Comments on: Getting into the Web Industry https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/08/05/getting-into-the-web-industry/ Help & advice from the front line of running a web design business Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:54:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joel_Hughes https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/08/05/getting-into-the-web-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2139 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:54:05 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=488#comment-2139 Hi Jack, thanks for stopping by.

You know, the thing is I really, really, really do not know why graduates are leaving university unprepared like this. Well, I do know – the university themselves are (in general) not doing a great job of teaching this ‘subject’. I’ve blogged about this before:

http://joelhughes.com/2011/03/24/the-student-gap-year-2-0/

Students need to know how to market themselves; every year I get a deluge of emails with a CV attached word doc – wtf? What year is this?!

Why are universities not clued up on this?

Joel

]]> By: Jack Barber (@jackbarber) https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/08/05/getting-into-the-web-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-2138 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:42:09 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=488#comment-2138 Great tips Joel. I had a call from a recent graduate a few weeks ago, wanting advice on how he might go about getting a job in web development. As you mentioned above, he wasn’t proactively reaching out, or getting to know other local firms through networking events etc. and his personal site wasn’t really geared towards getting a job.

It’s early days, but I’m taking him to the Dot York event in tonight (you never know who you’re going to meet at these events!) and helping him re-word his application letters and so on. Hopefully he’ll have a job before too long!

All I can say is, I’m glad I’m not in his position now – but perhaps I was never cut out for employment in the first place!

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