1. Employment Profile: What exactly does a Graphic Designer do? |
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 What field is your job in?
Graphic Design
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What is your job title?
Graphic Designer
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Please provide a brief description of the firm or organization that you currently work for
(size and general description of what type of organization it is)
I work for Consulting Company. It is a startup IT Consulting firm with almost 15 employees.
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How long have you been employed in this position?
Past 6 months
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How many hours do you work a week on average?
25 hours
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Please provide a BRIEF description of your duties and responsibilities. (job description)
I design marketing materials, company logo, brochers, banners for the company's marketing department.
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What was your gross income last year? Please include any bonuses or incentives received.
I was working on a contract position in 2006.
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What is your expected gross income for this year? Please include any bonuses or incentives you expect to receive.
25000
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Please
list any benefits you have (Please include number of weeks vacation,
sick leave and type of health insurance, retirement plan 401k)
NIL
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Do you feel you are under/well/over compensated at your current position?
Well compensated
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2. Work environment! |
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Does
your job entail you working with others on a daily basis? Is this
something you like/dislike about your job? Explain
Yes, with the marketing depatment. I really like discussing different ideas and it is really helps for the outcome of the design by talking to people about the different ideas I have. Its easy to give life to my ideas when I work in team.
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Do you work collaboratively with supervisors/managers?
Yes
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Do you work collaboratively with your co-workers?
Yes
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Describe
your work location (e.g., office, home, theatre, in the field) and what
you like/dislike about working in it
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Please rank in order of importance from 1-8 (1- most important 8- least important) Assign each number once.
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2 Income
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1 Work Environment - co-workers
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3 Work Environment - supervisors
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7 Benefits
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6 Hours
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5 Level of responsibility
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4 The actual "work" you do at your job
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8 Job Title
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3. How should someone new to the workforce get a J-O-B like yours? |
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If someone wanted to go about getting a job similar to yours, what would you recommend for him or her to do?
Prepare yourself first with educational background, then without waiting for a better job, start with any design job. Remember no design job is a small job or not worthy job. Always look for new opportunities in and around your community. Look for design jobs in your local school, muesum, library. Approch different business people and offer them for logo design, brocher design. Try for real world experience. Dont ust waste time in piling up mock up portfolio. Real world desgn experience are more important in landing up a job like me.
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What
skills do you think a person should have if they want to pursue a
position like yours? Please be specific and explain why (e.g., social
skills, organization skills, technical skills)
Hand drawing, painting, creative skills, any range of design software, advance expertise of Photoshop, Abobe Illustrator, Quark Express and knowledge of similar software.
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Do you feel that you need a certain level of education or training to be successful in your job?
Yes. Any design course offered by any college will be additional to landup in a successful design job
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What advice would you give to someone who was about to start work in your position/ line of work?
Be sincere in the job. Try to be more creative. Portfolio is the most important think in this industry. Get a good eye and good feel for colors. Any design is a creation, there is nothing called bad design. Its a form of your creativity. Just collect your thought and ideas and have an idea of the outcome before even you start a project. Planning is the most important aspect in design indistry. Approch with positive and upbeat attitude.
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