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Best Practices For Remote Meetings
As digital communications technology becomes ever more efficient, more projects are being done by remote workers and even entire remote teams. This means that digital meetings are becoming the norm. On-site teams are also making the most of the convenience of digital meeting technology. In some respects, digital meetings are easier to run than their in-person equivalents. However, to be…
Job Hunting Best Practices
When attempting to move up in creative careers, especially when switching fields, job seekers are haunted by one perennial frustration: it can be hard to get experience when you don’t already have experience. Hiring managers and creative recruiters gravitate toward candidates who already have proven track records and know how to navigate the responsibilities that come with new opportunities. If…
Best Practices For Managing A Remote Team
With communication technology steadily improving and facilitating easier exchanges of information across points around the globe, the world is getting flatter, and the workplace is becoming more location-independent. Remote work is on the rise, and will likely become even more popular as time goes on. Managers should be ready to facilitate success for remote workers and teams. If you aren’t…
Emphasize Responsibilities vs. Job Titles
A job title is a noun. In terms of your professional life, it is what you are. If you want to unlock more opportunities, level up in your creative career, and maybe even feel better about yourself, we suggest thinking in verbs and focusing less on what you are and more on what you do. When you’re reworking your creative…
Storytelling and Interviewing
If you’ve spent any slice of time searching for a job, you’ve probably experienced this. At some point in a typical job interview, often right at the top, your interviewer will say, “tell me about yourself.” Technically, this isn’t a question, it’s a prompt. It puts you on the spot. It can be intimidating! However, with the right preparation –…
What is CX?
According to design thought-leader John Maeda, Customer Experience, or CX, “is a term that roughly encompasses marketing, product, support, design, and HR (employee experience).” The CX perspective sees every touchpoint in terms of an overall customer journey. CX best practices encourage businesses to differentiate in terms of product, the overall value created for a customer and to communicate through an open,…
Cool Job Perks
Whatever you do for a living, you’ll be spending a good amount of time on it. Thus, it’s important to choose jobs, gigs, and careers that are aligned with your values, your strengths, your goals, as well as with your sense of adventure and fun. When you’re job hunting or looking for a new creative career, simply picking an opportunity…
Perfecting Your Pitch
Whether you are a freelancer who has to pitch a project to a client, or a seasoned team member who is presenting a new concept to internal and external stakeholders, or you’re interviewing for a new job, it’s important to be able to convey your message in a memorable way that connects with your audience. Will Greenblatt, the founder of…
Pet Friendly Work Environments
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi This week is National Pet Week! There are many ways in which you can celebrate and assist our animal friends, companions, and colleagues. Consider a Pet-friendly Workplace Over the years, many American corporate environments have become more casual. This has led to…
Creating Trusted Relationships
Trust….what does the word mean to you and how does it influence your business and personal life? All relationships, whether interacting with a partner, co-worker, vendor, or family member rely on trust and will grow because of it, or falter due to a lack of it. As leaders, it’s important to earn and to give trust. Many people work hard…
Marketing Your Business
We’re all entrepreneurs now. Whether you’re a creative professional or cultivating a side hustle, your path to consistent and satisfying success is to think of yourself as a business. This means that to get the clients and projects you want, you must master the basics of marketing on a budget. When you understand the most important principles of marketing, and…
Reducing Our Footprint at Work
We only have one earth, and all professionals and businesses share a responsibility to do what we can to take care of it. When we become more mindful of our environmental impact and make more efficient use of our resources, it’s good for the soul, good for the planet, and often good for the budget. We can take inspiration from…
Managing a Remote Team
Remote work is on the rise. Taking advantage of the increasingly robust connective and collaborative capabilities of digital technology has been statistically shown to reduce employee stress, improve employee engagement, and save time and money for companies. It just requires an ever-so-slightly modified style of management. Digital nomads will play increasingly important roles in the future of business. If you’re…
The California Job Market
California is home to the world’s fifth-largest economy, worth nearly $3 trillion per year. Much of its economic activity is based around Greater Los Angeles (the entertainment capital of the world) and the San Francisco Bay Area (home base of the tech industry). If you’re building your career in design, technology, or a creative field – or you’re launching or…
Morning Rituals For Success
If you’re a “morning person,” you know that the early hours of the day, between when you wake up and when you begin work, can be some of the most valuable, productive, and fun. And, even if you don’t identify that way, you may be surprised how a few slight changes in your behavior can have a tremendous effect on…
Digital Spring Cleaning
Happy Spring! Today is the first day of spring, the vernal equinox when the sun’s rays shine directly on the equator, and our days begin to get longer. Spring cleaning is in the air, and this year we are focusing not only on de-cluttering our home offices and workstations but also focusing on our digital clutter and noise! Multi-version files,…
Daniel’s Ice Cream Adventure
You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream. But few people are willing to give up a high-profile career in digital marketing in search of the perfect pint. But Daniel did just that, ending his travels working at an ice cream shop in rural Maine. Now he’s back in Los Angeles, looking for work, armed with the knowledge…
International Women’s Day 2019
It is an important time in our history to do everything possible to help forge a more gender-balanced world. Women have come a long way, yet there’s still much more to be achieved. Many larger corporations, as well as local government agencies have diversity programs to work with women-owned companies in order to foster this balance. Some may require a…
Rise of AR & VR in Recruitment
Virtual reality, augmented reality, and other emerging exponential technologies have the potential to change the ways we work together and do business. As they become permanent fixtures in our technological landscape, these new tools will enhance and influence the reality of how managers and recruiters hire, train, and build teams. VR, AR and the like will create exciting possibilities in…
A Guide To Creating Mood Boards
For designers, digital storytellers, project managers, or anyone in the business of creating, mood boards are a useful way to brainstorm, showcase specific design concepts, or communicate the bigger ideas around a project. Never made a mood board? Give it a go! Even if you don’t consider yourself a designer – you may find that honing your ability to organize…
Why We Love What We Do
This February we celebrate 23 years of being Artisan Creative. Twenty-three fabulous years of creating relationships based on trust and teamwork, collaboration, and support. Thank you for being on this journey with us. We couldn’t have done it without you. To celebrate and in recognition of Valentine’s day, we asked our Artisan Creative a.team to share 23 things they love…
14 Apps We Love
Your phone is what you make of it. With the right apps installed, it can be a trusted colleague and collaborator, a tool for boosting your productivity, enhancing your creativity, and making your life more interesting. It’s a good idea to, every so often, go through your apps, delete the ones that don’t spark curiosity, creativity, or productivity and replace…
Using CE to Boost Your CV
Technology is changing the world continuously, and the world of business is changing with it. To seize the best creative professional opportunities, it’s increasingly necessary to adopt the posture of a lifelong learner. You may choose to go back to school to supplement your education or become an avid and engaged student at the school of life. As a creative…
Selecting Your Recruitment Partner
Challenges around staffing, hiring, and human resources are ever-changing. They take time, money, know-how, and people power. Sometimes they can distract from other priorities your team needs to be focusing on. That’s why many businesses work with recruiting partners, outside agents with specific experience in finding, vetting and placing talented job-seekers. As a business decision-maker, you have a range of…
Workplace Trends in 2019
Every day new talent enters the workforce, with new skills, new experiences, and even new expectations. Various industries will become more diverse, others will hang on as long as they can before they disappear. Innovations in technology will impact our careers and our lives. A new year brings new changes. Existing currents will strengthen, fade, or continue. Here are five…