I don’t have an award for companies like yours, rather they are for people that show they get it and do their own personal branding. I’d love submissions of your clients that you have.

Also, the CreativeCamp sounds like a BLAST, I wish I could go. It is in Philadelphia, so anyone that can go I highly recommend it (a high priority for me, if I were going, would have to be to eat those incredible steak sandwiches every day! I don’t know why no one else can make them quite the same!)

I also extend the metaphor of a personal brand to the job search process. More often than not, the search is more like the selling of a product and the marketing should be approached as such.

Working with creative and marketing professionals, I can attest to the challenge that selling can be, especially for those of us that aren’t salespeople! But keep the following branding tactics in mind for your job search, might come in handy:
-awareness is key, so meet people (and keep in touch, top of mind), post blog comments, set up a website, get your name and identity out there!
-try non-traditional channels (monster probably won’t cut it) like calling instead of emailing, get someone’s attention
-figure out the right target and know how to reach them (read: the more you know about the person reading your resume, the better you can tailor the information to them to grab their interest)
-answer the same questions for your resume as you do when making a purchase: why would they need me? what can I do for them that they might not already have? focus on the unique identifiers!

and as always, feel free to check out cmaccess.com for more career advocacy! we’re organizing the second barcamp/meetup CreativeCamp coming up–might we be eligible for the “get it” award?

http://www.creativecamp.org