Creative Labs’ Board Recruitment is rolling and always going on! Members can potentially even join over the summer, as some of our Board Members have. We’ve also recently welcomed a few newcomers onto the team, and we hope this post helps define how you can join the Creative Labs’ team and what our team does.
A board member supports the general operations of Creative Labs. While we do work on cool projects, e.g. web apps, games, redesigns, our board is often working to improve the experience for the general member of Creative Labs. We work on many of these projects internally, and often, they’re for the greater CL community—see Dinner. Some projects include finding sponsors for cloud providers, putting on events such as designathons, or building out kick ass web apps like Agora.
The online application is the first step to becoming a Board Member. For the majority, the application is meant to measure if you have an idea that might make Creative Labs, as a whole and as a community, better. Do you want to improve the organization? Do you see us as creatives? Entrepreneurs? Devs? Designers? What’s your take on who we are and what we aim to do? It’s important to note that factors like major or even portfolio aren’t always important.
Yes, to apply to the design team, you should probably have a couple of graphics up your sleeve. But we take team members of all levels of skill, as long as they show a passion for creativity and a willingness to grow and learn alongside us. At the end of the day, we do a lot of “one week builds” where we learn a technology or process on the spot and scramble to make something wonderful. But we’ve also taken people from other majors (we have an EE major on our marketing/external team) and people who want to start anew in a different area than they’ve previously worked in.
We also hope that through your online application shows us a part of who you are. CL is two things: the cool projects we make and the vibrant people that make up our community. You’ll see below a couple of the things we take into account most when filtering through applicants.
For each team that chooses your online application, you’ll have an interview. These interviews are separate and tailored to the team. The design team might go over your ability to create graphics quickly or your ideas and concepts for a brand. Marketing and external might look out for your copy skills or any ideas you have to grow our community and create interactions and engagement. Projects will look at your ability to work with different groups of people and manage teams and conflict through mediation and scheduling. Developers will evaluate your ideas and technical ability.
Each of these interviews will look at both you as a person and you as whichever position you’ve selected, whether it be designer, developer, marketer, or project manager.
At the end of the day though, we’re all looking for the same thing. We’re looking for the things that matter most.
~vibes~ are king.
Team cohesion is very important to us. The best potential additions to our fam have a willingness to work with others, even in areas you might not be the most skilled in. We juggle a variety of projects constantly, from community management, project management, multiple website designs, and partnership or sponsorship proposals. It’s necessary as a CL team member to value your own and each other’s input on any topic. What matters most is we’re family.
Effort is always rewarded.
Even freshmen can join our team! Some of our board members haven’t been on CL projects or were only accepted to or led a CL project after they became board members.
We have questions that ask about your knowledge of CL on our written app (and of course, we’ll ask similar questions during your interview) and even if you have zero experience in CL, as long as you’ve tried to do your research (via reaching out to CL members, attending general meeting, or even just poking around our site and proposing improvements), you’ll have a better chance at making an impression on our team. What matters most is that you try.
Do it ~for you~
As a team, we build out our products and projects not for the goal of founding some start up in the future and sometimes, not even for our own benefit. We do it for the community and just because we think it might be a cool thing to build out. Sometimes, we’ll have a video game social and a board member will go on a tangent about how much they want to make a puzzle game—see Password. Or, a board member will post a cool AR project their friend made… Inevitably, the gears start spinning and we build something just for the sake of building something. What matters most is we create.
We hope to see your application for the Creative Labs team soon! Every single person has something unique they can bring to the team, and we’d love to get to know anyone who wants to get to know and work with us. Apply here.
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