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Creatively it is the concept of designer Stacey Bendet, who founded the Alice and Olivia women’s clothing logo. Although animated through LinkedIn, Bendet’s purpose is for the new app to serve visual artists who are excluded from LinkedIn’s corporate side.
Bendet evolved creatively after learning that there was no collective database of works, such as LinkedIn, that allowed artists to download their visual and resume portfolios. This has made it more difficult for employers to locate and rent talent.
“The concept of construction, something like this, has been in my head for a long time,” Bendet told Business Insider. “I felt it was something that just didn’t exist in the world, but needed it.”
Creatively, artists have the opportunity to showcase their work, works and interact with other creatives like them. Photographers can be indexed along with architects and videographers along with fashion designers; multiple artists can now be tagged in projects created with more than one person.
It is necessarily LinkedIn with a degree in fine arts.
“We must be the pro network of all artistic communities,” Bendet said.
In early 2019, Bendet met with several app developers, many of whom already had a separate assignment for Alice and Olivia.
The developer organization had planned to open its own progression company, and agreed to embark on Creatively as its first task. But finally, as creatively began to unfold, Bendet hired the organization to paint internally.
After creating the app, Bendet and his team began to raise awareness, which said it was done first from word of mouth. He also partnered with some of the most productive schools for artistic professionals, adding the Academy of Art University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, so that academics can upload their visual portfolios to the site before the workforce officially enters.
In COVID-19’s softness and disastrous effect on the labor market, Bendet and his team have “pivoted the full concept” of Creatively’s release to help students. “We said” accordingly, there may not yet be opportunities to perform tasks for them, but they can find self-employment.” And we can raise awareness about class 2020,” he told Business Insider.
The platform then starts to raise awareness among other corporations, hoping that one of them will eventually host their tasks in the app so that artistic users can start requesting tasks. The platform’s official task control service launch was adopted on July 28, and Bendet says Creatively can already count on HBO skiMS and Kim Kardashian among the corporate directory in rental positions.
The initial plan to launch the platform in June, however, the pandemic hit and unemployment swept the country. Instead, Bendet introduced the first Creatively platform in May, so artists can enjoy what the platform had to offer in terms of networking and portfolio presentation. At this time, Creatively is available to everyone, whether commercial or artistic, but Bendet says he plans to eventually rate corporations for publication on its platform.
And, says Bendet, even with many corporations imposing a hiring freeze, many artists are used to working as freelancers, and many corporations continue to hire for self-employment, which, in addition to eventually opening the door to full-time employment in the future, is also a sign of the direction that is already taking on fashion.
“The work of modern millennials is not like ‘Hey, I’m going to buy a space and live in the same position for 30 years and paint the same task for 20 of the 30 years,’ he said.’ Technology has made us more mobile, and it’s a new way to connect other people with opportunities. Right now, we have this rare opportunity to live and paint from anywhere.”
It was not easy for Bendet to start a business on a pandemic, however, the appointments he developed with the schools accelerated the opportunity to succeed in people.
That’s why Creatively is actively looking to expand its task catalog, hoping to publicize the task opportunities presented on the platform. This has been good news so far, says Bendet, that other people around the world have downloaded their visual resumes and interacting with other creatives like them.
But LinkedIn has a two-decade lead, and Bendet knows Creatively still has a long way to go.
“What Etsy is to small goods, we’ll be for talent,” he said. “We are not a platform for prominent Hollywood directors, we are the platform for everyone who embarks on producing this production around them.