Why you should employ me!

Personal Development Profile
My self evaluation skills have improved while creating the blogs last year and I am very confident about most tasks I have to take part in because of this. I know my own strengths and weaknesses because of this. Creating this profile I can look back on everything I have achieved so I have evidence of all my skills as a designer. This will also help if I am required to complete time plans in a work environment because I will be able to evaluate my progress.

Attending Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials
Attending lectures improve my listening skills and note taking skills which will be very important in job situations where information cannot afford to be left out. Tutorials have improved my personal skills and help me gain in confidence about the work I have created. They also allow me to give and receive feedback on other peoples work.

Group work, Team Project
The group assignment will allow me to show my team working ability. I hopefully will get some good feedback from my team members which will show potential employers of my ability to work in a team. Working as a team helps you communicate more about course material rather that just talking to colleagues about what you’re having trouble with I have found myself talking about all aspects of the task. This will help when working as part of a team in the design industry because it is always reassuring to know that other people are there to talk to who have been in the same situation.

Oral Presentation
This is one of the things I was nervous about when joining the course at the start of the year but as I have developed my knowledge and participated in a number of Presentations I find I font get as fazed as I used to. This shows the confidence I have gained over the year, both in my own ability and in standing up in front of an audience. This is a very important skill in the design industry as I may be required to show my ideas to people and try to convince them to invest in my product.

Writing essays and forms of academic writing
The essays and reports required on this course always involve a large amount of research before them so this has helped me learn new things. I feel my English has improved as well as the language I use. Using the correct spelling and grammar will can only be a plus point when working in the industry as it will help me when creating HTML code and writing CSS from scratch.

Maths and Statistics
I am able to use programs such as Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets and graphs. Although this is really not what I intend to do as a job it is always a useful skill to have, especially when presenting information to potential clients.

Observations
One of our biggest assignments last year was to gather influential images for our sketch books. This was a good exercise as it gave us time to analyse good and bad design practices. I do take more notice of colour schemes and especially fonts in others peoples design work a lot more after the first year. By doing this I feel good design practice will be imbedded in my brain a lot more quickly which means good ideas will happen sooner and sooner into the idea generation process.

Research
My research and reference skills have improved a great deal over the duration of the course. I have a number of books all about web design that have been very useful and which contain information that will be invaluable to me in the design industry. I am confident about searching the internet for the information I need.

Exams + Revision
I consider myself to be hard working this is why I have always studied hard in exams and will put myself under a certain amount of pressure in order to gain good results. Although we don’t have any exams on this course I still like to maintain the same level of intensity for each assignment. If I am going to achieve merit and distinctions I will have to go above and beyond the assignment criteria this will mean I have so revise each subject so it is second nature to me. This will show I am developing my knowledge and working at a professional standard.

I would like to improve my communication skills and talk more like a web designer. I feel the language I use is still at a baby designer level and this will not impress potential employees. I think half the battle when trying to find the right job is to impresses the interviewer and if I’m not using the correct terminology this may detract their attention from my work.