Discussion: Industry Job Posting
This assignment measures Module Objective 2.4, which supports Course Competency 5.
Objectives
- 2.4 Locate job postings and portfolios in your field, and identify the skills, software and presentation strategies they repeat. (Course Competency 5)
Overview
Real postings tell you which skills employers want, which software they expect and how to talk about your work. This is the first of two job-posting discussions.
5 points, Exercises. About 1 hours.
Discussion Prompt
Find one real posting that interests you and tell the class what it would take to get it.
Instructions
- Search a board for your field. The Employment Landscape Survey lists boards by discipline, including AIGA Design Jobs, Creative Circle and ArtStation Jobs.
- Open the posting on the employer’s own site to confirm it is still open.
- Write your post: a link or screenshot, the organization and role, one requirement you already meet, and one you need to develop, with a specific plan to address it.
- Post in #avc248-design-self-promotion on the Digital Media Discord. Posting a day or two before the deadline gives classmates time to reply.
- By the deadline, comment on three classmates’ posts. Each comment names a specific detail in their post (a skill, a line, a project or a requirement) and adds a question, a resource or an observation.
- Submit screenshots of your post and your three comments, or links to the messages, in Canvas.
Example
“Junior Motion Designer at a Salt Lake City agency. They want After Effects and Cinema 4D (I know both) and Redshift for rendering, which I do not know yet. I will work through two beginner Redshift tutorials this month and add one rendered piece to my portfolio.”
Accessibility
Add alt text to every image you post in Discord: click the pencil icon on the attachment before you send it and write one or two sentences on what matters in the image. Do not begin with “image of.”
Submission
Submit screenshots of your post and three comments, or links to the Discord messages.
Rubric (5 points)
| Criterion | Points |
|---|---|
| Post answers every part of the prompt (Objective 2.4) | 2 |
| Post gives specific evidence: a link, a screenshot, or a named project, skill or requirement (Objective 2.4) | 1 |
| Three comments, each naming a specific detail in the classmate’s post (a skill, a line, a project or a requirement) (Objective 2.4) | 1.5 |
| Accessibility: alt text on every image posted | 0.5 |
| Total | 5 |
Due
All times are Arizona time.
- Due in Canvas: Thursday, February 4, 12:00 p.m.
- Hard close: Friday, February 5, 12:00 p.m. Work submitted after the deadline and before the hard close loses 10%. Nothing is accepted after the hard close.