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This week we met with a candidate that had been struggling to find freelance work for 12 months.  At first we wondered what was wrong because he has highly sought after skills, he is a really nice guy and he’s been in the industry for a long time.  Then we started to talk to h...

To be honest, for much of my working life, I’ve always been plagued by a concern that maybe I wasn’t very good at my job.   Despite the fact that there were targets being met and strong relationships being built, there was a part of me that always felt like any success had com...

“The next time you catch yourself complaining about something, stop and do something about it.”   For me, hearing someone complain about something and watching them NOT do anything about it is like nails down a blackboard.   I’m a problem solver, a solution provider. It’s who ...

I only started to notice this a few months ago but it seems to be something that is becoming more and more constant nowadays.  In the past, it existed as a simple rejection but now it seems to have a little more attitude and smugness attached to it.  What is it, I hear you ask...

One of the biggest changes the creative industry has had to endure directly from the pandemic is the location of their creative studio.   Since the beginning of the creative studios, it has always been something that has been done ‘together’, collaboratively, in teams.  The wh...

Be honest now, what do you do with your catalogues when you get them from the letterbox? I know some people who will sit down and casually browse through them while enjoying a coffee and a break. Others will just throw them immediately into the bin.  Fingers crossed it is goin...

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...

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?   Th...

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 mot...

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...