How To Be A Professional Kristy Simpson SWOT
How To Be A Professional Kristy Simpson
SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses • • • Editing Researching Work well under pressure Planning and Organizing Opportunities • • Work experience and placements help to develop skills (Media Producer for Culture Mundi) Improving weaknesses • • Sound Manipulation using audio software Aftereffects/Graphics designing Confidence Threats • Competitors who have more experience and knowledge • Amount of competitors compared to success rate – demotivating
My Professionals • Rebecca Stewart – Technical Skills Lecturer • Katie Rawcliffe – Creative Director ITV • Daniel Askill – Filmmaker and Artist (Only the first two replied) Rebecca Stewart is so intelligent and informed about a range of technology and software, so although I would not like to teach in the future, she has helped me obtain the practical skills useful for a career in the Media. She is also very inspiring! Daniel Askew is a filmmaker who works on a range of projects, from short films to music videos. It is his artistic work on music videos that made me curios about him. Although he didn’t get back to me! This clearly shows he is very busy! Katie Rawcliffe is a Creative Director at the ITV studios, a profession I aim towards in the future.
What Makes a Professional? WHEN DO YOU KNOW WHAT PROFESSION? All our lives we are pushed towards ‘what we want to be when we grow up’, from the interviews, the professionals weren’t sure or wanted to be something different to their final chosen path! It just shows that a professional doesn’t spend their whole life working towards one goal only, they experience and grow from that experience and new knowledge into a Professional. They might even end up working at something completely different to what they thought they wanted!
What Makes a Professional? HOW DO YOU GET THERE? The common answers are through education, the less common answers are the spontaneous breaks some people are blessed with but the key word throughout is HARD WORK. Everybody has to start somewhere and the bottom is the likely place but Professionals are DETERMINED, PERSISTENT and POSITIVE, they make their goals and deadlines no matter what it takes. Advice Given: Take any little job, shadowing or unpaid experience, learn and grow, show people your will and dedication, you will eventually be noticed and rewarded.
What Makes a Professional? WHEN DO YOU BECOME A PROFESSIONAL? “When I had a contract as a researcher on this morning. ” Katie didn’t consider herself a professional, despite working in TV studios previous to this, until a company signed her. After all her long hours and labour she had, finally, been recognised for her work!
Key Characteristics of a Professional • • • Very Hard Working Great body of knowledge and experience Willing to go to great lengths for their job Recognition for your work Company signing you Continuously producing work of high standards Discipline and focus Thriving and adapting in an ever-changing industry Making mistakes, admitting to it, learning from them
How Do I Become A Professional • WORK! Slave away, do anything anyone asks, every little, demeaning job, use it to motivate you towards your future goals. • BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS Learn a lot, not a little! Have a range of skills in many areas which allow you to adapt to many working environments. A Professional yearns for more knowledge and not only learns from their own mistakes, but the mistakes of others, and use it to their advantage. • DISTRIBUTION AND RECOGNITION It isn’t until your name is circulating that you establish your identity on the scene, whichever scene you choose. As long as you get your work out there, someone may watch it. Not everyone will like what you do but doesn’t that make your endeavors more interesting.
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