Character Creative

Morning Everyone,
With everything that’s going on I wanted to post something.
What’s happening in the world right now is beyond mad. For those of us that are freelance / self-employed (like me), it feels like we’re all desperately trying to figure out how we can adapt and work out our roles in this ‘new normal’ we’re faced with.
Obviously, there’s very little recruitment happening at the moment. But whilst arranging interviews and putting jobs offers to people is what pays the bills, it’s just a small part of my normal day-to-day stuff. I spend much more of my time speaking with people about all kinds of work-related stuff – offering my perspective on what changes they can make to get better outcomes.
I’m still here for that. And I’m still really up for speaking to whoever feels like they need a bit of advice or just to be someone you can talk things through with.
We’re looking at a lot of down time for the foreseeable future so if ever there was an opportunity to get your portfolio together and looking sharp, it’s now. Wouldn’t it be great to be ready to hit things hard once we get on the other side of this? I’d love to help you with that.
Leave a comment or send me a PM if you want to book some time in.
I’ll be taking calls from home of course – a home I share with my wife, daughter (5 yr) and son (10wks) – so, whilst I’ll be diving into my ‘office’ as often as possible, there’s likely to be the odd bit of *background* noise so bear with me!

In the meantime, stay safe out there and I hope you can use this time to good effect. As Boris keeps telling us, we’ve all got a job to do here and I think continuing to talk to each other is about just about the most important one there is.
Speak to you soon.
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@ Leeds

So this is pretty cool innit...

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So looking forward to sitting down to watch the Lionesses with my daughter at the weekend! ⚽️⚽️⚽️

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How cool is the new BBC World Cup trail? I know, right!

Go take a look at the making of it here:

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I've been spending the afternoon doing a bit of research and stumbled across this article on '25 names designers should know'.

I'm slightly embarrassed to say I only knew 12 of them. 😳

How many do you know?

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