Graphic Design: How to Get Hired as a Graphic Designer
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- • Graphic Design: How to... Graphic Design: How to Get Hired as a Graphic Designer. Many graphic designers on this channel have asked "How to become a graphic designer" or "how to get a graphic design job"?
While I've answered this to varying degrees in other videos, I decided to address it in depth as much as possible because many of you have mentioned in the comments that you are having trouble getting hired. Hopefully the advice in this video will help you get a graphic design job, and help you understand what employers are looking for in a graphic designer.
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When I first found this, I thought it was just gonna be another joe blow video. However after watching I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to create such a valuable resource for new designers. I will be recommending to all of my friends and graphics courses!!
roberto is a great channel!
I have a question about attempting to do design for local businesses that have poor visual communication or lacking representation of their visual identities. Is it wise to create small amounts of demo work for them (Things that aren't going to have a huge impact if they just take them for free) and offer further services at my hourly rate if they express interest in my work?
Hello thank you for making great videos. I do have a question. I submit my resume as a PDF file and someone mentioned me that some companies use ATS (applicant tracking system) what would be the best way to apply to jobs successfully as a graphic designer? would appreciate your direction thank you and Im thankful for your channel
Thanks so much for sharing. I wish I knew this before I graduated years ago. Now it's even more of a challenge to get back into the industry. Sad that there was no information like this provided from the instructors.
+Tiffany Siu (Raya) Yeah, I've been passing on those painful lessons...
This was beyond helpful Roberto. Thanks so much for this video! I really like how you talked about things from the hiring point of view as well. I feel like that often gets ignored but it definitely helps putting things in perspective.
Purplestars1986 No problem I think that it is something that definitely needed to be addressed for that reason.
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I'll be graduating next year from college, I'm excited and nervous at the same time because of this real world thing
SuperLewiboy It can be exciting and terrifying!
congrats... l see this is 7 yrs later & was wondering how things are going these days?
As a young(17), may we say (intermediate) Graphic Designer, for me it is also hard to branch out and take the initiative to contact strange people and graphic organizations to start advancing in the field. my question to you is, do you have any tips on how to overcome this?
(And do please refrain from using, Confidence is key)
The add today was 90 minutes. Didn't even know that was possible
So how do we gain client work for our portfolios?
I really do enjoy your videos. We will have to have a chat one to one. I could really do with some advice. When you're free of course. You did mention a mock interview at the end of the vid.
Thanks A lot, I'm still doing my first year and I think i suck at marketing myself. how do i work on that
Hi . im a graphic designer and animator. unfortunately now im live in iran and its not Comfortable at all ! because of government pressure and ...
moving to newyork is my ultimate dream and i want to ask you do i can get a job ? i think maybe people are not like me because i'm persian. is it true ??
can you make a video of what you make or others make....that would be great if you do.
I found this video very good thanks for the help..currently looking for a job
Another awesome video and thanks for the informative information ...
Thank you, Roberto. This is very helpful.
Hello Roberto Blake dear, I have total understood clearly. Im graphic designer and want to work job..
I know it sounds stupid but does anyone know where I could do jobs for free? :)
Angus Dolan There is no shortage of people looking for free work, start with non-profits, charities and local businesses.
Thanks !
nice vid, let me ask, when you where talking in the beginning of your show you were talking about not caring about degrees, is it more important to apply your skills and develop a strong portfolio, or to finish school? the reason i ask is because i have to pay the last term out of pocket to finish my BA in graphic design, and was wondering if I'm just spinning my wheels trying to pay the school to finish or should i focus on the work itself and start knocking on doors?
This is super helpful. I need to get better at getting freelance jobs. I worked as an in-house designer for a print company, which was great for the resume. Problem is I do not own the rights to the pieces I worked on so I have little recent work for my portfolio.
Well put again. I like your work on graphic design topics.
i am 16 and i recently got an offer to design for firstblood. io my interview will be this Thursday over skype any tips ?
Great tips, thank you.
No problem. Let me know if there is another Graphic Design video you'd like me to cover.
So I just wasted $40,000 on college for nothing...great
Roberto Blake serious inquire, do you design layouts for youtube and websites? If so please let me know what you would charge for each and as a package. Im shopping for a fair deal, and your work will be seen on a upcoming producers page with a platinum artist, and you would also be credited for your work. thank you
Locked Down Hello, please send me a direct email, my contact info is in the about section of my TH-cam channel. yes I do layouts for TH-cam and websites. While I'm flexible with pricing depending on the circumstances, I'm not hurting for exposure in terms of value proposition either. Looking forward to your email.
Thank you Blake for your thoughts and input you are always helpful.
Just wanted to say this video helped me out tremendously in relation to what work I should be presenting in my portfolio. I have been out of design school for over a year now and have been working freelance jobs and have had one 3 month contract as an in house junior designer for a printing company. My goal is to be hired as a permanent in house designer for a design agency but i'm having trouble finding firms who are hiring. Should I just be sending out portfolios to every agency I can find or is there a better approach?
you should be sending out portfolios but also reach out to them on social media, especially LinkedIn
Also try visiting them in person.
