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Coroflot Creative Seeds: What do you look for in a designer? : Yang Kim, Creative Director, People Design

By Allan Chochinov - November 15, 2007

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Over at Coroflot's Creative Seeds blog, Yang Kim, Creative Director of People Design, talks about what she looks for in a new hire. We like answer #6:

6. Regarding creative employment, what do you know now that you wished you knew then?
Well, this may sound like a contradiction, but I always thought that a very professional person who interviews well would be the one to hire. But our best hires have been those who did not interview well; the creative people that I've been really impressed with at interview usually don't work out. Figuring that one out is my problem, of course. I have to make sure I'm not being sold entirely by the personality, but can see into the work and the mind of the designer.

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Oh dear, do all the designers forgot how to smile? She scared me with her look. And People design? I wouldn't trust a designer that do not smile.
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