Professional Practice W1 - Annya Miller

"All about the sizzle not the sausage". Annya Miller

Professional Practice, Section 2! Our second half of professional practise is about making us professionals. Putting ourself out there. More of the less creative side. CV, Cover Letters, LinkedIn Accounts. Showing the world we exist! This is my Personal Statement, my introduction to who I think I am and what I love. The first few sentences are important because they are the throw away or keep lines, who has time to read as A4 piece of paper!

I want to develop my page further, and maybe create a mood board In Photoshop and use it as my cover photo to show a small visual representation of what I like and do.

In todays Lecture we followed tips and how to create a professional CV for the Industry:

1. Start with the easy stuff!

- Email

- Address

- Phone Number (very important)

- Landline (back up, if no signal)

2. Personal Statment

- Line grabbing

- Stand out.

- Describe yourself and your approach to life!

3. Work Experience

- Start with most recent Job; Work backwards.

- Include Internship/Placement work

- Exhibitions Entered/ Awards Won (runners up)

- Full or part time Jobs

4. Skills.

- IT.

- Photoshop

- InDesign

- Illustrator

- Modaris

- Kaledo

- Digitising Board/Digitising patterns.

5. Qualifications

- All gardes. Uni/College/High School (important at BA Level)

- If Gap years taken - expand on why it was taken.

6. EXTRAS

- Driving License

- First Aid

- Lifeguard? (These show and reflex yourself as a person, caring thoughtful, and think of others. Shows you have taken the time out to do training! )

- Liesure (In favour to your career.

7. References

- NEVER write 'available upon request'. No one has time to do your work. Put the details there to hand! Be organised!

- SOUNDBITE. 'mini reference'. A sentence of two of what it was like to work with yourself from an old boss or employee.

TIPS:

- The paper you use can reflex your personalty and yourself as an individual. An Employer is going to remember that silk smooth think white card over the ordinary printer paper right? Shows you take pride and care in your work and are very proud of what you do.

- if you get turned down, don't give up! Go in again a month later and ask again if there are any perditions going still. Shows DETERMINATION.

- NAME and DATE EVERYTHING!

Our task throughout the week is to have a cover letter for our given brand, mine 'Hursh'. As well as a CV. I will show these in next weeks blog.