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.
August 6 2020
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…
August 3 2020
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…
July 30 2020
We’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 your company will no longer have to worry about. Not only…
July 27 2020
If 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 you to be internet-savvy, but for the biggest names in creative…
July 23 2020
Statistics 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 are certainly amongst those positions on the rebound. While this is…
July 22 2020
Whatever 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 exist before and then transform that interest into action -…
July 17 2020
Hiring outside entities to handle some of the workload has been a common business strategy since at least the 1980s, but it’s now created a kind of reaction: insourcing. The idea that some of those duties would be better or more cheaply done in-house hit some businesses like a revelation, but others who have been…
July 17 2020
Running a successful operation requires a rolling cycle of skilled labor. Some of the tasks essential to running a business must be done by employees who are well versed in the company’s goals and brand. Other potentially simpler tasks like creating a one-time mailer or brochure might be more suitable for temp or freelance workers…
July 14 2020
Navigating the process of finding the high-quality talent needed to construct the face and experience of a product in the ubiquitous digital apps and webpages of modern marketplaces can be tough. Not only can it be difficult to find brilliant architects of user experiences and interfaces, but once you find the talent pool it can…
July 9 2020
Ever since the 1990s outsourcing boom started to wane in the new millennium, many companies have started to realize that the purported benefits of sending key services like IT and UI/UX design - cost savings, to name one - didn’t last or never came to fruition at all. As a result, they had to find…