I just did a pre-launch of my latest 2018 portfolio. I’ll be making adjustments and launching fully within the next few days.
Please, any advice, suggestions, or comments are greatly appreciated and will help me develop a better experience online.
I’m currently based in LA but plan to move to London on the contingency of finding sponsorship. I have a place to live already but finding work from the US seems impossible. Any advice or connections there would be invaluable.
Best of luck for finding a job - I’m in pretty much the opposite situation to you and about to move to away from London.
We have some great design jobs boards here that can be a lot more helpful than the generic jobs sites as they cater specifically for designers, here are a couple:
I’m not sure how much experience you have already, but if you don’t have a great deal of industry experience under your belt already (and you’re able to support yourself financially for a while) then you could also try speculative applications for an internship first, as that can be a great way in and is still quite popular in London.
If you filter down from a website such as this you can get a great list of some studios:
Finally, you could look to a creative recruitment agency like Represent (http://www.represent.uk.com/), who helped my friend find his creative job. Or another one that often bugged me on LinkedIn is Cranberry Panda (https://www.cranberrypanda.co.uk/) - I think they work mostly with Digital Designer jobs.
If you are developing sites in Webflow, don’t forget to use your profile page to showcase sites you’ve made, concepts etc, there is a ‘Hire Me’ button you can switch on too…