This has been the most insightful o f all of the comments about the graphic design business that I've seen after of all of the videos so far. Thanks for the upload.
Knghtgraphix Studios Thanks for watching!
I've been watching your videos for a while and as someone who is studying a degree through a correspondence course with few people to guide me, I'm really finding this useful, thank you!
Glad it helped, that is why I do this! Let me know if there is a video you need me to cover.
I'm only 14 years old and you inspired me to keep getting better at designing. You make my future exciting. Thank you.
and now you're 20
hows life bro
On the part about not getting a job straight out of college because you have no experience with clients how am I able to get the opportunities and experience while still in college?
allegiant347 by freelancing and getting your own clients, doing jobs on freelance websites, competing in competitions and doing internships or apprenticeships.
Amazing video but can you do like an online portfolio
lf l do jobs for people for free is that considered experience?
Hey there, I am 17 and am hoping to leave high school and study for at least a bachelors in graphic design. You may not know my initial amount of talent or knowledge, and I don't have a way to present that, but I've always been drawing. I am taking digital art in high school and think that I have a very conceptual mind and a good start in my visuals, but the question is, from where I am, do you think that by the time I get a bachelors degree, if I'd be ready for a career in graphic design? Other factors like dealing with stress and my mentality should come with growth and time, but I still have my doubts on my own work as of now, despite the amount of knowledge that have yet to be welcomed to my brain.
if you don't think you're good enough a degree is not going to tell you that you are. the worst thing a young person can do is wait for someone's permission to start their career and believe they can be successful.
Roberto Blake thanks for that insight.
I have another question (sorry for bombarding you, I'm just real set on doing this)
I think I didn't phrase my question right. between the time I have this very second, to the moment I earn my bachelors degree, does that seem like enough time to build my visual style and gather experience doing free freelance work? I feel like I need to grow a lot more, is what I meant, not like "can I do graphic design? Oh golly I don't think I'm capable" it's more of a "how much better can I possibly get if I use every second toward this goal?"
Again, I'm sorry for the long questions but it feels awesome to reach out to someone that's in the field. Also, is it any good to be adobe certified because I was able to get a certificate through school (and can a 17 year old can do free work for legit clients and not family and friends I dunno who'd hire me, but I really want to start as soon as possible)
ChildishGuru The time you put in will always pay off in terms of increasing your ability to get better. Adobe Certified only really helps if you plan to teach or write for magazines.
Roberto Blake Thanks for putting the time in to respond to me, best of luck to you!
Great tips, thanks :)
Where would the list of client references be placed? In the resume or would you make a note with each featured piece in your portfolio? Also if I had a clients work in my portfolio wouldn't I need their permission to showcases it and have their name and number?
You don't need a clients' permission to showcase their work in your portfolio due to the DMCA, and you don't need to put a client list on your resume that is where you list it via "Experience" or "Work History" you can also reference them in the context of the text blurbs in your resume. Take look at my How to Design Your Resume video for specifics on that. As for the Portfolio stuff I have about 6-8 videos about portfolios and I walk through the Design of my own and how you call out who you did work for etc. So that will give you more context and information than I can give in a reply here if you check out those videos in the Graphic Design playlist on my channel. If you Go to my channel home page the Graphic Design playlist is the first featured playlist there and you can find the videos I mentioned.
Great, thank you. I'll take a look at the other videos.
Great video Roberto, thanks for sharing with us. I'm in the process of finding a job out there. I have a couple of question: 1st question is about self-promo/leave behind, is there's any tips that you can give us about leaving a great leave behind? 2nd question: this is about portfolio, do companies look for digital portfolio or do they look for printed portfolio, like say if you go to an interview, do they want us to bring a digital portfolio or do they care about printed portfolio?
This is awesome Roberto. Thanks you for share your experience! It would be awesome if you can help me with mock interview, practising. I just graduated the end of 2016 and struggle with finding a job, moreover, english is not my first language. I'm so down now...
Hello Robert,I wanted to ask about what kind of questions will the interviewer asked,i am a student .After i graduate from high school i wanted to study in limkokwing university . Im kind of confused what job can i do after i get my degree in graphic design?
+Rebecca Wen Shuen Reference some of my additional videos on this in the Graphic Design playlist. I cover it better than I can in a comment.
Great video!
Roberto, I graduated with a BFA in design and no one is responding to me via indeed or Glassdoor or LinkedIn I graduated December 2017 and I already feel like giving up
Change your tactics
Hi. My name is Sruthie Kondamoori. Your videos are very helpful and helps me to be a computer graphics designer in the job world. Thank you for the very helpful advice. I appreciate it.
