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Ask Anna: How can I avoid coming across as a master of none?

If you specialise in more than one creative discipline, how can you present your work to clients in a way that does justice to all your skills and isn’t confusing? Here our columnist Anna Higgs has some advice for a jack of all trades

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Ask Anna: Any tips on how to meet peers in the industry?

This month our agony aunt Anna Higgs gives a reader advice on how to meet industry peers and where to seek out networking opportunities

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Ask Anna: How can I encourage my team to seek creative growth?

When working in-house, what’s the best way to inspire members of your team? And as a leader, what can you do to fuel people’s desire to learn and grow? Our agony aunt Anna Higgs has some advice

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Ask Anna: How can I make my hobby a full-time job?

For her first advice column of 2019, our resident agony aunt Anna Higgs advises a reader with a passion for short film on how to turn her side hustle into a full-time job

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Ask Anna: How important is data when producing creative?

Data is a popular buzzword throughout the creative industries. But how can it help the creative journey? This is the question posed to CR’s agony aunt, Anna Higgs, in her latest column

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Ask Anna: As a freelancer, how do I know if my ideas suck?

In this month’s column, our agony aunt Anna Higgs suggests ways in which freelancers (and others) can evaluate their own ideas

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Ask Anna: Will my epilepsy affect my chances to be a graphic designer?

In this month’s column, our agony aunt Anna Higgs suggests how a reader’s physical condition may present opportunities to an employer, rather than a challenge

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Ask Anna: As a freelance designer, how do I know what level I’m at?

This month, CR’s agony aunt Anna Higgs helps a freelance designer figure out what position they are at within the industry, and what level or ‘weight’ roles they should apply for

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Ask Anna: How do I switch careers after 20 years?

This month, CR’s agony aunt Anna Higgs helps a reader who wants into move into a new creative area after 20 years in a different field

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Ask Anna: How do I deal with a difficult colleague?

In the latest question for our creative advice column, CR agony aunt Anna Higgs offers suggestions for how to cope with a complicated colleague and a less-than-interested boss.

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Ask Anna: How do I fight the monotony of repetitive creative briefs?

For the first question in our new creative advice column, CR agony aunt Anna Higgs helps a copywriter cope with monotony in the workplace, and offers tips for how to stay creative when dealing with repetitive briefs.