Great creative jobs need great creative folios

If you recognise the importance of a good first impression you’ll want help with your portfolio. Creative jobs can be very competitive. Often it’s about culture fit. But this consideration won’t even happen if your folio doesn’t get across the right desk.

You can get help.

Why have us review your folio?

We have seen it all. We know what our clients want. We know what you need to do to impress them.

There’s also a few tricks to getting it right. We can share with you the best way to curate your work to tick the boxes for the creative jobs.

Quick start to a folio

Before you jump in here’s what you need to get started. Also if you’re not ready for us to help these quick start tips might get you ahead enough to get a creative job.

8-12 items of your best work

Not too many not too few. More than 12 items will take too long. Make it your best work. If you only have 5 awesome pieces. Then it should only have 5 pieces in it. Don’t put filler in there.

Case studies over art

Include credit for others on those projects. Describe the brief, the direction, the outcome and your contribution. If it’s just a picture out of context you would be telling the full story.

The right order

People need to see something good right away or they won’t look at the rest. They are going to remember the last thing they see the most.

Here’s the order; Second best, good, good, good, Third best, good, good, good, The Best.

The right packet

This can be a hard one. A CV as the first page of the folio? A word doc and a PDF? Really it’s whatever they ask for. So make everything. If you’re applying for different roles with slightly different skills or industries make a master folio with everything you’ve done. Then export a PDF of just the relevant stuff for that role.

Printed? Look, more and more people are emailing a PDF then presenting it in person on an iPad. It’s getting more common so it’s fine if that’s what you want to do. But an old school leather bound folio still impresses. It’s worth considering that you’ll need to show more when you get an interview. So if it’s all digital, have a small PDF for email and a larger longer one for presentation. Alternatively have a PDF for application and a lush leather folio of your best work when you interview.

What to do next

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