The best way to get your work out there without any prior work experience is to showcase it on a graphic centric website/forum. Then get people on facebook that are friends to art directors to share the link on their wall feed. I know many artist as young as 19 that get snagged up this way by huge agencies all the time. Just keep posting your artwork daily. Doesn't matter if its just sketches you do on the bus. Art Directors are more impressed with your executing principle than a polished end result. Also don't rush in to any company that welcomes you. Most of them abuse and overwork GDs for free. Get on Linkin and ask employees how the politics are like and what's their morale value working there. Narcissistic bosses are image driven and will prefer to hire workers that won't get all up there about labour laws and unethical treatments. You have been warned.
thnx brother for sharing your knowledge n experience n i'm hoping it will helpful to me tomorrow for a graphic design job......
I mean how to show the interviewer to hire me for work?Because im not good in english:(
I can only catch up little things.Did you mean to show the interviewer some projects and references that designed by ourself?
+Rebecca Wen Shuen If you're not good at English you need to practice because this can impact you. Yes show them work you designed yourself so they can see your creativity.
Thank You!! Now I have it clear!
I will become a graphic designer :)
Great video, but I'm very curious about something. Is it always important to ask clients of what they are looking for before you do work for them?
yea but i want to put also my clientwork on my portfolio even if my client didnt take it...does it counts? i mean....its still my work, and i like it!
+Denis Baručija Yes.
What’s more important: Qualifications or experience?
Hi my name is Damion Dickey and I just want to say that your videos is very insightful and knowledgeable, help my view as a graphic design tremendously. I would like to thank you
gravedi dig Thanks for watching.
No problem.where are you locate at, I would like to meet you man.Honestly man have ever thought about being a mentor.
gravedi dig
Mentorship is something I'm only good at remotely and at scale via a platform because I'm too busy for the one on one time to really be meaningful. I can give advice in videos an in email but I'm too busy executing and doing things to hold people's hand and walk them through something. It's why I didn't become a teacher in tradition education.
I understand, yes but really keep up the good work, and I look forward to the new and knowledgeable videos.
I wish I found this video earlier. Thank you so much!
This is gold. Thank you for sharing.
+whitney minthorn No problem.
I need job
Great advice
Excellent advice for anyone looking to get into the field.
great
thoughts on the art institute online for graphic design
+Travis Poteat Ask people who are going there, also reference my videos about graphic design school.
nice, finally chanel i was looking for a long time.
thanks for the very informative video.
Great information I will put it to use!
Maybe a video on internships?
I think I will, I have mixed feelings about internships and I think that there are some interesting things I can bring to light about them regarding expectations.
Thanks, i was considering an internship and would love your advice and feelings.
In video about how much do GDs make you mention very often that it depends of education, and here you are talking like education is not so important, is it or not, make your mind. You if anyone should be more consistent with information that you broadcast and not confuse people.
Milorad Menjic There's a difference and it's a matter of CONTEXT. Context matters more than being consistent, its one of the first things you have learn in the profession, being consistent is more than often just being lazy if you're not doing it in the proper context.So let me me clarify. In terms of NEGOTIATING SALARY it is important. Employers can use that to haggle you down. If you have a SOLID PORTFOLIO, not having a degree or college education won't keep you from getting an opportunity if you know what you are doing and have good presentation skills to back up that portfolio of work. So again. It's not that I'm being inconsistent and confusing, its about understand the context in which I'm presenting the information when talking about 2 completely different scenarios. People get the wrong information and are more confused when people make blanket statements for the sake of CONSISTENCY or not looking like they are flip flopping.
Roberto Blake Sorry for bad expression, but English is not my native language, but you did get my point, explained it in some way, all I wanted to say is that it can be confusing if someone rally listen what you are saying and I did. I agree it depends on million things but education is important in every way you look at it.
Again sorry for bad English but you understand what I am referring to.
Milorad Menjic not a problem, I'm not upset, I just wanted to clarify. Too often instructors will stick to the same stance without considering the Context, and it has always been a pet peeve of mine.
Awesome - we like it ☺
This is so good
Thank you for your knowledge. I learned a lot from it.If I may say, in the end of the video you mention to have an interview with you....I would love to do that.
+Ksajdi Designs that is only a paid coaching option
+Ksajdi Designs that is only a paid coaching option
great advice!
omg so glad I found your channel!! so helpful thank you!
+Edwina Marion Glad to hear it. Thanks for watching.
can you do trailer on how to develop a freelance client list
@Roberto Blake. Great video and advice. I happen to be a graphic designer and was wondering if you had any advice for places to look into In New York City? Many thanks
Nothing specific, it all comes down to the same thing, identify companies doing work you want to do, put work in your portfolio that shows you can do that, and get in front of them and make a good presentation.
Roberto Blake do you need a college degree for graphic design ?
No
it helps to a certain degree but i will have MR Blake answer this better then me hah
Hello! I'm 13 and I'm wondering how I could start. I really like PhotoShop and am getting very good at it. How could I improved towards the graphic design? Have any suggestions?
Matdrox hey kid, from personal experience, practice physical art more. As a graphic designer and animator I do 80% of all my designing on paper