Good creative hiring is all about flexibility and relationships--this was the core of the message gleaned from Wednesday's long-anticipated Coroflot Creative Confab at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco.
The panel discussion at the heart of the 160-attendee event was easily the most boisterous and impassioned of the Confab's four-city tour so far, with panelists Emily Delmont (Google Creative Lab), Steve Johnson (LinkedIn), Kate Gilman (24 Seven) and John Foster (IDEO) bouncing around opinions on networking, creative skill sets, and employee engagement with dizzying speed. Kudos to Coroflot's Carl Alviani, who's deft moderating provided just the right amount of provocation, synthesis, and encouragement to the panel.
A few of the more memorable revelations:
more pics, notes and links after the jump
The morning sessions, new to this installment of the Confab, succeeded in delivering some highly-directed strategies for creative talent searching (from Aquent's Terra Dehnert and Corey O'Brien) and online presence-building (from Coroflot's Carl Alviani).
For many in attendance, though, the Confab was all about the reception: two hours of meeting and connecting with the panelists (the line to meet John Foster lasted until 5:30), the sponsors (including four top creative staffing agencies and several design-driven employers) and especially each other. Owing perhaps to the Bay Area's incredibly dynamic design community, this Confab saw a broader range of attendees than ever before, with interaction, graphic, web, and industrial designers, design and creative directors, and recruitment and HR specialists, who constituted nearly 30% of the crowd.
Video coverage is coming soon, but satisfy your Confab curiosity with Core's super-engaging pre-interviews with the panelists and workshop leaders:
John Foster of IDEO Kate Gilman of 24 Seven Emily Delmont of Google Creative Lab Terra Dehnert and Corey O'Brien of Aquent
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