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Design Careers: Industry Advice & Job Search Tips
Create a Design Career Map to Chart Your Next Move
Many people embark on professional journeys without any clear sense of their destination. That’s why you need a career map — a detailed plan that includes your long-term professional goals and action steps for achieving them.
Becoming a Specialist Generalist: The Multidisciplinary Digital Creative
The key to future-proofing your career as a digital creative is to be flexible and become a specialist generalist—a digital creative who can diversify.
Creative Freelancers: Are You an Accidental Workaholic?
There are many joys of being a thriving freelancer, like choosing your projects and deciding when and where you work. But there are perpetual challenges, too, like managing client requests when you’re swamped or simply need time to decompress. Often, …
Categories: Design Careers: Industry Advice & Job Search Tips, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: Career advice, career tips, client relations, Designers, freelance, freelancing
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5 Tips for Using Humor to Your Advantage
Want to get ahead in your design career? Here are 5 tips for bringing your sense of humor into the office to diffuse creative tension and project overload.
What to Do Before Accepting a Job Offer
We’re all looking for “the job.” When you do find it and have the offer laid out in front of you, there are six tips offered by The Creative Group to keep in mind just before you say yes.
Creating Clout Within Your In-House Design Department
Following are some tactics to help raise your visibility and gain clout at your organization.
Design Career: Landing High-Profile Projects
High-profile dream projects can enhance your design career and give your portfolio a big boost. Here’s how to get in line for these top projects.
Backstage at the Design Awards
Design Awards. Yeah, I know, I know. Mention that you received a design award to another designer and their eyes roll—followed by a sarcastic grin. It’s worse than name-dropping. But if you’re part of an in-house design department and you …
How to Present Your Creative Portfolio
Your portfolio is finished so the hard part is over. Right? Learn from hiring managers and career gurus how to present your best creative portfolio with panache.
6 Tips for Creating a Great Online Portfolio
Looking for a job in graphic or web design? An online portfolio is essential to landing your next creative gig. Get expert tips on building a portfolio.
