Demonstrating and articulating the key talents/skills/knowledge you can bring to the table and why they'd be beneficial to the specific company in question can be so important! Finding a place that really values your specific brand of work is also really helpful. I think my advice though would be to apply to things anyway, and just try to sell the skills you're especially good at. I run my own design business now so I haven't applied for a proper job in years, but I'm sure the requirements are starting to add on and creep up for sure! I'm sure some would be a benefit for sure, but they're just not super necessary for what I do at least. The places I've worked (in a major US city) have been very branding/packaging-focused, and I've never had to use anything other than the first 3 you listed, even with 12+ years in the business. I think it probably depends a ton on where you're looking to work and the type of design you do. Most importantly though when we'd hire juniors we were looking for people who worked hard, who'd ask good questions, who didn't come in thinking they knew everything already (fairly common in our experience haha), who were open to feedback, who cared about what they were doing, and who could think creatively, conceptually, and strategically about design, and not just provide pretty pictures. Just at the end of the day, a senior, design director, or creative director was responsible for their work so they'd provide that oversight. but it's not like every single thing they did was constantly supervised or anything. They were never the last ones to see a file before it was sent to print, or off to the client etc. Though I'd always prefer someone to ask a question then to guess and have someone else need to fix it later on down the line.Īt the agencies I worked at, juniors were part of the design process like everyone else, though their expectations were a bit lower-like if other people were tasked with doing 3 concepts, they'd handle one, or things like that, and they'd generally have someone who'd oversee their work and offer additional support as needed. I'm always happy to answer some trickier software questions (I'm pretty sure I asked 10,000 when I started haha), but they should have the basics down for sure. In my experience (branding & packaging design), I'd expect a junior to have a general working knowledge of illustrator, photoshop, and indesign (though we use indesign less in my line of work). Join our Discord server Design Subreddits LIST Please report any posts which break these rules, to maintain the quality of the subreddit. No Candid / Non-Consenting Explicit / Sensitive ContentĬontact / Engage Moderators Appropriatelyįor full explanation of the rules see here. Shared work must have a comment for context and use the green "Sharing Work" flair.
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