Finding any kind of job is extremely difficult. The ratio of positions to applicants often makes people feel as though they don’t have a chance. Because of this, employers are often looking for very specific skills and standards are at an all-time high. All jobs industries are competitive.
Creative industries, where jobs can be commission based or reliant on going out and finding work yourself, whether you’re a freelance marketer, a copywriter, or a web designer, tend to be even more competitive.In these roles, professionals have to do all they can in order to be noticed; how can they do this?
Online Profiles
Many online organizations offer the opportunity for people to create their own profiles and do with it as they wish. Most people use social networking sites as a tool of promotion and a way of connecting with people. These outlets are often designed for less professional use.
Other online organizations offer profiles that adhere to what people have to offer as professionals, but often don’t cater for those within the more creative professional fields. Some require all professional skills and experiences to be specified by users. This is a helpful technique for employers to explore a person’s work history.
Creative Profiles
For the industries and positions mentioned earlier, such as any professions that are of a more creative nature, businesses, employers, and anyone with the potential to benefit the career of a creative professional often require seeing portfolios of their work.
The importance of having a good creative portfolio is huge. It gives viewers the opportunity to see the best and most influential samples of a person’s work.
What is a Creative Portfolio?
Writers will share a sample of their best articles, reviews, blog posts, and any other published work. Photographers will share their best and most popular photographs. Songwriters will share links to their best songs, and good reviews. Creative Bloq supports that idea with their advice to provide appropriate examples. They also provide advice around selling yourself, demonstrating all-round experience, and including a breadth of work.
Providing information that other people have produced can come in handy too, for example, any positive reviews, and any relevant interviews and features.
The Creative Group gives important tips as to how to create a clean and eye-catching portfolio of work. The guide includes tips on organization, presentation, arrangement, and ensuring you meet your clients’ needs.
Having profiles online is an important way to show potential fans, businesses, and individual employers what people have to offer regarding their skills, talents, experiences and any additional qualities that could be used as a benefit for others.
Having an online profile and portfolio of work is useful for those within, or desiring to get into any of the creative industries, such as music, publishing, photography, and fashion. It is important to be able to share samples of best work, without overdosing people with examples and information they might not need.
Cristen Bagley is an entrepreneur and social media expert who regularly writes about the power of online profiles, and how they will be a large part of the future jobs market.
