media careers fayre

today was the media careers fayre at city hall, organised by cardiff university. lou, steve, liz, jack, joe, raymond, alicks, james and myself went down to see what was on offer, and to check out the interactive media presentation at the end of the day

i spent a bit of time wandering around the stalls, caught up with kirsten from buzz magazine, and spoke to the bbc about their new media placements. ray pointed out bournemouth university's selection of MA courses, of which the interactive media MA particularly caught my attention

am i up to an MA though? computer says hahaha

for the presentation, we were treated to speeches from grahame davies (head of welsh language new media for the bbc) and simon someoneorother from the cardiff uni journalism school. while giving entertaining testimonies, i think everyone was a little disappointed: too much self-history and not enough substance. i did take a few notes for cv enhancement however, as follows:


if possible, do a charitable work placement: demonstrate community spirit

list skills, e.g. familiarity with blogging, podcasting, cms's, php/mysql, html, photoshop, dreamweaver, wiki's, rss, social software/networking, and so on

list experience, e.g. cisco experience, ctc+ (rolls royce, bbc, electric december, nesta), work experience, what you've actually done (research project, freelance work), ideas you have, career philosophy, etc

produce two cv's: a brief paper-based one, and a detailed interactive one


after the presentation, lou and i decided to do a bit of brown nosing with grahame, laying some groundwork for applying for bbc placements in the summer. lou had met him before through dimension 10 and made short work of whoring herself and her golden pixl award; and i'm pretty sure he won't forget my piercings...although i'm not sure if he was staring out of disbelief or jealousy. i reckon the latter