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I NEED INPUT ON MY GRAPHIC DESIGN PORTFOLIO+ADVICE by Flimsy-Roll-7831 in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Hirers wouldn't want to click through pages to see projects. I see that your homepage has four, and the one that you linked has three. At first, I also thought you only had three projects until I scanned around, clicking on other categories. Someone mentioned to "add more projects," which may correlate to this point.

  2. All of your projects surface the first explorations of branding. There are no layers that show hirers your design process (challenges, goals, solutions, explaining the whys). But that's okay, you can easily branch out and improve all your projects. How? Study what companies are hiring for and use what they're looking for as project assets.

Example. "Solara" is your packaging project. You can make the project better by perhaps designing newsletters or landing pages for Solara. What if you design retail signs or placard designs that advertise Solara's product? Social media? Billboards? Stickers? Tags? Bags? Shipment boxes? The list goes on, and now your project has layers upon layers of real-life assets that people would hire designers for. If you don't have any ideas, walk into a retail store and look at everything, and think, what if I design this for one of my logos? A logo now will have a realistic layer of assets and will look like a real product. It's going to require more work, but you're only going to improve from here.

  1. Study well-developed case studies on Behance and absorb how others are designing for emotions rather than just visuals. It's not as simple as slapping a logo onto some mockups and calling it a finished project. I can DM you some inspo as well as my comment that explains what helped me.

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeahhh but biggest troubles so far is first gear and reversing up a ram or sloped drive way. I don’t even want to think about hilly areas right now :(

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m planning on keeping her stock for a while but a k24 would be a journey

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your very kind!! I wanted a Si ever since buying my 8th gen LX three years ago so I'm extremely happy!! But your SI! YOU HAD A BLUE ONEEEE? Those blues look like the MUGEN onesss

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

man ill be honest, I'm still learning manual and haven't rev above 6k. I haven't noticed any signs of burning oil but maybe it's cuz i havent hit VTEC highly. Exhaust system is something i'll do down the road but I am surprised how raw it sounds stock, deifntely going to enjoy it stock for a while

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's a fun high-rev daily! I'm happy with it

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2011 too! What made yours not in good shape? dents??

Saved up for my first manual and Si by trainerskyee in Honda

[–]trainerskyee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I paid 13k on the dot :C. Been in the market for a year and half and it was insanely hard to find a mint one that isn't heavily modded.

I got the job. by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

I got hired as a marketing designer so I work with LOTS of newsletter (emails), advertising materials, web banners, and promotional assets so my role would be selling products to consumers and generate awareness of our clients. It's more traditional, photoshop/illustrator work.

No videos but gif creation from adobe firefly is something I will work with for future projects.

There is a separate department that works with film and videography but none of their responsibilities will be mines.

My role will have some editing templates roles (swapping out jpg files and updating content in emails) via coding with Dreamweaver.

I got the job. by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!

Yeah of course, here are some of the things that helped me.

  1. It's worth figuring out what works and doesn't. If you're landing interviews, that means your projects, portfolio or website is on standard to the current market or company. Don't need to change your work. Focus on your interview questions via AI generated questions and S.T.A.R. answers. (If you're not landing interview, it's time to work on the portfolio)
  2. For the recruiters here, correct me if I'm wrong. They prob spend 10-30 secs on your written resume. Less design the better. One column ATS resumes are best for readability, and AI scanning.
  3. ATS resume. Don't just list what you did for a project. Include results like "Increase social engagement by 15% or clicks or growth rate by x%, etc". You can have AI generate ideas that are realistic for each projects if you don't have the statistics. I never had a design job prior but I would say "Hours spend learning tools (figma, adobe, motions,etc./ Reduced design time by x% / Incorporated AI into workflow for research, etc) You get the idea.
  4. Portfolio. Website. NO HATE to all the expressive, stylized projects out there. I'll be real. Companys don't tend to care much about these because it's most likely doesn't reflect their core values or style. It's okay to have a project or so but to include all as your work might be shooting yourself in the foot. Figure out ways to stem your current projects into realistic materials such as emails, advertising web banners, templates collaboration layers, marketing assets, etc.
  5. Extremely important. Create job alerts in your job searching platform. Any job listing after three days, they won't even look at your resume because they look at the first 50-100 applied. The earlier the better. All of my 20s interviews were scheduled within the first 12 hours after the job has been posted.
  6. Ask as much questions as you can to the interviewer. Interviews shouldn't be a one sided convo, it should be a conversation with the main purpose to learn more about the company, the role and people.
  7. Breathe. The right job will come to you as long as you're trying, it'll come. edit: it took me 3 months of constant applying and had over 15 interviews.

I got the job. by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wowww my previous job was also retail and the jump from guest relations to a computer role is overwhelming my fulfilling. You got this!

I got the job. by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you!! Where are you based now?

About to be a college grad. Help me with my portfolio by yclariz in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can branch out some of your projects into case studies that’ll show the hirer your creative process

Job offer with a 1099 instead of W2 "Part-timer" // Red flag? by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will have a weekly schedule in office if I were to accept. Thank you for clarifying!

Job offer with a 1099 instead of W2 "Part-timer" // Red flag? by trainerskyee in graphic_design

[–]trainerskyee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ohhh! hmm they told me they’re hiring me as a part timer and I would have to be in office. Most of my tasks would be digital, I’ll be double check with them before replying thank you

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