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Invitation to the Open Days 2011
Teachers and students from Berlin Weissensee School of Art invite you to take part at the open days which take place this year at Saturday and Sunday July, 16th and 17th from 12 to 8pm. Presented will be diploma and student works from the study term 2010/2011 of the departments sculpture, theatre design, painting, fashion design, industrial design, space strategies, textile and surface design, visual communication and artistic basics.
Address: Berlin Weissensee School of Art, Buehringstrasse 12, 13086 Berlin
Why creatives should always be curious
The relatively high job fluctuation is a well known idiosyncrasy of the creative industries, and we of course experience that first hand almost ever day in our recruitment work. While most people in other industries change jobs every 4-6 years, the average in the communication Industry is more like 2-3 years. The reasons for this are certainly various – a low tolerance amongst creative people for repetition and routine; the stress of the industry taking its toll; people just looking for a new challenge… I would take the last point even further: it’s not just a new challenge that we need regularly, but also our curiosity needs food to feed off and our desire to learn is almost unquenchable. In interviews and in selecting candidates for jobs, we at Designerdock don’t just try to find people who have the right experience for a certain position. We also consider whether the position will help our candidates develop their skill set and further their careers. In essence that means that there should be something to learn in the new job. It might be soft skills, software skills, new responsibilities, new media… Often, when faced with the choice of a new job with more money (but the same old routine) or a new job in new territory, many candidates choose the later, which we support whole-heartedly.
THE THIRD WAY (Part 4)
Marketing on a shoe-string budget
The previous installments of this blog series have discussed deciding to start your own business and finding the right business idea which utilises your interests and skills while at the same time not requiring huge start-up costs.
A good idea is one important element when you are starting up a business, but without a marketing concept most new companies are doomed. If you come from the communications industry you know how many millions big brands pump into advertsing and marketing each year. Most of us have to start with a very small budget, especially if we don’t want to get into debt or give up a large part of the ownership to investors.
