I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago with a partner at an integrated marketing agency here in Portland. I had commented that in my search for a new opportunity, I’d noticed that while I had spent the vast majority of my career in sales, marketing and PR, the interest I’d received was almost exclusively for PR positions. I received almost no interest at all when inquiring about marketing positions. He smiled at me and said quite bluntly, “You’ve spent the past 16