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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I think those concers are ones that Does the Uni not offer follow up services you can make use of to help hone you for getting the right jobs? Careers counselling, interview practice, CV rewriting, etc.? This kind of thing might just make the difference between getting a job you don't want and working up or getting soemthing closer to what you want to do. [quote] [b]paritycheck said:[/b] Its not like I haven't got any practical knowledge or experience. I have experience but its pretty varied and not highly specialised. My portfolio includes not only my best projects from college but also some freelance work. However when it comes to my freelance experience, most of the proejcts I've done (even the most complex ones) are those that could be easily completed by following a simple tutorial, in short the standard of my freelance work could be considered somewhat mediocre by industry standards. [/quote] To be honest an awful lot of work in the industry is churning stuff out - "we need a layout by close of business tomorrow!!" You won't get much time to boot up DreamWeaver and throw something together. I suppose part of the problem is your expectations - all the really cool and interesting stuff is usually done by people with much more experience while the basic work is handled by the newcomers. Unless you have something knockout in your portfolio you pretty much have to resign yourself to having to knuckle down and do quite a bit of basic work before you are given the fancier contracts. You talk about direction but I think that might have to come with time. At the moment jobs are asking for server-side coding abilities, a talent with graphcis [i]and[/i] multimedia skills so it doesn't sound like you'd have much difficulty getting an entry level posiiton. You might be suprised where the work takes you from there, However, it is worth keeping an eye to the future and you say you want to go into multimedia/cartoons but the bulk of your skills are in the server-side field. On the face of it the answer is "tough" - there are hundrds of graduates trained in those specific areas being pumped out but on a broader and brighter note it needn't be an either/or situation as one of the big growth areas is doing things like connecting Flash to a database and related things so there is nothing to stop you looking into that area. ___________________ Emps [url=http://www.the-emperor.org]The Emperor dot org[/url] \| [url=http://www.justice4pat.com]Justice for Pat Richard[/url] \| FAQs: [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/53/]Emperor[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/40/]Site Reviews[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/394/]Reception Room[/url] [i]if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away![/i] Loading...
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