It’s the perfect time to switch to a career in design. Here’s how

It’s the year of the great career migration. Half of Americans are planning to switch jobs, and you might be one of them. Well, we have good news if you want to get into design. It’s a hot market, because companies ranging from hospitality to e-commerce are still adapting their businesses to a new world after COVID-19. But how do you get a job in design—especially if it’s your first job in the field? Do you just apply and hope for the best? This is a question we posed to Diane Domeyer, executive director at one of the biggest staffing agencies in the world, Robert Half. She oversees hiring in all sorts of creative fields, including design. And with nearly 30 years of experience, she has plenty of practical advice on how to land a job in design. Read our story here, and then go get ’em. — Mark Wilson   It’s the perfect time to switch to a career in design. Here’s how We talk to a design hiring expert with three decades of experience to hear tips on making a career transition.   READ MORE   The rise of ‘blandscaping,’ and why not all green space is created equal This copy-and-paste approach to landscape design is the ecological equivalent of gentrification. And it needs to stop.   READ MORE   Renting clothing is worse for the planet than just throwing it away Brands are trying to convince us that recycling and renting clothes is sustainable. A new study suggests otherwise.   READ MORE   See the world’s most beautiful book covers These books are so beautiful, you won’t even want to open them.   READ MORE     Land art was designed to disappear. This photographer preserved it for the world to see Long before Instagram’s developers were even born, Gianfranco Gorgoni made the abstract concept of land art accessible to audiences around the world.   READ MORE

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