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CVs and interviewsGraphic Design and Illustration


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Your Personal Brand

Market research Product development

Effective packaging


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First glance check


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CV sectionsPersonal details

Career aim/ profile

EducationEmployment

Skills

AchievementsReferences

Emphasise your selling points through your spaceallocation


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Personal details

Name is the heading

Include address, email, telephone Include link to online portfolio

Add social media link

Professional emails only


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Profile/ career aim

Highlight selling points

State your aimEg

Recent graduate in Tourism and French withexperience of work in a busy tourist informationcentre and high level customer care skills, nowseeking to pursue a career in the promotion and

development of local tourism.


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Selling points could be

Qualities

Skills

Degree title

Project work

Work experience

Career aim could focus on:

Who you want to work with

What kind of products you want to produce

How the employer describes themselves


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Were a family of creatives, from theworlds of digital design, branding,

advertising, and marketing. As a team we

work to create solutions that delivertangible results.

http://www.purethoughtdesign.co.uk/
http://www.purethoughtdesign.co.uk/http://www.purethoughtdesign.co.uk/


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Education

Reverse chronological order

Include: dates, where and what you studied,grades?

Consider adding: Project work, modules,other achievements


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Employment

Employment, experience, work experience,voluntary work?

Include: dates, where you worked, job title

Include description of what you did/ skills?

No solid blocks of text Reverse chronological order

Consider having two employment sections?


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Eg English Language Assistant Organised and delivered conversation classes to

groups of students

Utilised a variety of teaching resources, includinga language laboratory

Produced a leaflet for students to help themlocate appropriate online resources to developtheir English

Developed a resourceful, imaginative approach toteaching in order to inspire my students


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Other sections

Skills - List technical skills

Skills - List transferable skills or embed inother sections?

Achievements competitions, attendanceon short courses, anything else

Interests include?

References available on request?


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Interviews


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First glance check

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What will they ask?

Why you haveapplied for the

job?

Tell us about yourcareer ambitions

Please tell me about a timewhen.

Questions about yourportfolio/ your design

approach

Questions about thecompany/ organisation,

sector/ industry

What would you doif..?


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Why have you applied for this job?Eg Kate

Show that you can do the job by giving a

broad overview of your education and workexperience

Showenthusiasm by stating: how the job fitsin with you career plans, why you want towork for that employer in particular etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7J0OMsjOsA&feature=related


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Competency questions

Common skills

Communication and interpersonal skills

Team work, leadership

Time management, planning organisationCommercial awareness

Problem solving, creativity

What skills are necessary for the job youve applied?

Tell me about a time when you successfully pitched a novelidea to an audience and secured their buy in?

Tell me about a time when you worked with other creativesto produce a response to a design brief?


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When answering

Situation

Task

Action

Result


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Sample STAR

Describe a challenging project you haveplanned and taken through to a conclusion


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STARSituation

During my first year at university

Task

I carried out an assignment where I created a

website for a small business. The website had to

be user friendly, all links had to work effectivelyand the website had to be displayed on the

universitys server.


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STARAction

I arranged meetings with the end user to talk about thedesign, colours and layout that he would like, and to

identify the content from his old website that he would liketo retain in the new one. I demonstrated sample designsto help him clarify his ideas. We discussed thecompanys values and how they could be reflected. I alsomet with the university webmaster to find out the web

authoring packages that were compatible with theuniversity website, and decided to use Dreamweaver. Icreated a mock-up of a home page and a suggestednavigation, which I presented to the end user in a secondmeeting.


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STARResult

The end user was impressed with my proposals

and offered me a temporary contract for theSummer vacation to implement the website. Youcan see the website I created onwww.website.co.uk. I developed skills innegotiation and presentation, as well as gainingnew skills in the use of Dreamweaver. I achieveda high grade for the assignment.


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Your portfolio Task/ brief

Action

What did you do from start to finish

Original concepts/ inspirations? Where did they comefrom?

How did you develop them?

How did you select the final concept?

How do the specific features meet the brief?

End result?


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Company/ job knowledge

What do you know about us?

What are we famous for? What sets us apart from our competitors?

What do you think of our branding?

What is the purpose of design? (educate/ inform,improve customer loyalty, improve sales?)


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Preparation

Prepare answer to introductory question

Prep skills stories

Research company and role

Prep yourquestions

Create your portfolio Plan how youll get there/ timings etc


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More support

Careers Advisers Mon Fri, 11 4 in MB

[email protected]

www.wlv.ac.uk/careers (Job seeking skills)

Jobs and events (in particular MBTI 17th

Feb)
mailto:[email protected]://www.wlv.ac.uk/careershttp://www.wlv.ac.uk/careersmailto:[email protected]

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