August 2020
Unpaid Work: What are the Pitfalls and How Can It Damage Your Company’s Reputation?
Unpaid work has an understandable appeal for creatives and the companies that hire them. Businesses naturally love to have people without needing to pay them and for many new or soon-to-be graduates with no prior professional experience, unpaid positions can offer the opportunity to test out a job or...
New Talent in the Workplace: How Can You Accommodate Them So They Can Thrive?
When the search is over, and your company finally has the perfect candidate hired and onboarded into a position, how do you keep them happy to make sure they stay? More importantly, rather than trying to keep them in one place, what’s the best way to facilitate their growth...
When to Ask a Designer Job Candidate for a Design Test: Should It Be Paid?
Discovering all the skills a potential new hire possesses can be difficult. To truly vet candidates, some design firms, art department heads, and hiring managers have taken to using design tests, which they describe as test-runs for the aspiring designer. The problem with design tests is that they are...
8 Ways to Keep Your Talent Happy So That They Never Leave
Employees leave companies for a variety of reasons. While it’s unrealistic to expect to have a 100% employee retention rate, there are plenty of ways to make the office environment and the role the talent plays more appealing to entice them to stay or prevent them from looking elsewhere. Many...
How to Hire Senior Talent the Right Way
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...
Why Temp Work is Great if You’re Looking to Get Back to Work
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...
July 2020
How Do Staffing Agencies Source Talent So You Don’t Have To
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...
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...
