Discussion: Stretch Job Posting

This assignment measures Module Objective 5.5, which supports Course Competency 5.

Objectives

• 5.5 Locate one stretch posting in your field, and identify one requirement you meet, one you do not, and a plan to close the gap. (Course Competency 5)

Overview

The more real postings you study, the better you understand what your field wants. This discussion looks one step past your current level, to a job you want but may not be ready for yet.

5 points, Exercises. About 1 hours.

Discussion Prompt

Find a job you want but might not be fully ready for. What would it take?

Instructions

1. Search for a posting in your field one level beyond where you are now, and confirm it on the employer’s own site.
2. Write your post: the title, organization and a link or screenshot; one requirement you meet; one you do not meet yet; and one specific thing you can do this term to close that gap.
3. Post in #avc248-design-self-promotion on the Digital Media Discord. Posting a day or two before the deadline gives classmates time to reply.
4. 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.
5. Submit screenshots of your post and your three comments, or links to the messages, in Canvas.

Example

“3D Animator at a Los Angeles studio. They want Maya and V-Ray, and I know only Cinema 4D. My plan: four hours a week on Maya fundamentals, and one Maya scene in my portfolio by the final presentation.”

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)

Due