Month: August 2020
27August2020
What is a Temp Web Designer and When Should You Hire One?
Managers are frequently confused by the role of a web designer, confusing it with a web developer or programmer. Worse yet, many think it is not an essential position or even mistake it as an easy job that anyone could do. Web design is responsible for the company website and how it appears to customers. […]
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25August2020
How Remote Work is Changing the Way We Hire Creatives in 2020
COVID-19 fundamentally changed the way people relate to the work they do. For creatives, many tools of the trade were already digital, so when companies suddenly had to rely on remote work from home to stay afloat, creatives were in a more fortunate position than other hands-on industries. But just like creatives have had to […]
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20August2020
Unpaid Work: What are the Pitfalls and How Can It Damage Your Company’s Reputation?
Unpaid work has an understandable appeal for creatives and the companies that hire them. Businesses naturally love to have people without needing to pay them and for many new or soon-to-be graduates with no prior professional experience, unpaid positions can offer the opportunity to test out a job or get some initial exposure to the […]
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17August2020
New Talent in the Workplace: How Can You Accommodate Them So They Can Thrive?
When the search is over, and your company finally has the perfect candidate hired and onboarded into a position, how do you keep them happy to make sure they stay? More importantly, rather than trying to keep them in one place, what’s the best way to facilitate their growth so that they can move up […]
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12August2020
When to Ask a Designer Job Candidate for a Design Test: Should It Be Paid?
Discovering all the skills a potential new hire possesses can be difficult. To truly vet candidates, some design firms, art department heads, and hiring managers have taken to using design tests, which they describe as test-runs for the aspiring designer. The problem with design tests is that they are intended to put design knowledge on […]
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10August2020
8 Ways to Keep Your Talent Happy So That They Never Leave
Employees leave companies for a variety of reasons. While it’s unrealistic to expect to have a 100% employee retention rate, there are plenty of ways to make the office environment and the role the talent plays more appealing to entice them to stay or prevent them from looking elsewhere. Many department heads and other decision-makers wrongly […]
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06August2020
How to Hire Senior Talent the Right Way
Senior talent is the most challenging hiring decision a company can make. After all, successful executives may stay in their position for 10 years or more. They have a huge impact on team morale and dictate the course of business. Depending on the size of the company, the decision-making process might be shared between several […]
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03August2020
Why Temp Work is Great if You’re Looking to Get Back to Work
Employment can be lost for many reasons – company restructuring, a weak economy, new technology, and a wide host of other causes. Almost everyone has some experience with finding a new job and unless you’re very lucky, that transition can be a hard one. It takes time to update your resume if you haven’t in […]
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