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If you consider what one of the biggest trends is in the creative industry job market right now, it is the frequent request to have skills in the UX space. This is clearly causing more and more frustration for many traditional print designers who are unsure about how to make t...

Hi Everyone I’m Vicki-Anne from Creative Recruiters This week I’ve been speaking to in-house Creative Services Managers and Studio Managers, asking them two questions. Firstly, what is their greatest concern as a CSM right now. And, what are they ideally hoping for? The answer...

This week’s Virtual Meetup saw the team discussing ways to stay motivated in 2020, and was a topic that I began writing about last week. The topic itself can be a complex one and so I felt it would be worthwhile to continue exploring it further this week. Why do we lack motiva...

It's a tough time out there, especially if you're a Melburnian. We have winter making it harder to get up in the morning. We have stage 3 restrictions making some feel trapped and isolated. We have a recession making many feel a lack of job security or frustrated with trying t...

Have you ever seen what happens to a chip when it is thrown into a field of hungry seagulls? You wouldn't want to be that chip. This is what a lot of businesses who are in a fortunate position to hire someone at the moment must feel their job is like. In the past, a job that m...

Well another 6 weeks in lockdown completely sucks. It’s not what anyone wanted but we all know someone who hasn’t done the right thing. Multiply that by all of those people and here we are in a second wave. My team and I at Creative Recruiters have been doing everything we can...

One of the things I’ve been telling everyone lately is that they need to be spending this down time right now to focus on ‘becoming a unicorn’. What I mean by that is simply this; businesses have had to let go of their teams. Over time as we move closer and closer to an econom...

It’s been 3.5 months since I went into Quarantine after arriving home from overseas. Within a few days my team was also working from home and our business as we knew it was about to change dramatically. Not as busy filling jobs as I normally am, I have instead spent the past f...

When I first met Jane, we had been working together in the same company years before. I already knew that she was a talented graphic designer who had a bright career ahead of her. Jane always gave 100% to her employers but like many graphic designers, she faced boredom and bur...

It seems inevitable that when I speak to anyone about the current job market, I need to remind them that I don't have my crystal ball technology working just yet. While many experienced recruiters may have gone through a recession or global financial crisis in their time, we'v...