Inclusive Hiring: Five Tips to Attract More Diverse Applicants for Your Open Role
By Kristen Harris Our firm helps companies hire great talent for their internal marketing and creative teams. After the multiple health and social crises of 2020, it’s no surprise that many of our clients are looking for guidance on how they can build more diverse teams. I recently got an excellent question from a colleague: […]
Onboarding in a Remote World
By Catherine Lang-Cline Portfolio Creative has been finding marketing talent for our clients for over 16 years, so onboarding happens daily for our clients. But in that timeframe, for all of us, onboarding has never been more challenging than it is right now when the world hires and retains remote workers. Luckily, the Society for […]
What’s New? High-Demand and Emerging Digital Marketing Roles
By Kristen Harris As marketing and creative recruiting experts, we help clients find and hire the right marketing talent for their team. Marketing is a rapidly-changing industry, so we’re always looking for which roles are new, emerging, or growing in demand to serve our clients with their future needs. Even needs they might not know […]
A Day in the Life: Q+A with Dylan Menges
Hi, I’m Dylan Menges, the guy who got struck by lightning as a kid. Years later, lightning made its way into the logo for my studio, Menges Design. It’s located at The Fort in South Columbus, close to home in Merion Village where my wife, Janet, and I share a house with our Siamese cat, […]
Is Digital Marketing Creative? The Answer is Yes!
By Catherine Lang-Cline When Kristen Harris and I first started this business, it was entirely placing people in print marketing. Fast forward 16+ years and everything now tips toward digital marketing. What is the difference? Nothing and EVERYTHING! Much like the clients, we work with and the people that we place, we have had to […]
Everyone is Hiring, So Don’t Miss Out.
By Catherine Lang-Cline We recently sent out a survey to our clients, probably a few of you we would like to be clients, and asked about your current hiring plans, regardless of in-office or remote and the results are in: As you can see, people are hiring! Next question, what kind of people are […]
A Day in the Life: Q+A with Jacob Ramey
My name is Jacob WP Ramey, I graduated from Otterbein University in 2012 with a degree in Design Technology with a focus on Lighting Design and Production Management. I am the founder and owner of Platinum TDM, we are experts in live & virtual event technology and media broadcast. Platinum TDM has been in business […]
Digital Marketing on a Hiring Frenzy in 2021
By Kristen Harris It’s no secret that the digital side of marketing has been growing exponentially over the past several years. We were already used to researching a product online, checking out user reviews, comparing prices, and (maybe) placing an order online. In 2020 that “maybe” shifted to “definitely”–we purchased anything and everything we could […]
Digital Marketing Helps Small Businesses Survive and Thrive
By Kristen Harris As a small business, can you compete with the giant, even behemoth, sized companies that dominate the headlines? Yes, you can! According to the SBA’s latest report, there are 31.7 million small businesses in the U.S., employing 60.6 million people or nearly half of all employees. Small businesses generate 44% of U.S. […]
Embracing A “Remote-First” Model
By Catherine Lang-Cline Up until now, business people have failed to embrace working from home. But this pandemic has taught everyone that remote working works. 83% of employers now say the shift to remote work has been successful for their company, compared to 73% in June, according to PwC’s survey about remote work. And BusinessWire […]