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Tell Us About Yourself
The dreaded words. Everything that you are summarised in one paragraph. Your entire being, all your experiences wrapped up, neatly, in a little bow. “Tell us about yourself.” As soon as you hear this everything goes through your mind. Should I talk about my hobbies? My academic achievements? My work experience? How can I express…
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Simulated Interviews – And How Preparation Is Key
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First Days on Placement – A Learning Curve
After the challenging task of finding a placement and facing rejection constantly from different production companies, I finally started at DoubleBand Films in January. My role while on placement is as a Research Assistant, a role which prior to starting I had little experience in which led to some learning experiences as I found some…
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Reflections on simulated interviews in the creative industry
Introduction, ‘Description’: In this blog, I will expand on the learning and development the simulated interviews prompted and how I plan on utilising the information gained in developing my career opportunities. I will expand upon how my experience in this situation relates to the reflective learning diagrams spoken about in my previous blog post. As…
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The Inevitable Battle of the Simulated Interview
Applying for jobs is always exciting, there’s no doubt in that. But for every butterfly of excitement there is also an existential dread for one inevitable part of the process, the interview. Regardless of how badly I have ever wanted a job the knowledge that an interview is an unavoidable enemy that must be defeated…
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Through adversity to the stars
I faced the ultimate challenge during my placement at Action Mental Health. I will be using Borton’s model from 1970 as summarised in Jasper 2013 as a tool to help me reflect upon this time. This reflective model is broken into three aspects; “What?” which entails a description of the events. “So what?” which entails…