Iterate the following from professional practices:
- Post the following to this google doc.
- Your portfolio website NOTE: This is different than your process website. This website should market and promote your entire body of work including your senior project for possible employment or other post graduation opportunities. Ideally, you should have your own domain name. I suggest getting your own domain name through an ISP (Internet Service Provider. I recommend Siteground or Dreamhost.
- Your LinkedIn profile. Make sure you connect with me, your peers in this section of senior project, the other senior project sections, and with as many people as possible in the IDM community. Continue to build your network.
- Export the following as pdfs and upload to your project documentation folder for your end of semester deliverables in a folder named "Pro Practices Revisions".
- Please name your files as lastname_senior_sp20_resume.pdf and lastname_senior_sp20_cover.pdf
- Resume (which should contain the URL to your portfolio website)
- Cover Letter
NYU Resources
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Students can get free headshots from the NYU Photo Bureau. I highly recommend that you take advantage of it for your portfolio website and LinkedIn profile. It's a very popular service. You just need to book it (sometimes weeks) in advance. The NYU photo bureau is currently moving locations. So they're not taking any appointments until February.
Miscellaneous
- AIGA Professional Resources
- Pew Resarch
- Get A Design Job! by RitaSue Siegel
- How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
Job Boards
- Glass Door
- Uncubed
- We Work Remotely
- AIGA Design Jobs
- Creative Applications
- Krop
- Coroflot
- Creative Hotlist
Salary Negotiation
- Fealess Negotiating by Michael C. Donaldson
- Lean In for Graduates by Sheryl Sanders
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Freelance
- The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide to Running a Small Graphics Design or Communications Business by Cameron Foote
- Docracy
- AIGA Standard Service Agreement
- smashing magazine: The Collective Legal Guide for Designers
- Dealing with Clients who refuse to pay
- CSS Kill Switch
- Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourselfby Daniel Pink
Entrepreneurship
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
Networking
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
Branding
- Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier
Crowdsource Funding
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- How To Stop Worrying & Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau