very cool, Aussies truly go an prolonged choice to make you are feeling cozy.
“All in all, I’m nonetheless very loads navigating a model new nation and market nonetheless I am going to say—to this point, so satisfying.”
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