Employability

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE WORKSHOP:

Personal Qualities -

1. Meticulous 2. Ambitious 3. Energetic 4. Creative problem solving 5. Thorough

Myself as a designer -

1. Client Focussed 2. Inclusive 3. Good at creating copy 4. Good at processing and summarising ideas 5. Creating illustrations and symbols

“I aim to use creative solutions to create visual and verbal communication that effectively gets to the heart of the message” EMPLOYABILITY WORKSHOP:

I attended the employability workshop that looked at how confident we were at looking for work and what we would want to know before we started applying for jobs. For me I wanted to know what the benchmark requirements are for most design jobs.

The presentation was really useful and illustrated in depth the sorts of skills most often needed from designers, we followed this up by looking at some current job vacancies and finally went through some forms that help us pin point times in our careers that we have used certain skills and what desirable traits those skills represent.

I found it interesting looking at average pay per area, and looking through the job sites to see what kinds of design jobs are available at the moment.

Finally we looked at reflective writing and good practice for this which was a great refresher for me and has helped me think about reflective writing even for these module files.

As a mature student that has been working as a freelancer for well over 10 years, some of the things covered were things I was already familiar with however it was good to see them in the context of design jobs and I certainly see the value in workshops like these.

The following pages show completed forms that we were asked to fill out, one using the STAR technique to give examples of positive traits, the other about confidence in using set skills.