From Portfolio to Offer
The practical job search guide for designers
A5 paperback and Kindle ebook · 112 pages
The sample: the first 20 pages, with the contents, the introduction and the chapter “Where the jobs are”. PDF.
Looking for creative work is a job in itself, and nobody teaches it. This guide takes designers through the whole search: reading the market, what AI changes and what roles pay, a one-page CV, portfolio case studies that get read, writing to studios, presenting your work in interviews, judging design tasks and setting a freelance day rate.
Every chapter includes practical examples, phrases you can adapt and a checklist. Coming soon as a paperback and Kindle ebook.
Chapters
- Where the jobs are
- Design and AI
- Pay check
- A designer’s CV
- How to write a portfolio case study that gets read
- Remote, hybrid, on-site
- What to put in your first message to a studio
- The portfolio walkthrough
- Design tasks and take-home challenges
- Setting your day rate as a freelance designer
- Putting it together
Templates and worksheets
With the book you get these templates to download, free for readers:
- CV template (Word, PDF)
- Case study worksheet (PDF)
- Day-rate calculator (Excel)
- Application tracker (Excel)
- Invoice template (Excel, PDF sample)
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