While I enjoyed this class I found it very stressful, I know that everything we worked on in this class will help me practically in the future and the CV and portfolio lessons were very helpful at the beginning so that I could apply for different opportunities. I also appreciated how many check-ins and feedback I got during this semester. In the portfolio we had many different options with software and techniques I chose to use web-flow, it was a very interesting resource. I did have difficulties at times with it and relied heavily on tutorials and online forms to help me solve issues. It was made clear to me the importance of having a CV that presents me and all of my skills clearly and professionally as that is the first thing that employers look at.

The weekly lessons that we had this semester I found really engaging as they were areas that I knew very little about but it is very important to learn them especially if you plan to be a freelancer at any point in the future. One of the areas I find interesting is tenders which help protect the designer, without this class I would never have known how to approach a way of selling my idea and services.

I would have preferred to have more time on the tender document project and get feedback on it as I feel like I never had it checked by anyone because we moved on to the presentation so quickly. Out of all of my projects the one I am happiest with was the presentation as I felt it was really effective and I knew what I was talking about from all the research and feedback I received. I can understand how people use this presentation idea for final year, I will have to see if I think of another idea but this could end up being my final year project.

One area that I would have liked to be covered in class was cover letters as I was writing them for placement opportunities placement I would have liked to at least have an example to make sure I was on the right track. I appreciated that this semester we had lots of talks about things like imposter syndrome as it was an interesting conversation and helpful to know what resources we had.