How You Know it’s Time to Hire a Designer
After 5 years in business, Room 214 is finally ready to hire a full time interactive designer. Ever loving the “punch list” – here is my take on how you know the time is right:
- All your subs are too busy to start anything within 2-3 weeks.
- This is my favorite: Your best subs are thinking they’ll leverage the design work they’ve done for you to start a new social media agency
- The few people you have inhouse that can actually do some design don’t have time to do any design.
- Your developers are complaining “there is nobody to design this.”
- Your account managers are asking “who should we give this to design?”
- Each new project signed or in the pipeline seems to have associated design work
- Your list of design-related work is growing
- You are unafraid of a designer running out of things to do (this especially holds true if you get the right one – i.e. one who enjoys a little HTML/CSS front end web development)
- You realize your own brand benefits as somebody is dedicated to visually nurturing it (this should result in better brand representation in presentations, proposals, case studies, articles, print materials, icons, web properties, etc.)
- You understand good people will grow the value of your company, pushing beyond the scope of any given job description.
Feel free to submit comments regarding things you think I should add. I’ll be happy to update this list. Please also refer yourself / all potential applicants you may know of for the J-O-B to http://room214.com/jobs
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