Tonight's the night! 🤔 What's Common Interest all about? If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. This series of events connects a diverse design crowd, united by inspiration and shared thoughts. Think design leadership, thought-provoking inspiration, culture, vision, independent storytelling, future and creativity. 👉 It's our job to highlight and celebrate the most incredible design talent the world has to offer. So it’s only right that we give those people a platform by hosting our own events. We’re delighted to welcome Dan Witchell from Koto and Mr Bingo to the stage for Common Interest #1 - see you tonight, Manchester! #design #designevent #branding #creativity #storytelling #graphicdesign #community #designcommunity #commoninterest
Craft
Staffing and Recruiting
Manchester, England 31,414 followers
The design recruitment company. We shape creative teams and discover dream jobs.
About us
At Craft, we shape creative teams and discover dream jobs. -- Our clients are world-class design agencies and global creative studios, who we connect with inspiring, team-defining talent. -- It’s not about where you’ve come from, it’s about where you’re going. Whether you're looking to build a team, or thinking about your next move, we help you get there.
- Website
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http://craftagency.co.uk
External link for Craft
- Industry
- Staffing and Recruiting
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Manchester, England
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Branding, Design Recruitment, Brand Design, Creative Recruitment, Digital Design, UX, UI, Graphic Design, Design Management, Account Management, Client Services Recruitment, and Digital Project Management
Locations
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Primary
Aytoun Street
5 Piccadilly Place
Manchester, England, GB
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The Tetley,
Hunslet Rd,
Leeds, LS10 1JQ, GB
Employees at Craft
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Dan Crowder
Managing Director at Craft | We help the world's most ambitious creative businesses grow.
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jesus Silva Romero
Project Manager en Craft
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Daisy Crowder
Brand & Marketing Director @ Craft | We help the world's most ambitious creative businesses grow
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Jess Parker
Director at Craft Agency | We help the world's most ambitious businesses grow
Updates
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How can you innovate the shape of your design team? In the week of their Innovation Festival, Craft Founder Dan features in Fast Company about how to strategically refresh your team with freelance talent. Continuous movement is healthy, and doesn’t need to interfere with staff retention if you use freelancers to boost your business. The benefits of a flexible team are countless, allowing you to reset your team composition as priorities and projects change at pace. ⏩ With 1.5 billion freelancers active right now, it’s something you need to consider for the future of your business. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eTfEn_nr #freelance #designstudio #freelancers #designtalent #designrecruitment #studio #designbusiness
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Have you ever been told you’re too old to ‘get it’, or had your opinion dismissed for being too young? Our latest newsletter shines a light on ageism in the design industry. A core component of a well-rounded business is a diverse team, but one attribute that’s often overlooked is age. We could talk about this topic for days, but we’ve highlighted some pointy actions to implement in your studio right away. 👉 Revisit your benefits package to make sure it’s suitable for different life stages: does your retirement package stand up to your new parent perks? 👉 Train your whole team. Offer the same training and development opportunities to everybody in the same role. Recruiting new skills makes sense, but make sure you don’t leave experienced employees behind. 👉 Offer fairly paid internships that encourage entry into the design industry. Great examples include: 🔸 BBC Sounds Lab: https://lnkd.in/edwqyqqv 🔸 Channel 4 Content Creatives: https://lnkd.in/ecn9CiJb 🔸 Kurt Geiger Business by Design Academy: https://lnkd.in/egHKpYhh 👉 Implement Reverse Mentoring. Pairing different generations to mentor one another, encouraging understanding across your business, functional collaboration and skills sharing. A Creative Director has a lot to learn from a Junior Producer, and vice versa. 👉 Include mixed ages of people in your recruitment process. They’ll perceive different traits and measure against different priorities, making for more insightful and valuable interviews. Have you made these moves already? Source of this stat: https://lnkd.in/edMVSrph #ageism #design #designindustry #studio #designstudio #talent
