Now that your turkey coma has (hopefully) worn off, you can focus on finishing the semester off on a strong note. This week, we hook you up with the Weisman grant money application to help you finish a creative...
Broadcast Journalism alumna (’09) and reporter for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lauren Rozyla, spoke to journalism students and provided the following helpful tips on creating a great broadcast reel: Standup Example: A proper and professional demo reel...
Freelancing Toolkit Session: Crafting Contracts For the final Freelancing Tool Kit Session this semester, Cara Dehnert Huffman from the AEMM department presented on Crafting Contracts. This session provided students with a walk-through of typical contract language, to help you...
What are you doing this week? If you’re anything like us, then it’s a mix of learning how to get a job aboard, get a job in journalism, get a job in interactive game design, and then finally topping...
How to Prep for the Non-Profit Career Fair The Non-Profit Career Fair is just a few days away, and we have an impressive list of 50 organizations, all looking for creative talent!Don’t let the word “fair” fool you- students...
Senior Savannah Million talks about the perks of being a volunteer at a local non-profit and how she was able to make the jump from volunteer to paid designer. Savannah works with the with local non-profit organization 826CHI, founded...
Have you ever wanted to start your own business, make a film, or tackle some kind of awesome art project but don’t have the funds? Well say no more. We’ve got you covered with last week’s Freelancing Tool Kit...
Who would have thought that print portfolios would so quickly be eliminated from the advertising vocabulary? Agencies are moving toward the online portfolio, especially for digital agencies. This is what we learned from digital creative agency Digitas’s Mary Lynn...
The Portfolio Center hosted the Rockstar CPA on October 4th as part of our Freelancing Tool Kit Series. Martin Kamenski, CPA proved that while income taxes cannot be avoided, they don’t have to keep you up at night. This...
Last week the Portfolio Center hosted our very first LinkedIn session. We have always talked about its importance here at the Portfolio Center, but last Friday was the inaugural effort to truly begin talking about LinkedIn in the context...