Three industry professionals gave talks:
Clare Gillen, George at ASDA:
-Important to sell your ideas well
-Start as design assisstant
-First impression is extremely important
-Emails- links or under 1mb -> just a taster, something you're proud of but leave the rest for interview portfolio
-May have different portfolios/CVs
-Good commercial understanding necessary
-Breadth of handwriting useful
Ross, Zeal:
- Ability to learn quickly and keep up to date
- Be confident but beware the ego- confident about skills and diretcion
- Be prepared to be challenged
- Clients can be wrong and so can you
- Portfolio -> quality over quantity, explained and tailored
- May be beneficial to show collab to represent team work
- Intro email can be quite informal and direct
Ross Thompson, Hesco:
- Powers of marketing, first impressions via social media
- Ways to advertise jobs- via social media for social media manager etc
- Show your intent and purpose with work
- Interview starts at reception
- Covering letter essential
- Relevant achievements
- What achievements do you get from your course
- Get feedback
These speakers all had very different ideas on how to approach the interview process, and I found the George one was the least inspiring, as it showed a kind of working as necessity rather than for the love of it, which is not how I want to work as an illustrator.
I thought Ross Thompson's was really useful, as it contained a lot of tips about how to have a successful interview, and gave me things to really focus on at my next interview to help assure it is successful.
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