What I learnt from employability week

Throughout employability week, I tried to fit in my personal work for SB1 and SB2 as well, however I found it quite difficult as we had to attend the sessions and also do some tasks outside the sessions relating to employability week as well, e.g. make a presentation. Having all these extra things to do for employability week made me really stressed as I had less time to do my studio briefs as well as the fact that it messed up the timetable that I made for myself. I also couldn't concentrate well on the studio briefs and felt that I was very stagnant during the 2 weeks and wasn't going any where with my briefs. During this time as well I felt that SB2 had more content to work with therefore I focused on it more that SB1 (still). However, during this time I did attempt to focus more on Sb1 as well, however it was very hard as I started to feel really overwhelmed by everything and thinking that I'm not going to get anything done.

However, despite this though I did learnt a lot from employability week, particularly the Creativity in Context session which I thought was really entertaining and insightful. I learnt about the different ways of how job roles are described and made me more confident that their are a lot more niche and wide range of professions that comes under the Graphic Design umbrella and made me realise that I have skills for jobs that I never thought of before. Also, the Self Confidence and Networking session with 'The Light Bulb People' was very fun as Rick was very engaging with us which helped me focus on what he was talking about as well. In particular as well, I really enjoyed the 'Mindfulness' session with Lucile as I had it at a time when I was feeling the most stressed out too so her session helped me to calm down a bit and made me think of ways in which I could improve on it as well. 

Overall, employability fortnight was quite an educative 2 weeks and I've learnt various techniques and ways about employment in the future and how to go about it. However, at the same time I feel like it was quite long at times and some sessions could've been put together into one session e.g the job application and interview sessions as they were very similar and made senses to come together. Putting sessions together could've given use more time to work on our studio briefs during the employability fortnight and would've been more time efficient as well.