Hiring a Graphic Designer with excellent skills and
creativity is one of the toughest jobs for a Grpahic design Company. This is the
job where not only skills of the designer are required, but also you are
required to match you mind with the designer. A designer should able to understand
your concept and apply his creativity in that concept. Not every designer is
able to do this! So you have to be careful in designer selection. You company`
s success or failure mainly depend on a good Graphic Designer.
There are some points you should keep in mind always when
hiring a designer:
How to search?
The most important phase of choosing a graphic designer is
choosing a good advertising option. If you are publishing advertise in daily
Magazine, only few of the graphic designers might apply. In contrast, publishing
advertise on a jobs website is one best way. The reason is that the Graphic Designers
are actually computer addicted. They always search on the web to find work.
Now a day another way to search a designer is giving a
sample project on a freelance site. If your project went good with certain
designer you can hire him permanently. This is all up to you that you want to
keep working as a freelancer or want to hire him in your company.
Also if you have your official site that is so popular, you
can make a section of Job into that. Whenever you are required any employee,
simply publish advertise there.
Another way is to contact different universities. But
through this process you cannot find an experienced designer.
What`s Next?
Now there are many people applied for the job. You have got
their CVs. But this is true that people write more in their CVs. So finding
what exactly they can do, you have to call them for an interview. To save your time and resources for the
interview choose only 20% out of CVs. Reject those CVs those have nothing to do
with this job.
Know their Expectation
There are the chances that one you select has much more
expectation. For example you are able to give him 20pounds/hr., while he wants
to take 35pounds/hour. Remember to ask the candidate for his expected salary. Generally
freelancers are less expensive. However, you should keep your budget elastic.
Such as if a person have much experience, he is hard working and eligible for
the job. If he insists for 22pounds/hr., while you were giving 2o, you should
hire such an employee on 22pounds.
Hire Local
Local hiring not just in case of designer, but also in case
of other is helpful to grow up your business. This is noticed that locals can
serve you in much better way. They will be able to work on less salary. In case
of freelance work, local employee will be easy to contact and enquire. In case
of legal matters, it would be easy for you to catch him.
Reference
Asking for the reference of candidate will help to make up
trust. Hiring with reference of those, with whom he has worked will let you
know about the candidate in more authentic way.
Avoid Friend
According to my experience, hiring a friend is not a good
choice. You will not only loss your friendship, but you can also get a huge
loss. A friend expects more from you, while you have to give equal rights to
every employee. So this can bring a clash between you and your friend.
Documents and
Portfolios Requirement
Remember to ask for the original files form candidate. Know
that if there documents are authentic. Also it is a way to know personally
about the candidate. If you have selected almost two candidates and you are
confused to choose one out of them, you should spend some time on their portfolio.
Designer skills can be well exposed in his portfolio. Design
of the portfolio will let you analyse his creativity.
After Hiring
Keep updating yourself (at least in the start of hiring)
about what the designer is doing. Later on, you will not need this. The trust and mind make up will built between
you and your employee.
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