How to Get Your First Design Job: Office Hours with Samuel Pires

Samuel Pires is a young graphic designer from Gothenburg, Sweden, seeking his first job at a design company.

We discuss:

• How to get a job at a design agency, fast

• Why work at an agency

• Why you should get an education

• How to make professional friends, fast

• How to display your work effectively as a junior designer

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Resources:

Courses, schools, and communities

• Berghs School of Communication

• Hyper Island

• IT-Högskolan

• Let’s Talk About UX

• Lindsay Marsh’s design courses

• Yrgo

Designers and studios

• Ateljé Altmann

• Identity Works

• Mohammed Yarroum

• Open Purpose

• Pond Design

Tools and platforms

• Are.na

• Behance

• Cargo

• Cosmos

• Dribbble

• Framer

• Midjourney

• Pinterest

• Unsplash

• Webflow

Related episodes

• How to Sell More as a Creative Freelancer

Further reading

• 7 Rules of Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer

• Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t by Jeffrey Pfeffer

• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber