Freelancing seems as popular as ever with our busiest start to a year ever in 2017. Clearly agencies throughout the UK are picking up some really great business and need that flexible resource before they decide to take the plunge and recruit permanent staff. But, what’s the future for this freelancing model and how must …
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Tag Archives: Creative
4 Creative Career Caricatures
4 Creative Career Caricatures It’s one of the best parts of our job to meet with creative professionals and work with them on finding their perfect role. That’s why we love it so much. For over 10 years we’ve been meeting creative talent at all levels and across the whole of the creative spectrum from digital through to print, ATL, TTL and BTL (not to mention being able …
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Trading Pixels For Print – A Trip Down Memory Lane
Trading Pixels For Print – A Trip Down Memory Lane We love all things creative at The Book (as you probably already know) and after some digging through our books from Uni we’ve found some which rekindled that creative excitement. Despite how much we love the digital age – sometimes you have to trade pixels for …
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It’s National Freelancers Day!
Freelancers, the saviours of the marketing agency. Those super-heroes that step in at that critical time. When the project’s fast approaching deadline, you need some creative input, that back end dev just isn’t coming together, the agency needs an extra pair of highly qualified hands to get it all finished. And there they are. The …
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The 5 Best Creative Make-up Ideas For Halloween
As creatives, we look for any excuse to put our brains and skills to work and festivities (Halloween in particular) are the best time to exercise the creative flare inside us all. Halloween, above the trick or treating and scary movies, gives people (although they may not admit it) the personal challenge of, well… being …
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Our Top 7 “Creative” Teams
We’ve been involved in the recruitment of creative teams for over 10 years now. It’s quite an unusual process finding 2 people a job in the same company at the same time. What never fails to amaze us is how close the best creative teams are. They are a partnership in its truest sense. They …
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Leeds Beckett Uni Showcase Their Talent!
Leeds Beckett Creative Technology students showed off their project work last night to fellow students, tutors, families and creative industry peers. The Creative Technologies course includes Computer Animation and Visual Effects, Games Design, Creative Media Technology, Photographic Journalism and Broadcast Media Technologies. And with a real dearth of new talent coming in to the digital …
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The Future’s Bright, The Future’s CODE!
The Future’s Bright, The Future’s CODE! Does your child know there PHP from their .Net? Their Drupal from their Magento? Skip to 2030 and you’re child could be conversing in languages other than GCSE level French and Spanish. Coders in 2015 are a sought after commodity, as we plunge head first into an increasingly digital …
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10 Character Sketches (Using Coffee!)
There are two things a creative recruiter needs. These things are: 1. Coffee. (and lots of it). 2. New and exciting design ideas and sparks of creativity to slack off and look at on lunch. Artist, Maria Aristidou combines both of these things into something magnificent. Maria has worked on a project which sees her …
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11 Minimal Movie Posters- The Quiz!
11 Minimal Movie Posters- The Quiz! As a creative recruiter, we are always browsing our favourite creative and design sites for the coolest and quirkiest new illustrations or pieces of graphic design to share with other creatives we think will appreciate the gesture! On our search for something new we like, we stumbled across an …
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