We need to talk about recruitment.
If our industry is going to hire, nurture and retain talent, things need to change. And there’s one place we really need to start.
It’s not the awful ‘hybrid’ role manifestation, where an agency needs to hire two people but decides to treat the job market like a supermarket 2-for-1 and snag a bargain.
And it’s even not the ‘salary bait-and-switch’. “Yes, we
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Mark Crow April 14th, 2020, late afternoon
Love this! And not only do I know and feel this as a new designer, a junior however, I also see a stigma to the age a junior should be. I restrained and changed my career and happy to start at the bottom as I should, to develop and grow but, some junior positions throw in the word ‘young’ which immediately tells me not to apply.