This task is very meaningful for me, it helps me to discover my qualities to fulfil my dream job. As I realised what job I prefer to do in the future basing what I like to do and where am I interested to work. It helps me to become aware of skills that I have, to identify and develop skills that I need, to work out what I want to achieve and how to achieve it, to focus on potential study, career and personal development options and goals, to develop a source of information and to get prepared for CVs, job application and interview.

And as I’ve already done this task last year as well, I hope I can find something new for myself this year.

Let’s start to talk about my strengths:

  • I’m good at multitasking because I can take notes during a feedback or pitch section while I listen to someone giving me feedback on my work, I’ve improved to keep maintaining a good rhythm on my Uni’s work, not only at Uni’s life but also in my personal life I’m good at multitasking as I do so many other works at home for family and at my current workplace.   
  • I’m good at teamwork because I love to work with my classmates and like to get feedback and give feedback to them on their work.  Also, I have good patience skills in group work so I feel this will be very useful in the future when I’ll need to collaborate with my colleagues or deal with my clients.
  • I’m a creative person driven by my passion for design. I’m proficient with graphic tools and have an artistic approach towards everything I create. 
  • From my 1st year of Uni, I’ve made myself more strong to not shy and I try to express myself openly. I’m still developing my communication skills because I know what’s the value of this aspect in a workplace.
  • So far I can say that I’m not a very good use of all Adobe Software but from last year and this year’s work experiment with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, my technical skills have developed a lot. If I can’t understand some tools I do research and try to solve my problem.

In my weakness I have:

  • I have to improve my skills in creating videos (slow motion or advertising videos), and I need to improve my skills in Premier Pro.
  • This semester we’ve started to use Adobe XD so I need to develop my knowledge of usage on it.
  • One of my weaknesses is that I panic a lot during my coursework because while I hard work to do a good job and give a better outcome I feel less encouraged by people around me. I need more encouragement so that I can feel confident in myself and give my best ideas and work.
  •  UI (user interface) and interactive design skills as it has become increasingly valuable skills. This field focuses on bridging the gap between complex computing and the user experience through visually pleasing forms and layouts. Hopefully by the end of this year thought my module work i can improve this skill.

Here are my opportunities:

  • I need to make my portfolio and in my spare time I should implement my technical skills by doing some new works excluding the Uni’s work.
  • From this year the Add-vantage module has started to give to the students the opportunity to get an Abode software qualification if they choose one of them. Because I have chose a different module this year in the 1st semester therefore I can’t use this opportunity but hopefully the next I’ll try to do it.
  • I would like to join a part-time job in this sector so that I can rich my portfolio and without taking any gap year or placement, I can start my new career after my graduation.

Finally, let’s see the threats:

  • I need more time to get used to the new software; (Adobe XD, Figma, Premier Pro);
  • I don’t have plenty of time to practice my skills, I have to do so many activities during the day, most of the time I spend to travel by bus to come to the Uni and to comeback to home;
  • For a professional job I need to have work experience, not only the work done at Uni is enough to get a good job;
  • I have lack in English which I try to improve everyday .