For decades, the creative realm has intertwined with businesses through advertising and marketing. Now, nearly every company imaginable across tech, retail, media, marketing, fashion, and beyond is hiring creatives.
In fact, 61 percent of companies across industries say they are hiring more creatives than last year. And 60 percent of those same companies reveal that the competition for creative talent has increased to an all-time high, especially for creatives who have skills associated with digital media, video, and branding.
A statement released by Pamela Coke-Hamilton, UNCTAD’s international trade and commodities director, said: “The creative economy and its industries are strategic sectors that if nurtured can boost competitiveness, productivity, sustainable growth, employment and exports potential.” The creative economy has seen a demand of 30 million jobs worldwide in 2018 and contributed three percent to the global GDP.
Such an increase in the demand for creative professionals in the arts, culture, and commercial space has resulted in a clamor for a job platform that allows brands to discover and hire talent for full-time and freelance jobs. But, unlike other professionals that can summarize their work experience on a simple resume, creatives need to present visual portfolios and benefit from detailing their past collaborations.
Creatively, a fast-growing job platform launched just last year, provides an immersive space where creatives can showcase their portfolios and where hiring managers can use powerful recruiter tools to find the best hires. Read on as we explore how Creatively can boost your workforce and provide an easy hiring experience, freeing hiring managers from navigating personal websites and juggling massive email attachments.
Creatively is an online platform providing creatives the space to showcase their portfolios and equips hiring managers with recruiter tools to find the best hires.
Sign up for Creatively today.The Challenges of Hiring UX and UI Designers
User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers are among the top creative professions in the tech industry. In 2017, a survey by Adobe revealed that 87 percent of hiring managers put UX designers as hiring priorities.
What makes them in-demand?
UX design focuses on creating an interactive experience that fits the behavior of users and is easily accessible. UI design implements a layout that is aesthetically pleasing and successfully reflects the task flows seamlessly. When UX and UI designs are successfully implemented, there is a 200 percent chance of a higher conversion rate and a 9,900 percent return on investment for every dollar spent.
But finding highly qualified UX and UI designers can be difficult on job portals that cater to every discipline. On average, a job seeker uses around seven websites to search for a job. As for the recruiters, over 80 percent depend on LinkedIn and social media to build a pool of candidates. Only two percent of online applicants on job portals reach the interview stage because most do not pass the screening test.
Fortunately, Creatively presents a diverse group of qualified creative professionals.
Why Choose Creatively?
While traditional job platforms serve all types of professionals, Creatively was designed for creatives by creatives. Over 220,000 creatives have joined Creatively, ranging from fashion designers, photographers, and visual artists to motion designers and brand strategists. Brands can also hire tech creatives, including UX and UI designers, animators, digital copywriters, graphic designers, and web designers.
The platform includes a recruiter dashboard that allows brands to discover and hire diverse and qualified talent in media, tech, entertainment, marketing, fashion, retail, branding, event production, and more.
Creatively is committed to nurturing a community that reflects the diversity across the full spectrum of the creative world, in particular Black and Brown creatives who are often underserved.
- According to Creatively, more than 65 percent of the creatives on its job platform identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. About an equal percentage identifies as female.
- Creatively also joined with the Council of Fashion Designers of America to launch IMPACT, a multi-faceted initiative to create opportunities for historically underrepresented and unsupported communities in fashion and beyond.
- Creatively has partnerships with more than 70 top art, design, film, polytechnic schools, and nonprofits that champion and support creatives.
Creatively’s brand members get access to a recruiter dashboard and can post jobs for full-time and freelance roles as well as paid internships.
How Does Creatively Connect Brands to Creatives?
It all starts with becoming a Creatively member.
Upon registration, you will gain access to the recruiter toolset and dashboard, where you can browse through thousands of potential hires by simply searching or posting a job. Based on your job listings, you will get talent recommendations that match the skills and experiences you need. You can also select candidates by location if you are hiring locally or remotely.
Creatively makes it simple to create lists of candidates you’d like to connect with and potentially interview. You can also use the recruiter dashboard to directly message the creatives to learn more about them or schedule the next steps. These are features that are available via premium subscriptions.
Creatively Premium Subscriptions and Features
Brands can post their first job for free on Creatively. Memberships after the free trial start at $350 per month, but Creatively regularly offers discounts for annual plans.
Pro Subscription Package for One Active Job Post
- Price: $350/month or $265/month with annual membership
The Creatively Pro subscription includes one active job listing and one brand recruiter seat along with the ability to post unlimited internships. As a benefit, Creatively helps brands design the company’s brand profile if they’d like to show off branded content or creative marketing efforts.
Enterprise Subscription Package for Three Active Job Posts
- Price: $400/month or $300/month with annual membership
An enterprise subscription is perfect if you have multiple job listings. Aside from having a full suite of recruiter tools, the subscription allows you to have three active job listings and three active recruiter seats. You can also choose to boost or promote one job listing via Creatively’s email newsletter or social media.
Enterprise+ Subscription for Five Active Job Posts
- Price: $600/month or $450/month with annual membership
The Enterprise+ subscription entitles you to five active job listings, five recruiter seats, and access to the full suite of recruiter’s toolset. This subscription plan is great for companies that need multiple hires in different departments. You can also promote job listings via email newsletter and social media to widen your reach.
Creatively Premium Recruiting Services
Creatively goes above and beyond in helping its brand users build their workforce through their premium recruiting services. Here, the brands will be guided by Creatively’s Chief Talent and Development Officer, Jess Weber, in crafting a game plan for hiring creatives.
Creatively Consult
Brands can consult with Jess to identify the roles the brand needs to optimize, refine the responsibilities of each, and vet candidates. Brands will also receive coaching on crafting job descriptions commensurate to the job requirements and the compensations offered.
You can avail of this service starting at $1,500.
Creatively Talent Match
Through Creatively Talent Match, brands who prefer to let Creatively take the reins in hiring can do so. This is helpful if you are hiring for over 10 positions that need in-depth assessment. You can expect Creatively to find and thoroughly pre-screen the candidates to match against your requirements.
The Creative Talent Match service is available at a starting price of $15,000.
Pay Your Creatives Same-Day With CreativelyPay
Creatively launched CreativelyPay, a payment system that benefits creatives and brands. Creatively understands that companies follow procedures when releasing payments that may not work for all hires, especially freelancers.
With CreativelyPay, payments are advanced by Creatively to the creatives, thus removing the net 30 payment terms. The fast delivery of payment results in a hassle-free experience and a higher retention rate for hired talents. You can email pay@creatively.life for more information.
Build Your Team of UX/UI Designers with Creatively
Creatively is trusted by over 1,500 brands, including HBO, SKIMS, The Gap, Tory Burch, Nickelodeon, and Rag & Bone. It has also partnered with renowned art, design, film, and polytechnic schools, like NYU Tisch, SCAD, Parsons, and Pratt. Equip your team with the best creative talents in the market. Check out Creatively’s membership options and sign up today.
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