Breaking into design as a student with
Emma
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About this Session
Are you looking to land your first job, but not sure where to start, how to negotiate, and what pitfalls to avoid? In this session, we will review what connections you can leverage, how to market yourself, and how to make a great first impression.
If you are still at school we can walk through what you need to do during your course to prepare, how to get your college portfolio ready with work that thinks and behaves like client work and how to prep your interviews.
Your mentor
Hello everyone, I've been a design practitioner and experience strategist for 25 years and have led and mentored designers at many agencies and firms including Fjord, Ogilvy and AKQA. I've hired and developed the careers of more than 100 people and coached and mentored over 50 to senior design and studio positions in Service Design, Product Design, UX and UI using a proven career and promotion framework designed to highlight areas of growth and improvement which we work through together. I like to get to know people on a personal level which means we can structure the mentoring to suit your specific challenge and the practical application of it in your environment.
More about me, I like use a range of design methodologies to solve business problems and conceptualise solutions and services to shape, build and launch products for clients across every industry including retail, FMCG, financial services, energy and telecommunications. I focus on cross discipline, collaborative design projects, with specialists in adjacent fields such as technology, IT, marketing, business strategy and sales to deliver measurable results and inherently change customer behaviour. I have judged at digital and advertising award shows including Cannes Lions.
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