Whether you’re looking for your next great full-time adventure, a part-time supplement, or great freelance projects, this place called the World Wide Web offers a number of great places to find creative work. Here are the best eight of those places for creative pro job listings.
CreativePro.com Job Board
Naturally CreativePro.com itself has a job board. Powered by the Coroflot Design Employment Network, which also serves HOW, the Art Directors, Club, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others, the CreativePro.com job board is the place to start when looking for that next great gig.
Design Jobs Live
Design Jobs Live is an aggregation portal that brings hundreds of design job listings from dozens of sites together into a single, one-stop, searchable list of open full-time, part-time, and freelance jobs. Full disclosure: I founded Design Jobs Live in 2007 and continue to run it as part of my professional commitment to Inspire, Inform, and Empower Creative Professionals.™
AIGA
The American Institute of Graphic Arts also maintains a design job board, one the organization claims has successfully matched talented candidates with more than 10,000 jobs since 2004. Unique to the AIGA job board is a list of available internships and pro bono opportunities.
Behance
Newly acquired by Adobe and tightly integrated into the Creative Cloud, Behance is arguably one of the best portfolio and showcase sites for creatives. It’s certainly one of the fastest growing. Likewise, its JobList is rapidly expanding.
Aniboom
Specifically aimed at animators, Aniboom is a full-service job board that connects employers with talent. Employers post project and job descriptions, which are reviewed by the Aniboom staff before publication before being opened to bidding. Communication and collaboration all happens directly within the Aniboom Website.
Smashing Jobs
From the popular Web and design site, Smashing Magazine, Smashing Jobs is a robust list of jobs for creatives of many disciplines. One of its best features is the fact that it goes beyond design job listings into creative management, educational openings, and technical positions, all of which can be viewed together or filtered by category.
ODesk
Although ODesk often gets a bad rap as a place to find bottom-dollar cookie cutter design from amateurs masquerading as pros. To a certain extent, that’s true—you’ll find plenty of $10 logo design and $50 Website design bids—but that’s not all there is to ODesk. Savvy clients who know what good design is worth and will actually pay for it also use the site. Thus there are some gem jobs to be found.
Freelancer
Formerly GetAFreelancer.com, Freelancer.com is, like ODesk, often dismissed as the domain of the undercutters. And, like ODesk, that’s largely—but not completely—true. Spend a few minutes with the site and you could find, if not a project to fill the next six months, perhaps six small projects to fill—and pay the bills for—the next month.
This article was last modified on December 13, 2022
This article was first published on November 11, 2013
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