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Creative Director Reviews
What is it like working as a Creative Director?
May 2016
Creative Director:
Pros: The culture of the company.
Cons: Bottle neck both in my personal career path and the company's business.
March 2016
Expect to work longer hours than others in the company.
Creative Director:
Keep learning and increasing your skills no matter your age or time on the job. Stimulate your creativity often. Schedule time to get up and walk around to get the blood flowing. Sitting at a computer all day long and even through lunch is a bad habit to get into and not conducive to creative thinking or problem solving.
November 2015
Stressful & Fun at the same time.
Creative Director:
Pros: It's a very diverse work, mindful, imaginative and full of new people and experiences at all the time. You really feel you're learning something every day because we need to research a lot to come up with ideas. It's also a kind of curatorship work ant that plases me as I love to choose and find references to share with a team.
Besides technology and internet brought a lot of new elements to our work as communicators and creative people so I feel I can be innovative on a daily basis and that really pleases me as well. I also like to speak to people and motivate teams to put their best on work.
Cons: Beauracracy is required even in creative work so that makes me feel a bit tired sometimes.
Another thing that is a bit disappointing in this position is that I have to deal with people from different areas and sometimes financially oriented clients seem to be a bit resistant to the new and less innovative in decision making.
October 2015
I have a fun time but still sensible.
Creative Director:
Pros: Managing people and doing creative work.
Cons: Poor process management.
August 2015
Level of in-house talent.
Creative Director:
Understand the people you work with as soon as possible: their backgrounds, their education, their drive, their passion, and their goals.
July 2015
Ask for a higher salary to begin with.
Creative Director:
Don't underestimate your value.
June 2015
Beware of politics.
Creative Director:
Every job has an underlying political position. Learn the politics of your position early and use this knowledge to your best advantage. Never burn bridges without sufficient cause. And always keep current in the skill sets your supervised employees use.
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