So as per, this week has flown by and somehow I completely forgot yesterday was Sunday, aka blog day. The past week has been a busy one in terms of uni work, had a lot to get done in not enough time. LPD this week called for us be presented with a talk from Dominique Phillips who works for AXA and is on their graduate scheme.
Dominique kindly filled us in on the ins and outs of the graduate scheme process, telling us what we can expect from employees offering these and what they are looking in graduates. Although the likelihood of me going on to do a graduate scheme is very very slim, it was interesting to know what companies actually look for and how the interviews and assessment centre days are ran. It did get me thinking if graduate schemes are a possibility if one wants to go down the graphic design career path so when I got in later that day I decided to make use of my good friend Google. Didn’t really find much evidence to support this idea though so looks like it’s just a case of building up a portfolio, networking, gaining work experience and working your way up from the bottom…
The other task for LPD this week was Goal Setting & Action Planning. This task I am still yet to commence and had to be put on hold until this week just because of the sheer work load I had. I’ve had a little look over it though and it seems simple enough...set some career goals, make sure they are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & Timed) – a term also used within setting marketing objectives, set an action plan for said goals and then do, I guess. Think I’m going to do it in the form of a mind map, seeing as I’m a more visual person, should make it easier and more interesting.
As I’ve mentioned two times already, the past week was crazy with work…mainly developing our group website and working on the group presentation for CIMC as well as writing up a 1,500 word report/rationale on said website which is still in the process of being made (this doesn’t make the task harder). However, I did manage to get to where I wanted to be at the end of the week which left me with the weekend to take a trip up to Leeds.
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| Free from the thoughts of Uni work in the world of art. |
I decided that the weekend was going to be a no work zone and I embarked on a trip to the YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park). Such a beautiful place, made even better by the winter sun…good choice of day to visit the park. It was even better that I thought…this made it even more gutting that I didn’t have my camera to get snap happy with (I like to think that I have a photographic side to me that sometimes gets unleashed) . Instead I had to make do with my camera phone, which did me proud to be fair, but I shall be going on another trip sometime soon with my camera in hand in order to vent some creativity. All in all a productive week has been had, hope this one follows the same path…
…Watch this space. That. Is. All.
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