Get Hired After Graduation
3 Ways We Boost Your Career
Expert Career
Coaching
Miami Ad School instructors are all working industry professionals—and they’ll be happy to guide you through the ins and outs of portfolios, applications, interviews…the works.
You’ll also undertake courses specifically built to help you develop a professional portfolio.
Portfolio
Review
At the end of your time here, you’ll experience Portfolio Review—the ultimate career matchmaking opportunity. There’s nothing else like this on Earth. Students go through as many as 10 interviews in a day, meeting leaders in the creative industry and forging personal connections. Some get offers right away.
Networking &
Leads for Life
While still in school, you’ll build a professional network of more than 100 contacts. We also host an internal site where grads can find job leads posted by leading agencies (and post leads themselves!). We also use our closed Alumni group on LinkedIn to share updates, and encourage networking among our growing family of grads.
Your Career Starts the
Day You Come to Miami Ad School
Maybe that sounds like hyperbole. It’s anything but.
In most educational institutions, placement assistance—helping you actually get a job after graduation—is something that happens at the very end of your time there. Miami Ad School starts while you’re still in school.
You’ll take classes like “Get a Job, “How to Network”, and more. You’ll be encouraged to market yourself online, and take your own creative reputation seriously. By the time you actually graduate, you’ll already have spent quite a while preparing for the working world.
Graduate Portfolios
Justin Tompkins
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Professors' interactive teaching styles and the collaborative spirit of my peers resulted in award-winning campaigns.
Brett CollacoCopywriting (2021 - 2023) -
A friend of mine from Portfolio Center named Scott Stripling, told me about the shop. The day before they offered him a job, he got a job offer at the Martin Agency and took it. So Alex Bogusky asked Scott if he knew anybody else and he suggested me. I went down and freelanced for the weekend and didn’t get the job. Two years later I went back and got hired after sending Alex a photo of me in a Robin from Batman costume, holding a bottle of tequila with the words, “whatever it takes.”
Andrew KellerCreative and Experiential VP at Facebook -
Miami Ad School opened my mind to advertising and honed my thinking. Our instructors being from the industry itself showed me how to crack briefs and collaborate with my team to execute. Lastly, the global MAS family helped me build an extensive network through internships and events.”
Abhishek RasaneCopywriting (2021 - 2023) -
Be a rebel. Be a risk taker. You want to make ideas that change the world. Be the first to make something provocative. Don’t worry about being perfect—because perfect is boring.
Margaret JohnsonChief Creative Officer at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners -
This was a life-changing experience for me, from a shy timid girl to a very confident person who has fallen in love with the process of coming up with ideas, thanks to our professors who gave us the real industry view. The networking opportunities that school provides open up the world of advertising and this is the place to be to enter the advertising scene with a bang!
Manvir Kaur MahidwanArt Direction (2021 - 2022) -
I really wanted to be a creative writer and I was writing sketch comedy in college and then I found out there was a job that lets you write sketch comedy and then film it
Patrick MaravillaCreative Lead at Little Big Engine