When Meeting Up
You get the call: you’ve been invited to go and meet Financial advisors Glastonbury and show them your graphic design portfolio! But there’s a spanner in the works and that spanner is one that is about to rip your head off, because it’s sharp as a razor don’t you know: you don’t HAVE a portfolio, do you, idiot? No, you winged it, thinking that they’d never agree to your pitch anyway… Oh dear. I’d like to say that worse things happen at sea but they don’t, not as far as I’m aware. No, boats are relatively safe…it’s them graphic designers fresh out of a media studies course you’ve got to watch out for… Here is how to go about solving this ridiculous situation. 1) Get something for your portfolio. I’m not suggesting you steal another graphic designer’s stuff, because clearly that’s wrong, but I am suggesting you get a gig quicksmart. A free gig, anything really. Just get someone to agree to you doing some designing for them, even if it’s Mrs Hump next door and she doesn’t even know what a monitor is… 2) Dress smart: do this for obvious reasons – to distract them from your thinner than thin portfolio. Focus on your enthusiasm for the job and when they ask you why you don’t appear to have a CV either invent a lie pronto or be in possession of a time machine fast… 3) The CV: you should have done this before, but I’m going to assume you are reading this before an important meeting, and if you didn’t read it before then that’s your own stupid fault me thinks. Lesson learned. 4) You can be honest: potential employers would appreciate knowing you don’t have much experience. They may not even mind too much, providing you have references to vouch for you (who are not Mr or Mrs Hump). 5) Good luck!
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