Personal Career Development Material

In the Interactive Media Industry there are many different jobs and roles out there and all are crucial to the business. The jobs themselves have to be earned via use of the skill for instance a company like Nike need a new reworked logo and due to the scale of the company they aren’t going to take on just some kid who knows how to use Photoshop. They will want someone with experience who has worked in the same field before and can show for their work. So rather than just a list of places and jobs they have done on their Curriculum Vitae they are going to have to see examples so photos that they had made for other clients completed and published can be shown and evaluated so the client is sure of who they are hiring and how they will perform. The best means of doing this is to make a Portfolio whether that is a video portfolio or a folder collection of your work.

In many cases the work shall speak for itself but otherwise you shall as expected, attend an interview like any other prospective employee wearing formal dress, shake the client firmly by the hand and above maintain eye contact when speaking. Usually during the interview the client will brief you on what they want you to do for the project for instance if you are a Graphic Designer they would tell you what sort of graphic they are after and the look, feel and features of it, or if you are a Web Designer the pages, structure and content that is to be featured. Usually you can suggest own ideas in an informal manner but once contracted you are available for that job in hand down to the last client specification.