Comments for The Business of Web Design https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk 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/ Comment on Getting into the Web Industry 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

]]> Comment on Getting into the Web Industry 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!

]]> Comment on Get in touch by Joel_Hughes https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/get-in-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-2137 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:03:54 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?page_id=5#comment-2137 Hi Hamish,
Thanks for stopping by.

I did consider video but it just didn’t come off this year. Perhaps next time and perhaps I’ll do some online stuff as well – stay tuned!

Joel

p.s. what part of France do you live in? My brother lives near Limoges

]]> Comment on Get in touch by Hamish https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/get-in-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-2086 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:57:00 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?page_id=5#comment-2086 hello Joel,
Just to say i love the podcast & was wondering if you will make any audio or video available of the conference. I live in France so it’s not exactly easy to come over and attend.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks,
Hamish ]]> Comment on 2014 Conference – Info by Joel_Hughes https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/07/08/2014-conference-info/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 06:17:01 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=450#comment-1889 Hi Pete, there is a big car park right opposite the event building. From memory it’s not too expensive and if you don’t have coins there is one machine which takes cards.

http://www.southwales.ac.uk/visiting/cardiff-campus/

See you Friday!

Joel

]]> Comment on 2014 Conference – Info by Pete Blakemore https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/07/08/2014-conference-info/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:32:24 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=450#comment-1873 Nice on Joel. Thoroughly looking forward to it. Any ideas where I can park my motorbike? #helmethair ]]> Comment on 2014 Conference – Info by Steve https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/07/08/2014-conference-info/comment-page-1/#comment-1823 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:23:17 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=450#comment-1823 Hey Joel. Got my ticket – looking forward to it!

It might be worth mentioning that it’s a 5-minute walk from Cardiff Queen Street station. For people travelling from outside of Cardiff, it probably still makes sense to walk from Cardiff Central, but for those passing through Queen St anyway, they can disembark and make their way from there instead. :-)

]]> Comment on The Roadshow hits Brighton on the 26th of June by Elliot (Raison) (@raisononline) https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/06/19/tboroadshow-hits-brighton-on-the-26th-of-june/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:38:59 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=438#comment-1622 Looking forward to giving the talk – see you all there. ]]> Comment on Setting objectives can save your sanity (Part 1 of 2) by Pete Blakemore https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/04/11/setting-objectives-can-save-your-sanity-part-1-of-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 Tue, 27 May 2014 12:00:38 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=396#comment-1243 Really enjoyed this post Liz, thanks. I’ve been reading some of Jordan Belfort’s (the real Wolf of Wall Street) stuff recently and he advocates having a “vision” that we should work towards. He thinks that goals and objectives are great if they mean they help us work towards an end vision for where and who you want to be, whatever we decide that is. Cheers. ]]> Comment on Losing out on work- Don’t Get Mad, Get Even! by Emma Davis (@thewebbakery) https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/2014/05/09/losing-out-on-work-dont-get-mad-get-even/comment-page-1/#comment-1116 Mon, 19 May 2014 08:45:53 +0000 https://www.thebusinessofwebdesign.co.uk/?p=424#comment-1116 I would love to see the questions you asked – any chance?? ]]>