Summer internship
Once university was completely over (and I moved back home in June 2013) I began applying for jobs to try and secure my future career, but I kept receiving the same feedback from everyone I applied to, 'unfortunately you have been unsuccessful with this application, as you do not have enough experience required for this role'. This seemed to be the common pattern I heard from nearly everyone that actually responded back, which wasn't a large number if I'm honest. However I totally understood and saw their point of view, I'm a graduate who has just completed my degree course and have no real field related experience so why employ me right?! On the other hand my argument for this, was how do I then go about getting the experience, if no ones willing to offer me any experience in the first place, I concluded this will be a vicious cycle until I get that first little bit of experience under my belt, which i was determined to get.
With the amount of rejection emails I had received, I opted to change my approach on how I can get this much needed experience. I then remembered about design internships, one of my university lecturers was discussing with me prior to leaving uni, so I then continued applying for jobs but just solely focused on the internship aspect. I found a number of good ones (paid and unpaid) which I applied to and the response I received was slightly better than that of a full time job. Though again some still said I don't have enough experience (LOL I just had to laugh when I came across those words again). However...
On a better note i had heard back from two employers who were interested in me Chris Minett of Action for Ageing (http://www.actionforageing.com/ )and Christina Banjo of Christina Chi (https://twitter.com/Christina_Chi). I was very grateful at this moment to have even heard back from the pair in the first place, but for them to also arrange an interview filled me with much hype. However before my interview with Chris he asked me to fulfill a brief so I did. I had my interview with Chris and Christina respectively and got offered internships from the two, so the final decision lied with me. In the end I went with my gut and chose the Web and Graphic Design internship with Christina.
Before the interview with Chris, he had asked me to design an infographic;
The poster above is the original that Chris sent me.
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