Work Experience (An Update & Advice)

Earlier this week I wrote a post on being accepted for an internship at Carat Media. Well, earlier today I received an email back from a different agency, Photolink Creative Group, informing me that I was rejected due to a lack of places available. However, they deemed me a good potential employee (as a result of the interview) and have kindly given me a contact and a recommendation to a different agency called Online Ventures Group. OVG focuses on using data to foster creative content to please customers and therefore clients and after an email enquiring about summer employment, I was offered an interview!

I will be attending this interview on Tuesday and the reason why I'm writing this post, is because it really highlights the importance of networking in practically any profession. Thanks to specialist social networks such as LinkedIn, it has become much easier to get to know employers and employees and to recommend others whom you value. If you aren't on LinkedIn then my only question is: WHY? Definitely join the site and make your profile appealing to viewers. But it doesn't stop there, you should also subscribe to job sites in your local job centre or if you're a university student, use any kind of newsletter, forum etc. that they have to try and gain experience from jobs advertised. University emails on employment opportunities was how I managed to get the Tomi Clothing in-house experience only 1-2 months after I started my course.

Suffice it to say, in a world where more and more people leave university with good degrees, experience and lots of it, various in nature, are the assets that will make you shine. And if you find it hard to land a job, visit employability workshops or even do something in your spare time that exemplifies a skill, something that very few people will have done with their time. The main reason why I got accepted at Tomi Clothing was because of my creative writing pursuits and now, thanks to that development, I am able to use my TC experience to press the main buttons of more prominent employers, having worked in the familiar roles already. Once the first foot is on the ladder, the rest is much easier as long as you continue to develop yourself. I will write a post on professional development sometime in the near future.

Thanks for reading.