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Finding Graphic Design Jobs in a Competative Market

As designers in the Digital Age, finding work can be difficult because of the huge amount of people who have the talent needed for design jobs. Here you'll learn how to make yourself stand out from the crowd so that you can be one taking advantage of the opportunities that are out there.

Layout Design Jobs

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When you walk into the supermarket or the convenience store, you probably take the magazine rack for granted, don’t you? Even if you don’t go in to grab a magazine for yourself, you just kind of interpret them as part of the atmosphere. But I bet you never sat down to think about the fact that all the magazine pages in every single issue is part of a layout someone designed at some point in time. Somebody was given some photos, pre-written copy and layout software and they put that page together with strategically-placed design elements and specifically-chosen color schemes, fonts and graphics. Considering all the reading material seen in stores, it’s safe to assume magazine layout design and book layout desgin are both in-demand services.

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Junior Graphic Design Jobs

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You might be wondering just what exactly is considered a junior graphic designer. Simply put, a junior graphic designer is an amateur in the world of graphic design. Even if you have some ‘field’ experience under your belt, you’ll still be the rookie if you’re a recent college graduate, and you’ll remain an amateur for about two years. You could be a published artist and still be seen as the artistic layperson. And you can probably guess from the name itself what some sorts of junior graphic design jobs are…the scutwork of the industry, I guess you could say. You’re the one who will be doing logo designs and website layouts for next to nothing to build up your portfolio; the kid stuff of the design world. The work the senior designers point at and make belittling comments about. Junior graphic design entails some mental gymnastic skill, because it will mean bending over backwards for your clients while simultaneously kissing their backsides. Now, if you can do that in real life, forget being a designer and go to work in the adult film industry.

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Writing a Graphic Design Resume

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If you’re aspiring to be a graphic designer, you’re going to need that little thing called a resume if you even want to try and get your foot in the metaphorical professional door. However, not all graphic designer resumes are composed in precisely the same way, and the reason for this is fairly simple: not all designers possess the exact same strengths. So, if you’re just starting out down the HTML-coded, Micron-inked, live-traced path of no return, you should to see to it that your resume highlights and compliments your own personal artistic strengths.

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