Hiring Trends: Remote, Tech, and Being Good Humans
By Kristen Harris At Portfolio Creative, Growth is one of our core values; we’re always focused on growth and learning. Each year we learn more about our industry and stay ahead of trends by attending the American Staffing Association’s annual conference, Staffing World. This year’s conference was a bit different–instead of a few thousand people […]
15 Years as a Women’s Small Business Owner, an Interview
Since it is the 15th Anniversary of Portfolio Creative, and it is also Women’s Small Business Month, we wanted to ask our owners some questions. It’s our hope that you find the answers as interesting as we did. Catherine Lang-Cline is President and Kristen Harris is COO of Portfolio Creative and they are both founders […]
Who’s Your Boss? 3 Employment Types for the New Normal
By Kristen Harris Understatement Alert: 2020 has brought plenty of unexpected changes in all areas of life. One area that has changed for many people is work—where we work, how we work, what we work on, and who we work for. If your work has not changed in at least one of these ways yet, […]
A Day in the Life: Q+A with Lara and Alfredo Weeks
Lara and Alfredo, a husband and wife team and co-founders of FRINGE22 Studio have been building their presence as entrepreneurs in the creative industry for the last ten years. They believe in “design for social impact” to be the driving force behind the work they do. Alfredo is a Creative Strategist/Graphic designer from Washington D.C. […]
3 Design Principles to Ace Your Video Interview
By Kristen Harris You’ve been talking to a potential employer or client, are excited about the opportunity, and they’ve asked to schedule an interview. Yippee!! Wait, it’s a video interview? No worries–with a few tips and tricks, you can nail this interview format just as well as in-person. Since the 2020 pandemic started in March, […]
New Leadership Skills for When the Team is Virtual
By Catherine Lang-Cline Since the beginning of time, we have had leaders that are strong, focused, and competitive. Qualities like this became part of a modern-day job description, we even added skills such as: Delegator Problem-solver Resolver of conflicts Organized Motivated While these are all admirable skills for a leader, there may be other skills […]
Making the Jump to Creative Tech
By Catherine Lang-Cline The world around us is evolving and the creative jobs have changed in the last 10+ years. If you are feeling a little lost, obsolete, or not finding the roles you want, you might want to consider creative tech. It turns out that tech is actually an INCREDIBLE field for creative people. […]
It’s National Staffing Employee Week!
By Catherine Lang-Cline According to the American Staffing Association, millions of people find work with staffing companies in the United States each year with 705,800 people last year in Ohio alone. The strongest category for employment is industrial at 41% but the remainder is in categories like; engineering, IT, healthcare, professional services, and more. Most […]
Remote Work: Some People are Never Going Back
By Kristen Harris I recently heard a speaker describe precisely how I’ve been feeling lately: “I don’t work from home; I live at work.” It’s as if we all moved into our offices and never get to go home. And it looks like this is going to last a while, maybe forever for some people. […]
Control What You Can in the New Normal
By Kristen Harris Every year Merriam-Webster announces a Word of the Year. We have a few obvious candidates for 2020: coronavirus, COVID, social distance, mask, pandemic, quarantine. Might I also suggest loneliness, isolation, and lack of control? Sometime in February, we started hearing about this new “coronavirus,” and in March, the whole world shifted. All […]