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  • Continuity13

    (Caveat: the following is from my perspective working in advertising agencies, not pure-play design shops. YMMV.)

    Here's my 0,02 € as both a seemingly serial job-hunter, and as someone whose had to hire everything from copywriters to art directors to motion designers to everything in between:

    • Specialism — in my experience — is done.
    Agencies and their clients have been entirely too stingy for the last 10-15 years to pony up for specialists. I can't even recall the number of times I've had to try to find that magic unicorn of an art director who can not only come up with TVC ideas, but can also do print and rub out a website or two; simply by virtue of the fact that no-one wanted to invest any money in someone who does one thing really, really, really well.

    That said, if you want to go into one design discipline, I think that the situation is slightly different with design shops. Especially with digital shops, they're still looking for UX/UI designers. But, since I have no experience with design shops, I could be talking bollocks, here.

    • Re: LinkedIn.
    I hate LinkedIn. I fucking despise LinkedIn. It's a never-ending circle-jerk of creatives humble-bragging their latest Lion or Effie or ADC nail, and everyone else piling on the insincere effusive praise. It's digusting. Or dropping pearls of wisdom everyone in the business should have learnt in their first year of career, but framing it like it's the hottest new thing in advertising, and earning All The Kudos for sharing their 'wisdom'.

    Rather unfortunately for the rest of us, though, LinkedIn kind of needs to be the first job hunting port of call. The fact of the matter is that all of the people in the business are there, and it's easy to fire off messages to the people who need to see them, bypassing HR departments altogether (I hate having to deal with HR first, I prefer going for CCOs and ECDs).

    • Headhunters:
    Fuck them. They're as useless as tits on bulls. I've never had a good experience with those two-faced vultures. Most of them will ghost you. And, actually, it's not their job to find you a new gig; the people who pay for their rails of cocaine are the agencies, once an employment contract has been signed. Which means, they would only theoretically knock on your door if they think you're the right guy to get them that sweet, sweet blow cash. Which is, unfortunately, exceptionally unlikely, because so many job-hunters have sent these useless turds their CVs that they're overflowing. Skip these arseholes.

    Best of luck, my man, you do lovely work and you're good people.

    • Ignore the typos. ICF today.Continuity
    • Love this @Continuity.

      Refreshing.
      ideaist
    • @Continuity damn, did you just called me a magic unicorn?! lolgrafician
    • Show me your book, and I'll let you know.Continuity
    • Not in advertising anymore
      https://dribbble.com…
      grafician
    • @grafician i like your confidencerenderedred
    • In film advertising our teams are often composed of specialists. One pod often contains a type guy, as matte painter and a couple designersscarabin
    • @scarabin In pod we trust.ideaist
    • There is so much circle jerking going these days. Is it a game you have to play?Chimp
    • I enjoyed this.rootlock
    • This should be in the useful thread.slappy
    • too many words...would not fuck.utopian

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