Frankencomp by Sandstorm » graphic design job http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog An insider's view of what goes on at Sandstorm Design. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:31:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Chicago marketing firm feels the turn in the economy http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/chicago-marketing-firm-feels-the-turn-in-the-economy/ http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/chicago-marketing-firm-feels-the-turn-in-the-economy/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:44:40 +0000 Sandy http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/?p=290 Can marketing and design firms in big business cities (like Chicago and New York) be leading indicators for the upswing in the economy? I think so. And here’s my theory. We are getting flooded with a ton of interesting, exciting, and good sized RFPs from a lot of the large and mid-sized businesses in the area. Companies that were holding their budgets close are starting to explore how they ‘may’ want to spend their money Q3 and Q4. Which is so exciting – it almost feels like 2006 – 2007 again!

So we’re not going to get too excited too fast, because we’ve seen RFPs sit and sit, but the fact that they are increasing so rapidly (and all of them needed to be finished yesterday) that I am optimistic for the future, and my friends, and family who are looking for a marketing or design job.

]]> http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/chicago-marketing-firm-feels-the-turn-in-the-economy/feed/ 1 What NOT TO DO when looking for a design job http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/what-not-to-do-when-looking-for-a-design-job/ http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/what-not-to-do-when-looking-for-a-design-job/#comments Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:28:56 +0000 Sandy http://www.sandstormdesign.com/blog/?p=196 DO NOT email attachments of your design work if you are not asked to. This means NO list of 10+ jpegs of your work, no multipage pdf files of your work, and no attachments that are close to 1 meg or more. I got 5 MB worth of attachments from a student designer, and he sent it twice to make sure I got them all. What a job search mistake!

DO NOT email your resume every week. If a company or design firm is interested and has a design job available, they will call you. Sending your resume every week for a month or two will not help you ever.

DO NOT email your resume to every email address you find listed on the company web site. This isn’t a lottery. If a company is interested in accepting resumes or has a design job open, they will generally have an email set aside for it.

DO NOT email your resume without a note or cover letter in the message portion of the email. I won’t ever open an attachment if I am not expecting one, let alone one from a random designer who didn’t take the time to write me a personal message or tell me anything about themselves.

DO NOT call without having an idea what you want to say. We understand you are nervous, and it is tough to make the call, but practice first. You need to sound professional, this is our first impression of you. Also, don’t demand a call back, if you leave a message, leave a time when YOU will call back. Most companies don’t have time to call back designers, let alone take down your phone number, and your name, etc…

DO NOT email a resume that is 1 MB or more. You’ll clog up mailboxes. Better yet, your resume should be 250K or so… bonus points if it’s smaller.

DO NOT call and just leave your name and phone number. You won’t fool most of us into calling you back, and even if you did, we wouldn’t trust you anymore anyway!

DO NOT give up. Your dream design job may only be a resume away.

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