You’ve just graduated, or are just about to graduate, from a college or ad school. What now? Right now, there’s little in the way of professional guidance, internships or job prospects.
To help maintain opportunities for graduating students this year, The One Club for Creativity has turned its annual in-person Young Ones Student Portfolio Review into a free global online portfolio review program.
The virtual program will enable graduating students around the world to upload their portfolios at no charge and get feedback from some of the industry’s top creative professionals.
Among those who have agreed to serve as reviewers are 35 members of The One Club’s National and International Boards of Directors, including FCB Global CCO Susan Credle (One Club chairperson), 72andSunny CCO Glenn Cole (vice-chair), McCann Global Creative Chairman Rob Reilly, Goodby Silverstein & Partners CCO/partner Margaret Johnson, Design Army co-founder/CCO Pum Lefebure, Burger King Global CMO Fernando Machado, Apple VP, Marketing Integration Nick Law, Google Director of User Experience Chloe Gottlieb and VP Robert Wong, Dentsu Head of Digital Creative/ECD Yasuharu Sasaki, AlmapBBDO CCO/partner Luis Sanches and others.
The current list of reviews, updated regularly, is here. Creative professionals interested in serving as reviewers can sign up here.
“Graduating seniors have been dealt an unimaginable situation that no one has ever experienced before,” stated Kevin Swanepoel, chief executive officer, The One Club. “After years of hard work, their classes and graduations have been cancelled, they suddenly have no opportunity for one-on-one professional guidance and little prospect of a job or internship. The advertising and design community owes it to these young creatives to step up and help them.
“We should do everything possible to prevent the next generation of creative talent from becoming a lost generation.”
Instead of being limited to students able to attend the in-person portfolio reviews of the past, this year’s online system opens up the review opportunity to students globally.
“Young Ones has always been one of the highlights of Creative Week, where we get to support and celebrate amazing work from students around the world,” Swanepoel stated. “We are committed to continuing that role in any way we can. This new online portfolio review, for the first time featuring dozens of the world’s top creative leaders as reviewers, is one small way to help young creative talent globally when they need it most.”
The online student portfolio program is The One Club’s second new initiative to help the industry during the pandemic. Last week it launched The One Club COVID-19 Jobs Board, a free resource to connect advertising and design creatives around the world with openings at agencies, studios, production companies and brands looking to fill full-time, project, freelance and internship positions.
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