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 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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October 24 2016
Is Customer Experience the Next Killer App?
Everyone in service businesses talk about it. Amazon.com lists more than 100,000 titles on the topic. Sometimes it seems like it’s a quest that challenges every business owner in America. I’m talking about the concept of “exceptional customer service.” If I had a nickel for every business owner who ever said that they wanted to…
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October 24 2016
For the Sake of Debate
With the thick undercurrent and endless political rhetoric these days, perhaps it’s time to clear the air and have some expressive creative fun to get the juices flowing. Get your group together. Here’s the idea.
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September 2 2016
Scavenger Hunt
There is something special about the well polished competitive spirit, especially when it strengthens the creative team and stimulates the mind. Here is an idea to enliven your office and even get your freelancers involved for some fun. Remember everyone loves prizes, from gift cards to privileges, to time off or notoriety so here’s this…
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