Mike carter

On the 5th of November Mike carter from Orchard creative recruitment came into college to talk to us regarding how to get a job, CV's and how to prepare a portfolio. With an average of 456,000 graduates each year there is a lot of competition when looking for a job in design.

Mike felt that it's a good idea to get a head start on making contacts within the industry and preparing CV's and keeping an updated portfolio would be what gets us ahead of other graduates. This advice was particularly helpful.

Mike gave us constructive advice on jobs and how agencies will look for enthusiasm, commitment and organization over anything. He touched on how to compose a good CV making sure that we communicate what we want to say in 3 seconds stating who we are, what we want and why we want it. He spoke about portfolio's and how we should make them relevant to what job we are going for, whether it be for packaging or advertising.

On the whole Mike's lecture was very insightful and extremely helpful.