10 Career Tips for University Product Design Students
Product Design 5 MINS read 30th Apr 2019
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Product Design 5 MINS read 30th Apr 2019
How do you find these mystical companies that want to employ you? How do you make yourself stand out from the sea of new design graduates? How do you make the jump from being a student designer to a pro designer with a proper job, a salary and all those grown-up responsibilities?!
Write a CV. Build an online design portfolio. Get a LinkedIn account. You never know when opportunities will pop up, and you want to be able to easily send your information over and look professional and prepared.
Obviously, experience looks good on your CV. But make sure it is experience in a related industry, otherwise you won’t be exposed to the real-world design processes that university simply cannot teach you.
Get to know as many companies as possible, and you never know what opportunities may arise. Speak to lecturers, family friends, go to networking events, and create opportunities yourself. Think differently, e.g. why not set up a mid-year exhibition where final year students could showcase their work, and companies are invited along to meet the fresh talent. Initiative is everything.
But it’s entirely up to you to use these skills to experiment, learn and be creative. The worst thing you could ever do is limit your design because you’re not sure how to make it on CAD.
If you struggle with sketching, follow some industrial design sketching boards on Pinterest. If your weakness is CAD, find online tutorials. Identify what you struggle with, and improve on it.
Projects in industry may need to be turned around in days, rather than weeks or months like student projects. Learn how to work quickly.
You’ll arrive at a far better design in the same amount of time.
Collaboration isn’t encouraged at university — lecturers want to see what you can produce as an individual. However, industry is all about teamwork, so find a way of sharing your ideas, receiving criticism and editing your design based on feedback.
You’ll only get out what you put in. You’re not going to change the world with every design, but work hard and you’ll learn something new from every project, no matter how mundane it seems.
You might not be lucky enough to land a job before you graduate. But while you’re living back at your parent’s house with time to kill, do something productive. Practise sketching, catch up on design-related news, and update your website and CV.
Hopefully, alongside a big dose of hard work and talent, this advice will help you in landing your first real-life design job. Good luck!
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