Before You Get The Brief: A Field Guide To Launching and Fueling Your Creative Career

By Austin Scott

Ready to get unstuck, break in, and finally thrive in your creative career?
That's where Before You Get the Brief comes in.

This is the creative career guide they don't hand you in school. Whether you're trying to break into advertising, land your first agency role, or figure out how to grow without burning out - this book gives you the quick hit real-world tools to launch with confidence and build a career that actually lasts.

Written with tough love, honest advice, and the kind of perspective you'd get from a big brother in the industry, this field guide breaks down everything you wish someone had told you earlier - like:

How to build a portfolio that stands out (even with no experience)

What to do in your first 90 days on the job so you don't just survive - you grow

Why your creative career isn't linear, and how to play the long game

How to navigate feedback, burnout, ambition, and self-doubt

The tools, templates, and habits used by creatives who stay sharp for the long haul

Whether you're a copywriter, designer, art director, strategist, or creative-curious, this isn't another motivational fluff piece - it's the strategic, tactical, real-talk roadmap to launching and fueling your creative career.

If you're tired of waiting for someone to give you a shot - this book will help you take it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FL73Q1XK
• ISBN13: 9798293182657
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"