July 2015  

  CREATIVELY SPEAKING ABOUT THE LATEST CREATIVE NEWS
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Please join us on Thursday, July 30th for a Reggae Party! We're celebrating our 10 year anniversary in conjunction with AAF AdFun. There will be a live eight piece reggae band, Jamaican food and beer! One Love. Ten Years.
 
Portfolio Creative places exceptional talent in all areas of marketing, design, retail, advertising, digital roles and many other fields that help you achieve creative genius. Call us at 614.839.4897. Depending on the position, we can place talent within days, and sometimes even hours.
 
-The Portfolio Creative Team
Creative Scene 
 
Summer Networking Extravaganza

July 16th
5:30-8:00 pm
Pigskin Brewing Company
81 Mill St., Columbus

Join AMA, PRSA Central Ohio, and IABC Columbus for a joint networking extravaganza!

 

Come relax with us after work - no speaker, just networking and more networking!

$15 price includes two drink tickets and hors d'oeuvres.



Opportunity Knocks 

 

3 Subtle Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Own Business  

  

Catherine Lang-Cline, President 
* Co-Founder


"You work so hard to grow your business, but what if you were simultaneously working against it? It's not as crazy as it seems. Many business owners make the following common mistakes that may be costing more business than you realize."

 

Read the entire article at: http://www.portfoliocreative.com/blog/2015/7/8/3-subtle-ways-you-might-be-sabotaging-your-own-business  

Recruiter Tip 

Recruiter Chelsie Casagrande shares her top interview tips along with one thing to never do in a job interview. Watch here!



Wellness Tip



July #WaterAtWork Challenge. Post a picture on Instagram sharing how you stay hydrated at work for a chance to win your choice of either a Fitbit or two tickets to a local water park in Columbus or Pittsburgh. Hashtag #wateratwork and #portfoliocreative. Winner chosen at random on August 3rd. Good luck! 

Raise Your Game

Facebook is Fantasyland: 5 Tips to Manage Your Online Presence

Kristen Harris, COO 
* Co-Founder
  
"Studies show that users typically underestimate the number of people who actually see their posts. According to a study by Stanford University and Facebook, participants guessed their audience was about 26% of its true size."

 

Executive Search 

Adaptability

by Chris Cochran, Director

Our business allows us to get a close look at why many people are successful at their jobs. We place them in a variety of roles and situations with big corporations, small businesses and all sorts of unique companies in between. There is a constant throughout these organizations that the best people deal with effectively and that's change. The character trait these people consistently demonstrate is that of adaptability.

 

Your job will change - count on it. It's about your reaction to the change that will dictate your success. Candidates that can share their stories about being adaptable in an interview always impress our clients. Once you're an employee, your business will no doubt respond to the market in any number of ways and it's those employees who first accept the change and then work to exceed expectations who will overcome the challenges presented to them.

 

We hear from our clients about why some people don't work out once they start somewhere and they'll tell us that the person "just never caught on." Or, they thought they would be able to succeed because of their past experiences, but that experience "just didn't seem to translate." These poor performers demonstrate an inability to adapt to their changing circumstances.

 

Given our perspective on the workplace and employee behavior, your adaptability is crucial to your success. Those are the people who our clients want to hire and work with everyday.

About Portfolio Creative  

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Founded in 2005, Portfolio Creative is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm. We partner with corporations, retailers, and large creative agencies to help solve creative workforce challenges. We connect our clients to marketing, design, advertising, retail, and digital roles in the markets we serve. With locations in Columbus and Pittsburgh, and a group of clients we support in New York, we're always looking for great creative talent.
 
"Portfolio Creative has always been my go-to source for when we need creative talent. In fact, many of the great people I work with today started as freelance from Portfolio Creative. Great company to partner with for workforce solutions."
~Jenn J. 
Vice President, Creative Services Director
  
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