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Creating a Great Career
Presented at FITC Toronto 2017 More info at http://fitc.ca/event/to17/ Dave Benton, metajive Overview With a life mission of creating great experiences one of the best ways Dave can help others is by providing guidance on careers. We spend about 1/3 of our lives working so we better get everything we can out of it. Designers are a fortunate group of people who can gain personal satisfaction through craft, and affect greater change in their environments. This talk takes a broad look at creating a “successful” career ranging from happiness and job satisfaction, to charting career trajectory and communicating business goals while navigating client feedback. With design, business and client management advice taken from great design thinkers (Paula Scher, Simon Sinek, Scott Belsky, David Baker and Stefan Sagmeister) Dave will provide an overview of how to be the best at every aspect of crafting your design career. Target Audience Any designer who works for a living Five Things Audience Members Will Learn Achieving the right job fit Crafting your role in an organization Maximizing your long term paycheck How to control the design discussion to create great work Understand how clients perceive value
Creating a Great Career
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- 2. DO YOU KNOW YOURS? YOUR WHYIS THE PURPOSE, CAUSE, OR BELIEF THAT INSPIRES YOU
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- 5. CREATING A GREATCARRER (power of 10 clip 3) WHAT YOUR WORKING ON NOW
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- 9. TO BE EXCELLENTWE CANNOT SIMPLY THINK OR FEEL EXCELLENT WE MUST ACT EXCELLENTLY. ARISTOTLE “SEEK EXCELEN CE
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- 14. MONDAY IS NOTTHE DAY TO BE BACK AT THE GRINDSTONE. MONDAY IS THE DAY TO BE BACK AT YOUR PASSION. IF YOU'RE WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. KICK ASS. EVERY DAY. NICK CAMPBELL, FOUNDER, GREYSCALE GORILLA “
- 15. JOB, CAREER, OR CALLING DOYOU HAVE A FIND JOY
- 16. PEOPLE WITH ACALLING VIEW WORK AS AN END IN ITSELF; THEIR WORK IS FULFILLING… THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GENERALLY MORE LIKELY TO GET AHEAD.SHAWN ACHOR, HARVARD POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR “
- 17. THERE ARE DOCTORS WHOSEE THEIR WORK ONLY AS A JOB, AND JANITORS WHO SEE THEIR WORK AS A CALLING. NICK CAMPBELL, FOUNDER, GREYSCALE GORILLA “
- 18. • FIND JOY LOVETHE PROCESS LAUNCH DAY LAUNCH DAY FIND JOY
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- 23. THIS SHOULD NOTBE LIMITED TO YOUR WORK (AS IN BEING HAPPY WITH YOUR JOB). FINDING JOY IN LIFE MAKES FOR MORE INTERESTING PEOPLE AND MORE INTERESTING PEOPLE MAKE MORE INTERESTING WORK.TONY WEI, VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR DIGITAL PRODUCER, CRAMER-KRASSELT “
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- 26. SHANE MIELKE, ALL AROUNDBAD ASS “Love what you do. If you love what you do you will never work a day in your life. But be careful not to let what you love rule your life. It’s easy to overwork when you’re having fun being creative to the point that you don’t have a real life outside of work.
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- 41. PROVIDE VALUE SET THE AGENDA whenyou decide whats being talked about you control the conversation
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- 50. PROVIDE VALUE MAKE A BUSINESS CASE everyproject has a goal, so as you speak about a project every decision should have a reason relating to that goal.
- 51. PROVIDE VALUE MAKE A BUSINESS CASE everyproject has a goal, so as you speak about a project every decision should have a reason relating to that goal. 🔑
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- 54. CASH IS OXYGENFOR YOUR ORGANIZATION GARY VENERCHUCK, THAT BUSINESS PODCAST GUY “
- 55. • GET THAT🧀 UNDERSTAND YOUR BOSSES BONUS GET THAT 🧀
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- 60. • PROVIDE VALUE TIPNO. 1 Understand how the company is making money or missed opportunities and how you can contribute.
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- 63. FIND JOY SEEK EXCELLENCE PROVIDEVALUE GET THAT 🧀
- 64. SEEK EXCELLENCE PROVIDE VALUE GETTHAT 🧀 FIND JOY
- 65. 🧀 GET THAT SEEK EXCELLENCE PROVIDEVALUE 🧀 FIND JOY
- 66. SEEK EXCELLENCE PROVIDE VALUE GETTHATGET THAT FIND JOY 🧀
- 67. FIND JOY SEEK EXCELLENCE PROVIDEVALUE GET THAT 🧀
- 68. JOE STEWART, PARTNER, DESIGN, WORK& CO “Some advice I wish I had when I was getting started is the idea that this is a slow burn. Design careers are long. There is no hurry. You can be 40 or 50 or 60 and still producing great design work. All my favorite designers didn't get really great until late into their career, so, relax a bit and try to make decisions based on a longer timeline. If you can slow down and not worry so much about that next promotion or title change, or next job. Don't take that job that pays 20% more but you like 50% less. You have time, and the way to get everything you want: good work, good position, good pay, is to build up a consistent track record of putting out great things – and doing it in a way where people like working with you. Three things should be your focus: are you working on the kind of thing you want to be working on, is your output high quality, are you able to do your job in a friendly & ethical way. If you do those three things, in 20 years you'll be solid fucking gold. I know, nobody wants to hear about some long ass timeline like that, but that's what design careers look like, if you're any good – and thats a gift. Vignelli was designing until the day he died – we should all be so lucky. So – slow the fuck down. The current fashion of "sell out as fast as possible, get VC and burn yourself to death, fuck over anyone who gets in the way" is not sustainable, or good for design, or a good life. Take your time. It's much, much, much more valuable to have good experience than a fancy title or a bigger paycheck. You will get those things 10 fold if you take your time and do it right and focus on your craft, and your process.
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