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Job Search Best Practices
The beginning of a new year is a time to try new things, spruce up your perspective, and take stock of the opportunities in front of you. As a creative professional, you can take this cue to get serious about your job hunt. You’ll increase your odds of success when you act mindfully and deliberately and know clearly what you’re…
Visualize Your Year
Our Artisan Creative a.team creates a new vision board every year. What started as a fun team-building project, has grown into a mindset that many of our team members have now introduced to their families and friends to set individual and family goals together. We each work on visualizing and creating our boards over the holidays, and present at our first…
Happy Holidays
Wishing you the very best this holiday season. Thank you for a busy, productive and connected 2018. Here’s to more of the same in 2019. The Artisan Creative a.team
Favorite Books & Shows of 2018
As the year comes to end, we wanted to recap some of the fun shows, movies and books of 2018 that our a.team has enjoyed. We are clearly an eclectic group with a wide array of tastes. Hope some of these resonate with you too! What were some of your favorites? Favorite Books of 2018 How Women Rise by Sally…
Our Top 25 Blogs
We are thrilled to publish our 500th blog today. As we approach the end of the year, we’d like to share some of our a.team’s favorite blogs. These cover a range of topics from self-development and time-management to job search, hiring, and much more. We hope you enjoy this top 25 greatest hits compilation. Adult Learning Styles Find Your Passion…
Define Your Personal Brand
As a creative professional, no matter what projects you pursue, you can create a lot more opportunities for yourself when you establish a clear, concrete, and powerful personal brand. Here are five steps to help you define who you are, what you do, and where you want to go. Get to Know Yourself No matter what work you do,…
Practicing Design Thinking
Whenever dealing with difficult challenges, applying design thinking concepts can achieve interesting results. The ideas, strategies, and methods associated with design thinking are not exclusive to the field of design. They’re continuously being used to tackle crucial issues throughout society, from urban planning, to voter turnout, to climate change. Engineers, educators, and activists all make use of design thinking concepts…
With Gratitude
“Start with gratitude. Then get to work.” –Beth Lapides During this Thanksgiving holiday season, we at Artisan Creative celebrate our clients and talent whom we work with all year. By working with the finest people and organizations, we always find ourselves amazed by the skills of our talent and the openness of our clients that facilitate the making of great…
The Power of Ambiverts
When it comes to styles of socializing, most people aren’t fixed at one extreme pole or the other, at least not all the time. Most of us spend our time somewhere on the spectrum between painful introversion or exuberant extroversion. Some of us shift positions based on the situation, whether we’re wired or tired, the cold number of strangers in…
Find Your Passion
#ArtisanAdvice -Find Your Passion Joni is a self-taught designer with a natural curiosity and gung-ho attitude toward picking up new hobbies and monetizing passions. In several years shehas launched a food blog, a granola company, became a certified holistic health coach, and launched a baked goods and flower collective. We spoke to herto find out how she went from public…
Creepin’ It Real: Scary Job Interviews From Our Recruiters
We’ve all been there. We turn up late to an interview because of that pesky LA traffic. Maybe you meet your interviewer who is looking dashing in a suit and you’re wearing jeans, or worse, shorts. Did you fail to do your research and you’re horrifyingly unprepared to answer questions on the company? Job hunting can be terrifying. We get…
How to Find a Mentor
Finding the right coach or mentor can take your creative or business career to the next level. In work and in life, no matter what stage you may find yourself in, you can always gain tremendous value by seeking guidance, wisdom, and aid from masters, teachers, or anyone with a unique perspective on your field. It’s important to always…
Project Management Software Review
Choosing a new project management software is one of the most significant and impactful management decisions you can make. The right choice can amplify your efforts, help you achieve and exceed your goals, plus give you what you need to work more efficiently, effectively, and fruitfully. If you’re close to making a decision, or you’re just getting started on…
7 Impactful TedTalks
TED Talks are a rich resource for ideas and inspiration. With countless hours of video and curated playlists on nearly any topic of interest, they present a nearly endless buffet for the mind and heart. We highly recommend sampling TED Talks whenever in need of fresh perspectives. Here are a few we find particularly relevant to our goals of career…
Resume Refresh Checklist
Are you starting a new job search? Could your ongoing search use an energy boost? Have trends in your industry shifted? Have you accomplished those professional goals you committed to at the start of this year? If you answered yes to some or all of the above, it could be a good time for you to review your resume to…
Create a Creative Workspace
Living things don’t exist in isolation – we are who we are through complex interactions with our environments. This means building strong relationships with colleagues and coworkers. We can also pay more mindful attention to the details of our physical surroundings. This can help us bring our workspaces into harmony with our projects, our values, and our personalities. Whether you…
New Hire Onboarding Best Practices
Today, creating and maintaining great company culture is top of mind for many firms, and is one of the highest reasons for candidates to select one company over the other. Developing a strong onboarding plan is one way to communicate company culture with new hires and potential candidates. However, some companies mistake orientation with onboarding. While they are clearly linked,…
Employee Ghosting and the Value of Respect
Which one of these do you feel is harder: to be rejected outright, or to be simply ignored? Today, many employers are facing this question almost on a daily basis. In dating and romantic relationships, the practice of one partner ignoring another – not responding to texts and treating all attempts at communication with radio silence – is known as…
Career Advice from a Creative Director
Daniel is a seasoned designer and creative director with over a decade of experience in crafting beautiful design, experiences and product development. He’s worked for the likes of Nike, Google, Adidas and many more brands you’ve most certainly heard of. Inspired by talented artists such as Barry McGee, Mike Kelley and graphic novels (he also publishes his own), Daniel has…
9 Apps to Boost Creativity
As creative professionals, it’s important to be able to generate a steady stream of new ideas. Professional creativity means having a regular creative practice. It asks that you cultivate a life in which creativity can take root. It means thinking playfully even when you may not be in the mood. If you encounter a creative block, you can take a…
Are you a Digital Nomad?
As humans and especially as creative professionals, we must learn to maintain a delicate balance between security and adventure, as our minds and hearts deem appropriate. If you are the sort of person who tilts toward adventure, or you crave a lot more risk in your life and career than you have currently, have you ever considered the life of…
The Power of Mental Representations
As a child, you were an adept and effortless daydreamer, immersing yourself in your imaginary experiences with the dedication and enthusiasm of a film director. The richness of your inner experiences could rival that of real life. The skills associated with making mental representations of imaginary experiences tends to fade with age, and if you deliberately cultivate them, they can…
Turning Your Passion Into a Career
How do you turn your passion into a career? People are often advised to follow their dreams and passions, but let’s face it–turning a passion into a career is easier said than done. In the first blog of our new feature, Artisan Advice, we spoke with Basir, a writer we recently placed at our client’s Texas location. Basir is one…
Personality Assessments and the Hiring Process
“When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative.” – Chris Rock Businesses struggle every day to hire and retain top talent. Making professional matches is as much an art as it is a science, and even the strongest minds in HR, recruiting, and management must sometimes learn from mistakes. In their quest…
Giving and Receiving Constructive Feedback
In order to be constructive, feedback must be mindful, purposeful, well-informed, and well-intentioned. It must also be clearly understood and easy to act upon. The purpose of constructive feedback is not to reward or punish; it is to share valuable information and insights so the entire team will be in a better position to accomplish its goals. Whether you’re giving…