Items Required...
1. An organized Working File. A simple record complied week-by-week… charting progress and development…
2. A Career Route Map: containing...
Topic 1: Explore with visual references what sort of designer/ designer maker or perhaps design related
situation you might see yourself becoming involved with as a career. Using the grid format discussed
and illustrated in the session, place yourself in relation to the X and Y variables. As a more personal
extension of this overview, then develop a SWOT analysis – see the sheet with this entry on
WebLearn- and also the example from the perspective of a junior designer.
Topic 2: As a development from the ‘positioning’ work of Topic1, this next topic represents an opportunity to
build on aspects of this in more detail...So, in order to broaden the picture that relates to your own
individual and specific interest and perspective, try generating research material to record
examples of as many of the following (and other...) areas that emerge as possible... If you are
considering a number of possible avenues, (for example designing and teaching) it would
perhaps be useful to deal with this activity for each area.
· What sort of relevant jobs/ opportunities are actually advertised- with specific examples...
· Where? On the web? Magazines? Journals? Newspapers? Word of mouth? Other locations?
· What (acceptable) geographical locations?
· What detailed job descriptions? Entry requirements? Experience required?
· Applications forms required?
· Salary? Remuneration? Holidays? Perks?
· If to be self- employed who are your direct and specific competitors likely to be?
· How will you get your work? Make contacts? Connect with end-users?
Curriculum Vitae: Building on the presentation material above, there is much detailed information on the web...
However as with Covering Letters the two links below give a very good overview and considerable detailed
information on how to proceed at least to an initial draft level. From the London Met website... search
Curriculum Vitae...
https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/careers/current/csmarket/curriculumvitae.cfm
and also... http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/goodbadCV.htm
Covering Letter: There is a considerable amount of information available on the web about covering letters...
However the two links below give very useful overview and detailed guides from a student perspective... Each of
the links below leads to further material which may be of use...
https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/careers/current/csmarket/covletters.cfm
and... http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/coveringletters.htm
Business Card/ Headed A4/ Personal Profile/ Website: A selection of things that you might also wish to do to
reflect your design credentials. Even if you are unsure about the complexities of web design much can be done
very quickly through http://wordpress.com/
And finally... an A4 Reflective Piece: A single sheet A4 summary of the personal journey over the module. This
might lead from where you started to summarising your intended direction on leaving London Met; what you
intend to do and how you are going to go about it…