Uma Rudd Tan
I helped startup and boost the Weber Shandwick creative department which includes a designer, a copywriter, a producer, an editor, a creative technologist and a project cum creative ops manager.
Question and Answer
How long have you worked at Weber Shandwick
2 years this December.
Whats the best thing you’ve ever seen happen inside the Weber Shandwick offices?
Our can do spirit. There are times when I wonder how we are going to pull an impossible task off. And then we just come together and do it. Truly, I believe we embody the we solve spirit in its truest way.
In Five Words or less, how would you describe your Weber Shandwick colleagues
Ambitious, Creative, Surprising, Resilient, Nuts.
Whats the coolest (or weirdest) thing you’ve had to do for a work project?
Go to a clients house on the eve of a holiday and present work in his living room – we won the pitch, so the weirdness was worth it.
If you need to get in the zone and focus on a project, what music is playing in your headphone?
MUSE.
Whats your favourite restaurant in Singapore?
So many. It changes by the season. Right now it’s the NEXT DOOR SPANISH CAFÉ at Siglap, where they give me complimentary snacks or even a space when it’s fully booked.
Do you have a favourite artist?
Call me traditional but I love Vincent Van Gogh. My kids (when they were just 7 and 5) and I visited the MUSEUM of MODERN ART in New York and saw “the starry night”, it moved us to tears. It’s alive. It speaks. It unveils the tortured soul of the artist.
Where would you love to travel in the world to gain inspiration?
Cuba.
If you weren’t working in this industry, what would you want to do?
Be a TV evangelist or a rock star. I actually enjoy speaking on stage to an audience and inspiring them to become awesome.
Whats the best piece of career advice you’ve ever gotten?
When you’re interviewing for a job, don’t talk about what you’ve done. Instead talk about what you can do for the company you are interviewing with.