UCAS

As this year is drawing to a close everyone is looking to what they will be doing next. This is a two year course and at the end I'm awarded with a Foundation Degree in graphic design. I could continue to do another year of studying to top this up to a full honors degree. I've researched using UCAS to see which institution offers this one year top up course. I've found that the closes places are Newcastle College and Sunderland University. After looking further I found that Northumbria University also had this course but I would have to re-do the second year.

After looking into my options I'm going to have a tutorial soon to talk about my options after this course has finished and what my tutors suggest. 

C V

In the first year I created a CV (obviously) but looking back on it lately I have to admit it is bad, like embarrassed to post in online for everyone to see bad. This old CV sat ashamed in an untouched folder on my laptop for some time until enough I decided it was high time that I had a new one. The only problem is that the rubbishness of my old CV was seared into my brain and every time I would sit down and to try to think about creating a new CV I would have cringe worthy flashbacks.

'Okay CV time I know you've done bad in the past but I can get past this, its only a little CV, (remember old CV) oh Jesus, Christ why would you create that your, a graphic designer for god sake!'

So after some procrastination, dawdling and general avoidance I just sat myself down and worked on a new CV. I knew what it would look like style-wise, as I wanted it to be branded alongside my blog, so it would be simple, not many colors, if any and well spaced out. So here are some images of my CV journey.

As you can see I had some problems deciding the layout and then when I did, I would print it out and decide that nope it looked wrong. So I finally have a new CV and this is a skill for which I am now well versed, but I'm not going tot dwell on this for long because if I do I start to see all the things I can change on the final CV. I am predicting that when it comes to me and my CV I'll never be finished and nor should I be.

PPD

As part of the Personal & Professional Development module (this blog basically) I must demonstrate skills and personal qualities that will benefit me in future employment or progression to a higher level of study.

There are quite a few skills I must blog about, such as creating a CV, UCAS applications, interview skills and so forth. In developing these skills I am maximizing my opportunities to be successful on my chosen career path of graphic design.