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.
October 22 2020
2020 was a landmark year in many ways, including how it transformed the way many of us do our jobs. In many cases, people whose jobs were moved to working remotely in 2020 are looking at a permanent change rather than a short-term one. Companies like saving money on rent for huge brick and mortar…
October 20 2020
Writing a cover letter that properly illustrates your skills and personality is one of the most challenging parts of a job application. Unlike employment history and case studies, cover letters don’t have an objective point of view. Walking the line between informing a prospective employer of your skills and experience and bragging about how great…
October 16 2020
A growing number of industry experts are talking about a hiring spike in the UX/UI design field. Some revelations from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s latest jobs report indicate that this growth may already be starting, in large part due to companies’ mad rush to get their business models and supply chains online. User experience…
October 13 2020
As 2020 begins to wind down, it’s important to take a retrospective on our working lives and how much has changed. Like many landmark years before it, 2020 will go down in history as one of the largest tidal changes in the world labor market. A significant percentage of people now do remote work regularly…
October 9 2020
Remote work is becoming increasingly common even without the unprecedented changes 2020 brought us. As many of the elements of traditional office work have disappeared, many creatives are finding it hard to stay on top of deadlines and work tasks. Oddly enough, working from the place where we’re most comfortable appears to have taken some…
October 6 2020
More and more frequently, companies are including partial or full-time working from home positions into their employment structures. This is in large part due to the development of new technology and the growing abundance of faster internet connections that enable people to reliably get work done outside of a traditional office. Less frequently discussed is…
September 24 2020
Designers are commonly tasked with building websites, apps, and other products that can be viewed on all the various platforms we use to access the internet today. Computers, smartphones, wearable tech, and tablets all have different limitations in terms of the way they handle webpages. There are two ways to solve this problem: responsive and…
September 22 2020
Continuing education is imperative for creatives to stay keen and on the cutting edge of ideas in their respective fields. Each year, over one million books are printed in the United States and a significant number of those are about design thinking. For those not familiar, design thinking is a process by which designers and…
September 17 2020
There are few better feelings than getting a raise at work. For many designers, knowing when or if they should even ask for a pay raise is a common dilemma. Asking for a raise is almost always intimidating and many designers fear that they will damage their reputation with a company or with management if…
September 14 2020
Case studies are an essential part of any design portfolio and can be the most illustrative aspect of the application process when used correctly. Too often, though, a UX portfolio will be submitted with case studies that come up short. Rather than giving prospective employers a sense of past projects and problem-solving, candidates with underwhelming…