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Any Freelance at all? Thanks for making me aware of this as I didn't realise!

Thank you! I will let my friends know that! I will be working full time but they are carrying on with the sub contract Freelance thing!

Thank you for all of your replies! As it turns out I had an interview the other day and was offered a job today! I initially applied for the wrong job; a marketing job but the company wanted to expand their creative side so have asked if I would work for them! I haven't accepted just yet...

Hi everyone! Carrying on from my last thread, it turns out that those brochures I made did give me some positive response. I am working with a couple of other people from my University course and by accident we have created a sub contract Freelance Design company and have one company who...

Thanks for all of your replies so far! Ok so I am now realising that getting a job may be even harder than I initially thought, but why is this industry so hard to get into? I have friends who are training to be nurses and lawyers, and their Uni courses generally gets them in contact with...

I read all of the thread but I was wondering how she has gotten on since then; whether she found a job and what happened in terms of her old employer. :icon_wink:

Thank you for your reply! I didn't realise that artworker experience didn't count towards other creative agencies! They all gave me their personal business cards with their personal names and numbers; they all live about an hour away from me otherwise I would have gone to deliver my portfolio...

Ok, I think I will give them another week to give them some time before I follow it up! In my cover letter I basically said how I would love to come and chat so I will probably ask if they have been able to find a date when I could come in and talk to them or something. Haha! It was bound to...

Just remember that you are the Designer with the skills to create the overall design... I was talking with a Creative Director from a Branding company and we both agree that the client 'thinks' they know what they want, but at the end of the day you are telling them 'you can have this or...

The General Public love Comic Sans, Designers do not... I think when you are educated in something (anything!) you notice things more; such as the way it's been made, the font chosen, colours chosen, why those choices have been made and essentially whether a design works or not. As well as...

Can't you do a 'Top Up' Degree? My final year of Uni was officially a 'Top Up' year; we had some older people join just for that year. It's very intense and sort of presumes you know a bit about the subject already but it is a very quick way of obtaining a Design Degree! You might be able to...

Thanks for your reply! It's these harsh facts which make me wonder why I tried so hard at University? That time spent making everything look so amazing could have been time researching these companies in advanced I guess! I didn't just find the address of the company and send it; I found...

Hi Laura, Your situation sounds really awful! How has it turned out since you last posted? As mentioned the lack of a contract isn't going to help legal situation, but even so it might be worth going to Citizens Advice since he was the one who didn't want to write up a contract. At the...

Hello! This is another 'I'm a Graduate Graphic Designer... Why can't I find a job?!' thread! So... I'm a Graduate Graphic Designer... Why can't I find a job?! Ok well there's a little bit more to that! I knew that finding a job after University wouldn't be the easiest of tasks, but then I...

So far I have about a month's experience at a web design company and a months experience as an in house designer at a car company. I hope not all companies expect that sort of experience as there is just no way I can achieve that especially unpaid! That said someone from my class got a job...