Signs of a Happy Designer - A Recruiters Perspective

It may come as a surprise, but here at IC Creative we often speak with designers who are politely, but passionately and vehemently not job hunting. And believe it or not, this is a very nice thing to see.

In the world of recruitment, we receive hundreds of applications and phone calls on a weekly basis from people who are no longer content in their current role. It’s really nice and refreshing when we happen upon someone who is so joyously happy with what they’re doing that they just have to keep us on the phone a little longer to tell us about it - in fact, this makes our job a little bit more enjoyable too!

Signs of a happy designer:

• Wanting to talk for a long time, in detail, about their newest project
• Recommending you check out their company / product and even download it / buy it
• Recommending their friends with similar skill sets who are job hunting
• Waxing lyrical about their new manager and how inspiring they are
• Boasting (modestly, of course) about the new skills they are developing, the training they’ve been on, the events they’ve attended
• Keeping their CVs off the job boards for a while – “just in case something better comes along,” doesn’t even figure
• Being a bit too busy to have returned your call yesterday because they were out with their new work friends
• Basically… when their job just doesn’t seem like work

So next time a recruiter you know from a few months back calls you, let them see how happy you are now. They will genuinely be pleased for you and will wish you the best for the future. And when you say, “I’ll call you when I need you” – they really will take that to heart.

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