How To Properly Apply for a Design Position
Things that matter
- Work quality in your portfolio
- Are you a cool person
- Do I know anyone who knows you
Things that don’t matter: your resume and school you graduated from—if you graduated.
Maxing out Your Triangle
I find that most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons:
- To learn something new
- To pay the bills
- Because they love doing it
If you have a terrible job, come up with new ways to learn something out of it. If you have a hobby you’re super-excited about, try to turn it into a business. If you’re just starting a new gig, instill it with something you’re passionate about.
Read the entire post on Maxing out Your Triangle by writer and designer Jack Cheng
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The Google Job Experiment
Knowing that all creative directors have at least an ounce of narcissism in their blood, Alec Brownstein decided to take out Google Ads for five prominent advertising creative directors. When the creative directors googled themselves they were presented with an ad asking for a job. Out of the five ads, Alec interviewed with four of them and got job offers from two. Today he’s working at Y&R New York. In all it only cost him $6.
