Career Center

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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...

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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...

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Digitas Event Recap: The State of the Ad Industry

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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...

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Rockstar CPA: Taxes for Freelancers and Creative Types

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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...

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LinkedIn 101

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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...

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Job Fair 2012 Recap

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Last week the Portfolio Center and Student Employment hosted the annual fall semester Job Fair. We had a great turnout of employers and students–and we want to thank everyone who came out! (Let us know if you hired a...

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The Non-Profit Career Fair is coming–November 8, 2012. Time to start thinking about checking out some amazing and inspiring organizations that will help you create some meaningful and killer portfolio pieces. Last Year’s Job Fair Attendees: What kinds of...

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Commercial Galleries and Sociability

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Elizabeth Chodos For this first in a series of blogs about the anatomy of the visual art world, I’ll cover some basics about commercial galleries. They’re a good entry point into understanding the overall ecology of how artwork is seen...

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SEED: Planting new paying possibilities for writers and photographers

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Now that I’ve spent time Spool blogging about never writing for free (there has to be some compensation) and the joys (and perils) of freelancing, I thought this would be a great time to talk about one promising possible...

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SxSW 2010 and surviving in a freelance world

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Apologies for being a bit MIA the last couple weeks. I have a good excuse as I was prepping for the annual South By Southwest Music and Media Conference, and then attending it as well.To get a little vibe...

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