• Our first priority is to learn about your business, company culture and long-term objectives.
• We don’t just deal with the here and now. Our client care focuses on a concern for your continuing needs.
• You can rely on our extensive global network to deliver the highest quality of candidate.
• Using sophisticated screening and profiling techniques, we only present people who will excel in the role.

These principles ensure that Your Success is Our Success

Creative and Production

Creative Directors
Design Directors
Designers - All Levels
Heads of Art
Art Directors - All Levels
Copywriters - All Levels
Production - All Levels
Studio Managers
Traffickers
Artworkers - All Levels
Project Managers - All Levels
Freelance

Client Services and Consulting

Managing Directors
Operations Directors
Brand Consultants
Brand Planners
Client Services & Account Handlers - All Levels
Business Developers - All Levels
Heads of Design
Design Managers

The creative industry is competitive and fast-moving. Those working in a creative environment need to be aware of the world around them and the trends and developments emerging which will impact on those they are designing for. It is driven by ideas and the original expression of these and includes some exceptional talent among its members.

RPCushing’s creative client base covers a number of different sectors and disciplines.

For example, you might wish to work in one of the creative agencies, which broadly fall into:

• Design Agencies – often specialising in a particular area of brand creation or communication, whether these are expressed through a visual strategy, through graphics, interiors, structure and product or digitally on the Web;
• Direct Mail, Sales Promotion or Integrated Agencies – working on a variety of campaign-orientated projects, whether this is a piece of direct mail which comes through your letter box, an in-store campaign promoting the latest seasonal offers or a new brand on the market, or a piece or literature or print advertising – or, in the case of “integrated”, a combination of all of these.
• Advertising Agencies – creating the campaigns you might see on TV, on billboards or in the press.

Or you may want to work “client-side” – which means working on the visual communications (or creative) team within a company whose core business lies in another sector or within a professional organisation. These client-side creative teams are often found, for example, in the large law, banking, accounting or consulting firms, or within large retailers, or manufacturing companies.

None of these agencies or client companies confine their creative teams purely to designers, though – depending on your background and skills, you could consider becoming an account handler or project manager, or managing the flow of traffic through a creative studio, or even working on the final artwork to ensure it prints as the designer or art director intended.

Whichever route you are thinking of taking, you will need a relevant academic qualification. For example, a BA or BTEC in graphic design, or perhaps a degree in English for a junior account handling role.

Relevant work experience is always useful, and many creative agencies operate a placement scheme for students during university or college holidays. We’d recommend you try to find a placement before you target a long-term career in the creative sector - a few weeks in a commercial creative environment will show you what it’s really like to work to deadlines, handle a multitude of different projet requirements, and still be able to come up with leading edge creative ideas!

But before you leap into the creative industry because it sounds like fun, do your research! There are a number of useful websites where you can get some information on the different areas within the creative sector, and from there have a look at some of the agencies and other companies involved.

www.mad.co.uk
www.brandrepublic.co.uk
www.dba.org.uk
www.csd.org.uk
www.design-council.org.uk
www.ipa.co.uk
www.isp.org.uk

At RPCushing we recommend the following sites for the latest industry news:

www.macromedia.com
www.studio.adobe.com
www.designweek.co.uk
www.centaur.co.uk
www.chb.com
www.dandad.org
www.britishdesign.co.uk
www.dma.org.uk

www.mad.co.uk
www.brandrepublic.co.uk
www.dba.org.uk
www.csd.org.uk
www.design-council.org.uk
www.ipa.co.uk
www.isp.org.uk