Unpaid Work: What are the Pitfalls and How Can It Damage Your Company’s Reputation?

icreatives blogger2020-08-20T13:17:37+00:00Unpaid 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...

New Talent in the Workplace: How Can You Accommodate Them So They Can Thrive?

icreatives blogger2020-08-17T16:38:23+00:00When 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...

When to Ask a Designer Job Candidate for a Design Test: Should It Be Paid?

icreatives blogger2020-08-12T13:28:11+00:00Discovering 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...

8 Ways to Keep Your Talent Happy So That They Never Leave

icreatives blogger2020-08-10T15:50:10+00:00Employees 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...

How to Hire Senior Talent the Right Way

icreatives blogger2020-08-06T12:38:49+00:00Senior 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...

Why Temp Work is Great if You’re Looking to Get Back to Work

icreatives blogger2020-08-03T20:22:10+00:00Employment 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...

How Do Staffing Agencies Source Talent So You Don’t Have To

icreatives blogger2020-07-30T20:45:01+00:00We’ve already discussed at length the reasons and benefits of using a creative staffing agency. Understanding how a staffing agency qualifies and finds talent is as important as knowing what it does. It’ll put in perspective the full range of tasks and expenses that...

How to Build a LinkedIn Profile that Will Land You Job Offers

icreatives blogger2020-07-27T19:11:02+00:00If you haven’t heard of LinkedIn by now, you’re already a step behind. From headhunters to hiring managers and recruiters, it’s one of the most popular ways to field applications from creative talent. Perhaps there are other ways to find jobs that don’t require...

What Are the Reasons and Benefits of Why You Should Use a Staffing Agency

icreatives blogger2020-07-23T20:16:56+00:00Statistics from the United States Bureau of Labor statistics indicate that 6.5 million hires were made in May 2020. All sorts of businesses have been growing and recovering slowly since the drop off earlier in the 2020 year, and creative industries and art departments...

Everything You Need to Know About Hiring a Solid Content Writer

icreatives blogger2020-07-22T14:19:30+00:00Whatever product and services your company offers, content is key to communicating it to your customer base. Content is writing and it might be the first interaction a potential customer has with your brand or product. Good content writing should create interest where it didn’t...