PPC Experience, Unlike Wine 🍷 It Doesn’t Age Well In PPC, once you’ve mastered the basics, outdated knowledge becomes your worst crutch. If your interview pitch rests on years of experience, that isn’t helping you. It’s holding you back. This industry reinvents itself every 3 years. ♻️ Relying on “X years of expertise” might actually hurt your opportunities. Here’s a better way to position yourself: Instead of: “I have 10+ years of experience.” Say: “Here’s what I’ve learned in the last 6 months.” Instead of: “I won an award in 2021.” Say: “I recently rewrote an award-winning strategy to adapt to current events.” Instead of: “I’ve worked with X number of big brands.” Say: “I helped scale a small startup that disrupted an incumbent.” PPC hiring is unlike most industries. It’s not about how long you’ve been around. It’s about how fast you can adapt. 🏎️ Let’s start measuring success by what’s recent, not what’s outdated. And that hiring thing, I’ve built a system.⚙️
I disagree with this pretty strongly. Sure, the tech changes and we need to adapt. But the "old experience" is incredibly relevant today, and impossible to gain now. Search impression share, auction insights, conversion bidding vs manual bidding, identifying channel saturation by monitoring CPCs - the fundamentals. Think of all of the newbies launching performance max campaigns without having a clue of what's happening under the hood. It was us "old experience" guys that called BS and later proved that the new tech doesn't work the way Google said it worked. Sure adapting is important, but being in the industry for a long time definitely isn't a red flag. This "old experience" is actually heavily sought after now. I know several people looking for experienced Google buyers, and they're almost impossible to find now. The reality is the "Google rep" playbook doesn't work, and enough people have been burned now to question the direction of the platform.
Yes tech changes but if you're hiring for energy and testing new toys hire young if you need experience and someone to lead teams then....oh yes show me you did it. As someone with 10 years experience in paid ads I'm offended 😂
I dont think the above counts to only your industry, Saying I got a participation award in 2019 like you said isnt going to do it, In Short I have learnt its all outcome based, in X time I did Y and it achieved Z.
Cheers 🥂 to environments and employers who gives the freedom to experiment and grow.
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Couldn’t agree more Andrew!! 20 years ads experience is up there with “previously worked at Google”! It’s not worth what you think
Well put Andrew 👏🏼
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2wFor those who read this as I’m taking a dig at the PPC legends, that’s not my intention. My point is recent experience > outdated experience.