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.

July 27 2020
How to Build a LinkedIn Profile that Will Land You Job Offers
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…
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July 23 2020
What Are the Reasons and Benefits of Why You Should Use a Staffing Agency
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…
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July 22 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Hiring a Solid Content Writer
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 -…
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July 17 2020
Insourcing vs Outsourcing: Is One Better than the Other?
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…
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July 17 2020
What’s the Difference Between Temp, Full-Time, and Contract Employees?
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…
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July 14 2020
8 Things to Look for When Hiring a UX/UI Designer
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…
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July 9 2020
What is Insourcing and How Can Staffing Agencies Help?
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…
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December 17 2016
Is 2017 the year for VR and AR marketing?
Marketers face a vast new challenges, or is it perhaps the same challenge as always: Stay on the cutting edge of technological advancements, reach the target market and provide a product that can be easily identified amidst the competition. Textbooks may teach the objectives, however, now more than ever...
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December 17 2016
Share All Year
With the holiday hustle and bustle almost over, we can take that spirit of helping one another by saving a little all year round… If you don’t already have one in place, it is a good time to start a physical coupon board or basket, near on office stopping spot
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October 24 2016
Let’s Chat Chatbot
Research shows that messaging apps are on the rise and have outpaced the increment of social network growth. For marketers, this means new strategies should be put in place to reach the well-defined growing trend. Looking forward, companies that are aiming to be found where the consumers are racing to in herds must find a…
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