It's a year of anniversaries. The MJ set the tone in January, with its hugely impressive celebration of 125 years at the heart of local government. Congratulations to everyone who's steered this Magnificent Journal through the vicissitudes of over a century and quarter, including (of course) you, its wonderful readership. It's an amazing achievement. More modestly, this week sees us mark the 21st anniversary of our collective entrance into recruitment marketing, in March 1998. As a recognisable sub-division of the advertising industry, it was then flourishing but largely under the radar. Clustered around an as-yet ungentrified Farringdon and Clerkenwell, it had its own language, traditions and rivalries; entering the agency world (in our case, Bartlett Advertising of blessed memory) was often a slightly unplanned career choice - once memorably described by a colleague as being comparable to the way 'a drunk man enters a swimming pool'.
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