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LinkedIn Learning

Advance Your Career as a Graphic Designer

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

From the fundamentals of resume writing and honing your interview skills to building and sharing your portfolio, learn skills that will accelerate your career as a graphic designer. Listen closely as successful designers offer sage advice to help you along the way.
  • Create a resume and gain interview skills to land the job you want.
  • Learn how to promote yourself and your work.
  • Acquire insight and inspiration from successful working designers.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: How to Get a Job in Design
-Bonnie Siegler provides answers to designer's common questions about how to land a job. Learn how to write a winning resume, how to present yourself and your work, and more.

Course 2: Managing Your Design Career
-Discover strategies that can help you, as a designer or creative professional, advance within a company, hone in on your next career move, and set yourself up for success.

Course 3: Building an Online Portfolio
-Create a digital portfolio for your artwork, design, or photography. Learn how to build an online portfolio to market your creative services to clients around the globe.

Course 4: LinkedIn for Designers
-Learn how to use LinkedIn to grow your design business. Post your credentials, showcase your work, find jobs, and connect with colleagues and clients.

Course 5: Running a Design Business: Self Promotion
-Learn how to promote your design business. Discover the various ways to use self-promotion, both analog and digital, to stand out in today's competitive marketplace.

Course 6: Relationship Building for Creative Leaders
-Learn how to build new relationships with prospects, as a strategy for developing new business.

Course 7: Good Design Drives Business
-Good design is critical to driving business. Discover how top designers like Sean Adams and Amy Balliett are using design-driven solutions to fuel company success.

Course 8: Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book
-Learn how to make better, smarter, and more strategic staffing and organizational decisions to grow and manage your creative team.

Courses

Taught by

Bonnie Siegler, Diane Domeyer Kock, Jason Fox, John Luu, Sean Adams and Emily Cohen

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