This week was all about interview skills and how we can prepare for placement interviews. This week helped me figure out how I want to come across if I want to have a successful interview, as well as how important personal values are.
I decided to spend this week nailing down my personal values and expanding on them for preparation, so that I can be ready for interviews.
I have had to display communication is various situations throughout my university and work life, during my time on this course I had a group project last year were we had to create slides to present to the class. I had to communicate with my group to make sure we all had different topics to talk about and to ensure that we all had the correct amount of time to present our slides. In my work life I’ve had to convey communication skills so that the restaurant can run optimally to prevent customer dissatisfaction, because if im unable to communicate with my co-workers then the food we make will be late or missing so its important that im able work things out in the workplace.
During my time in school and university I have had to work through coursework tasks that have to be completed in a certain timeframe, In school I had to complete a write up for the subject Digital Technology based on the project we were doing. This took a lot of time as it was a big document so I had to figure out my timeframe and work towards the goal with enough time. In university I had a project for one of my modules last year were I had to create a website using CSS & HTML, although I was familiar with the languages it still took time and effort to complete the project given the timeframe.
Adaptability is another value that I’ve developed during my time at university. When I was on the computer science course before interaction design I had many coding projects were one line of code would be wrong and then the whole document wouldn’t work, So I had to adapt and find a different way of dealing with these challenges so that I could finish the projects correctly. Now in Interaction Design be adaptable is very important as we get constant feedback on our projects whether its from classmates or tutors, So I’ve had to be flexible in dealing with problems or parts I should change in my designs.