Creative Staffing Insights & Hiring Intelligence
Insights from icreatives on hiring graphic designers, UX professionals, marketing talent, and building high-performing creative teams. Explore trends in creative staffing, employer branding, remote work, and portfolio hiring.
December 20 2021
All the glamour of the people we see in front of cameras and on stages requires immense amounts of support from creatives. Outside the spotlight, people are designing marketing campaigns for movies and albums, managing social media accounts for the stars, explaining complicated intellectual property rights with accessible content, and designing the platforms where people…
December 17 2021
Coming up with a snappy slogan isn’t easy. People come into contact with such a huge number of advertisements and marketing materials that the odds of any individual slogan sticking out in their mind are slim to none. Slogans are a crucial part of branding because they’re usually the first interaction people have with a…
December 15 2021
For the most part, there’s no fixed format for a software development team. There are three general structures for these teams that have certain advantages depending on the goal of the project. Considerations like project complexity and the budget should also be factored in when determining how a software developing team is managed. Software is…
December 6 2021
What’s the best way for creatives to ensure job security? Tons of different changes hit just about every industry constantly. It could be sudden imbalances in the labor market or a huge technological shift - creatives need to be wary of such changes if they want to make sure they can still find work in…
December 2 2021
Branding aims to impact people’s choices. Whenever we decide on something, certain parts of our brain are hard at work recalling past experiences and associations we have between brands and the criteria we use to make a selection. Neuroscience can help explain why certain branding strategies are more effective than others. Gaining a broad understanding…
November 29 2021
The text you see on websites and apps isn’t an afterthought. It’s all designed and tested to guide you along the path that the UX designer and creative team want you to take. A UX copywriter’s responsibility is to find the words and text that will suit the intended user journey. Like most jobs in…
November 22 2021
We currently live in an overworked culture. Staying late at the office, taking on multiple jobs, and heaping tons of additional projects on top of an already hefty workload are all seen as respectable parts of “the grind,” which itself has acquired a nearly moral attachment in the general psyche. Hard work should be respected,…
November 19 2021
Attracting the right candidate shortens the hiring process and saves big on costs. How can businesses hope to accomplish this goal reliably with each new posting? It’s not always easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. Candidates may not have the requisite experience or perhaps the whole job market is slim in your sector.…
November 15 2021
Five generations make up the current workforce. A larger percentage of sixty-plus people are working now than ever before. On the other end of the spectrum, young people are starting their careers earlier thanks to early and continuous access to the internet and computers to branch out from traditional school curricula on their own. Are…
November 1 2021
The legal field has plenty of possible roles for creatives. Although lawyers and paralegals need a legal education, their firms and projects still need designers, developers, and social media managers. Like it or not, law firms are a business. They need the same sort of skills that other businesses use for advertising, SEO, and managing…