After completing your bootcamp programs, your next move is to get a job. However, the process of searching for creative jobs can be difficult and even unfruitful in extreme cases. And if you go by Career Karma’s Student Preferences Survey 2021, about 26 percent of bootcamp graduates did not find a job relating to their field.
On the other end of the line, employers are constantly in search of skilled workers. Kat Lonsdorf of the National Public Radio quotes the conundrum accurately in a headline that reads: “Millions Are Out Of A Job. Yet Some Employers Wonder: Why Can’t I Find Workers?”
In a bid to solve this puzzle, Stacey Bendet, the founder and CEO of fashion brand Alice+Olivia, launched Creatively in May 2020 with one clear mission: help creatives find jobs, both full-time and freelance, and get paid for their incredible work.
What Is Creatively?
Creatively is a job platform for the creative world. It is a vast professional network comprising creatives on one side and premier brands on the other. Today, there are over 200,000 creators on the platform with skills that cut across over 400 disciplines including UI/UX, web development, photography, fashion design, graphic design, video editing, animation, illustration, content creators, and many more.
Likewise, the platform hosts over 1,500 brands across different industries and areas: tech and consumer brands, fashion and retail, media and entertainment, marketing and advertising, and beyond. For these businesses, Creatively is a place to recruit full-time and freelance hires, build brand awareness, advertise job listings, and network with a diverse, qualified community.
Creatively is a job platform that connects creatives to potential employers and thousands of like-minded creatives.
Join Creatively today and land your next job.Who Makes Up the Creatively Community?
Creatively is designed to help a wide range of creators and artists—UI/UX designers, content creators, creative strategists, and many more. Some skills and disciplines featured on the platform are:
- Product Designers
- UX/UI Designers
- Technical Designers
- Social Media Producers
- Graphic designer
- Content Creators
- Animators
- Illustrators
- Digital Artists
- Brand Strategists
- Video Editors
- Visual Artists
- Motion Designers
- Photographers
- Videographers
- Creative Directors
- Producers
- Painter
- Writer
- Fashion Stylists
- Editorial Directors, and more.
Why Join Creatively?
Creatively connects creatives to prospective employers and vice versa. It provides free tools for the creatives to display their portfolio and showcase their skills. Brands post jobs or use a recruiter dashboard to get matched automatically to qualified hires for full-time and freelance roles as well as internships.
Creatively offers several other features which attract people to the community, including invoicing and payment features to help creatives get paid faster. Here are some of them.
Free Features Designed to Help Creatives Find Work
Creatively is entirely free for creatives. The iPhone app and website give creators immersive tools to showcase their portfolio; network with collaborators and brands; find work, both full-time and freelance; and get paid same-day for freelance work.
Connect Directly with Clients
Once a job posting is listed, Creatively allows users to connect directly with brands, companies, and clients hiring.
On one side, companies can easily review the creative users’ portfolios, bio, and work experience. Creatively’s recruiter dashboard uses data to match the brands and companies with qualified hires. Creatives can also apply directly to hundreds of full-time, freelance and part-time opportunities, as well as internships, posted on Creatively’s job board.
Creatively also makes it easy for its creative members to collaborate and network with one another. This allows them to get insights and ideas from other people’s experiences and projects, build their professional networks, and get discovered for new opportunities
Upskill with Creatively Community-Building Programs
As part of its mission to help creatives find work, Creatively offers tutorials and skill-building classes for free. The sessions are held virtually each month.
The program, Creatively Classes, features experienced professionals, notable names, and top brands who educate creatives on new industry trends and ways to improve their chances of getting hired.
Get Paid on the Same Day with CreativelyPay
Beyond connecting creatives to job opportunities, Creatively has a payment feature—available for free to eligible members of its community—that helps them to get paid faster than ever. The feature, called CreativelyPay, was developed to help creatives get paid same-day for completed work.
CreativelyPay is a feature born from a partnership between Creatively and fintech company, Orum. You can join the waitlist to be among the first to use CreativelyPay by signing up on Creatively’s iPhone app or website.
Be Part of a Diverse Community
As a team and as a community, Creatively holds diversity in high regard. It spotlights work from creatives of all different racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds to present a truly diverse collective.
Particularly, it gives a voice to members who identify as Black, indigenous, and people of color who are often underserved by the broader creative community. More than two-thirds of the 200,000+ creatives on Creatively identify as BIPOC with an equal percentage identifying as female.
Further, Creatively forms partnerships with organizations to create opportunities for members of underrepresented communities. One of such partnerships is the IMPACT program, which was launched in partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), to help Black and Brown creatives find work.
Get Credits and Retain Rights to Your Work
Unlike other platforms, Creatively gives its members sole ownership and copyright to every asset and project they upload on the platform. That means they have the right to take legal action against anyone or any brand that uses their creative work without prior permission or authorization. Learn more about the terms and conditions for Creatively users here.
Creatively, the Job Platform for Creatives
Creatively operates with a creatives-focused structure, beginning from its mission statement to its features.
Below are Creatively’s core values and beliefs:
- Creativity is an invaluable part of the global economy
- A strong creative community is diverse and inclusive
- Collaboration makes the world a better place
- Creatives should retain rights to their work
Adding to the above, Creatively also stands by the following principles.
No Spec Work Policy
Spec work is any kind of creative work submitted to prospective clients without a prior written agreement on a fair fee. Employers that practice this do so under the guise of testing the quality and skill of the creative.
Creatively frowns at such practices. As it states in its statement of principles, “We believe that asking creatives to do speculative work is exploitative and unethical, and ultimately devalues both creative professionals and the industry as a whole. Members of the Creatively community are trained, practicing professionals, and should be fairly paid for their efforts at all times.”
Zero Tolerance Policy for Harmful Content
Creatively is focused on maintaining safe content for all users. Hence, it prohibits creatives and brands from using the platform to engage in the following activities: graphic violence, abuse or harassment, hate speech, suicide or self-harm, promoting terrorism or violent extremism, sex acts, child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and any content that threatens or glorifies violence.
It also prohibits users from publishing people’s private information without their express permission. If flagged, defaulting accounts may lose their right to use Creatively. Looking at the mission and core values of the platform, it is fair to say that Creatively cares for the creatives.
How to Join Creatively as a Creative
As a creative, signing up with Creatively does not incur any registration fee. All you need is a mobile device or laptop with an Internet connection. To join the platform as a creative, follow the steps below:
- Visit the website, creatively.life, or download the iPhone app
- Select “I’m a Creative”
- Create your account: Input your username, email address, and password into the appropriate fields and tap, “Next, Your Profile”
- Fill in other basic information into the appropriate fields
- Select your favorite disciplines and skills and provide details about your previous work experience
- You’re good to go.
Life at Creatively
Creatively can be described as “LinkedIn for creatives.” With many valuable features, the job platform and creative community allow users to showcase their portfolios through free immersive tools; network with one another and with brands; find jobs, both full-time and freelance; and get paid same-day with CreativelyPay.
The platform equally serves its company partners, using a recruiter dashboard to match them quickly and easily for top talent for full-time and freelance jobs and spotlighting open roles via a robust jobs board on the Creatively app and website.
Moving forward, the platform maintains a clear mission of helping creatives find work and get paid. And if that’s something you’re looking for, join Creatively today to find your next job.
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