Guest Speakers - The Creative Group




Today we had our first guest speakers come to class and talk to us about how creative placement agencies work. Our guests, Amy and Melissa, shared a lot of valuable information with us. They talked about how their specific agency gets hired by different design agencies or clients to search for designers that can help them out on different projects they're working on. They went into detail about how that works, who pays who, how the designer gets paid, and the hunting process they go through to find good designers for their clients.

It all sounded complicated at first, but the more they explained how it works, the more I understood the whole process. I had no idea agencies like theirs even existed in the first place before they came to our class. I had always just assumed companies and clients just had a hiring manager/department that took care of recruiting new employees. When they explained the different reasons a client might turn to them, it helped me realize that no matter how successful a company may be, they're still not exempt from life situations that may force their best designers to leave or quit in the middle of an important project. In instances like those, they really do need their help to find someone to fill in asap because everyone will be too busy to go through a bunch of resumes and portfolios.

I really liked that they took the time to come and talk to us about all of this because I was able to learn a lot through their presentation. Melissa even offered to review our resumes. I'm definately gonna keep them in mind as I begin to forge a career in graphic design.

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