Hi Bob,
One other thing that can help is once you've completed your portfolio,
see if you can get a critique to get constructive feedback. This will
only help to make it that much stronger.
Good luck!
David
On Aug 9, 2008, at 12:21 PM, bobdickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Well thank you very much everybody for the useful replies. It's
obvious looking back, but no, I did not have a portfolio. Since then,
I've been burning the midnight oil and put one up with what work I
could (in between changing the nappies of my new daughter Louise and
feeding her - she was born only a few weeks ago!). It certainly makes
me feel more confident that I can show my work visually and though
it's brief, it's something. Uday - I liked your article: Doing this
job is like walking a knife-edge with science and data on one side and
art and beauty on the other.
The "too academic" criticism was surprising to me because I am
primarily an artistic person but re-reading my resume I can see where
it comes from. I always enjoyed drawing, painting, music and
photography when I was growing up, but fell into science as a way of
getting discipline and understanding. Art is not enough to really
understand people; and science cannot usefully recognise beauty.
I guess there is a little bias against PhDs as Fred pointed out. All
I can do is show my work and hope they will look at the person behind
the qualifications. For what it's worth, I've known some idiots
without PhDs too. ;-)
And Marilyn - I never thought to put those types of skills into my
resume. Thanks!
All the best everyone and thanks again for the advice.
Bob
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