Advertising professionals combine skills in design, writing, strategic planning and branding for use in a wide range of media. Their role is to come up with "the big idea" that communicates an advertising message creatively, to reach and influence specific target audiences.
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- Account executive
- Art director
- Copywriter
- Creative director
- Design director
- Display director
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- Creative services manager
- Graphic designer for publishing and advertising
- Environmental designer
- Information designer
- Multimedia designer
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- Sign systems designer
- Strategic planner
- Web designer
- Graphic designer for newspapers
- Graphic designer for the printing industry
Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Employers of SCAD alumni include:
- ARC Worldwide/Leo Burnett Advertising
- Atlanta Falcons
- BBDO Worldwide
- BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Company
- Capstrat
- Cartoon Network
- Crispin Porter + Bogusky
- Deutsch Inc.
- Draftfcb
- Droga5
- Erwin-Penland
- Foote, Cone & Belding
- Forbes
- Hartmann Studios
- Lloyd & Co.
- McCann-Erickson Worldwide
- Media General
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ogilvy & Mather
- Vanity Fair