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Crafters doing what Crafters do best: 🤝 Enhancing the design industry by building new connections. Last week was a blast with portfolio review sessions in person and online, for Creative Lives in Progress and Process Events 🤗 Reviewing portfolios is hands-down one of our favourite parts of what we do. Every day we assess the capabilities of designers, strategists, writers, visionaries and creative people the world over. It's a finely tuned skill for our team, that relies on empathy and shared understanding, and we had some wonderful feedback from the free sessions we offered last week. #portfolio #portfolioreview #design #designevent #talent #designrecruitment #recruiter
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One week to go! Our tickets for Common Interest #1 sold out much quicker than we expected! 70% of tickets were purchased by people working in an agency, and the rest went to in-house studios and freelancers. We've certainly found our people 🤗 We're keeping the momentum going; we've already booked incredible speakers for our next London and Manchester events. Dates coming soon. Bring on the interest 🧠 🔥 🏄♀️ #commoninterest #designevent #event
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Love design but don’t want to be a designer? We speak to world-class designers and talented creatives day in, day out. It’s our job to match people with their dream jobs in agencies across the world. If you have a keen eye for creativity, an ambitious nature, and you’re keen to make progress in the design industry, you could be our next Recruiter. 👀 We’re looking for two people at this level: 🔵 Design Recruiter - somebody who pairs talented designers, art directors, digital designers and creative directors with their dream agency roles. 🔵 Client Services Recruiter - matching agencies with expert account managers, project managers, producers, studio managers and account directors. Join a diverse team of talented individuals who love the design scene. Our HQ is in Manchester so we’re looking for somebody who can be in our office at least two days a week. Speak to Dan Crowder or email iwanttowork@craftagency.co.uk.
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What matters to Dan Crowder? Debbie Millman's ongoing project 'What Matters' at Print Magazine gets behind the scenes with artists, designers, and creative leaders. Our Founder Dan gets asked the tricky questions - and one of the answers is, of course, red wine. Find out what really matters to the Founder of Craft >> https://lnkd.in/dA6MtnZv #whatmatters #interview #founder #founderstory #creative #leadership
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👩🎤 Do you know the difference between good design and world-class creativity? 🕺 Do you have an ambitious attitude, a positive personality, and consultative credentials? 🏄♀️ Do you have what it takes to recruit teams that transform studios, define businesses and move categories forward? We’ve got big plans and we’re ambitious - it’s time to grow the Craft team. If you’re a Senior Recruiter with a genuine interest in the design industry, we want to hear from you. Speak to Dan Crowder or email iwanttowork@craftagency.co.uk. #hiring #dreamteam #companygrowth #design #designrecruitment #recruitment #experts #dreamjob #designjobs
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🤔 Where do you see potential? 👀 What does elite design look like? 💡 Who’s who in the design world? The US side of our business is growing, and we’re looking for a seasoned recruiter to join our stateside team. It’s essential that you have a consultative style, ambitious nature, and the ability to identify potential in all that you do. If you’re a Senior Recruiter with a genuine interest in the design industry, we want to hear from you. ➡ Speak to Dan Crowder or email iwanttowork@craftagency.co.uk.
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Last week we launched our brand new benefits package 🎉 It's a big deal for Craft, as we have seriously upped our investment in the team. But it's taken a while to get here, and we like to show behind the scenes... 💡 Our recent internal employee engagement survey told us what people want from their career at Craft, and what sort of benefits would appeal to them. 💡 Our Head of People, the excellent Lorna Saxon, spoke to other businesses and spent a lot of time researching through Great Place To Work UK - so we can benchmark our perks, and see that we're way ahead of peers and competitors. 💡 The Craft team isn't only in the UK - so then it was time for some serious head scratching and problem-solving... 💡 We then took a good look in the mirror: do these benefits truly excite us? Do they serve our current team well, and set us up for the future? Are they worth the investment, management and time to put in place? So there we go: informed by our team, inspired by others, and benchmarked against the best in the business. 💥 Wanna know what the benefits are? To find out, you'll have to work here... so it's a good thing we're hiring >> iwanttowork@craftagency.co.uk #benefits #perks #workperks #dreamteam #holidays #monthlyperks #enhancedparentalleave #extraholiday #nofridayafternoons #simplyhealthplan #flexi500 #techbudget #workfromanywhere #workfromanywherebudget #charitydonations #evenmoreholiday #familymealsonus #areyoustillreading #icanttellyouallofthem #youllhavetoworkheretofindout