Pauloz
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Location: Sydney
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 Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: |
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keneme26
This is a professional position. They'll be more interested in your qualifications than timekeeping on your age bracket, as long as you've got a good portfolio and presentation.
Effectively, you're going for an entry level position, just doing it a bit later than usual. At internship level, you don't need a work history beyond things like work experience, so suggest you target internships as your starting point.
The work history:
It takes time to get qualifications and licenses. You also needed a career direction, so you can say at an interview that you made a few false starts in your studies, wanted to try something else, didn't work out, etc. There are a lot of people in this position, who for one reason or another don't get started at 22-ish, and stagger through to their mid 20s under their own steam doing other things. I was one of them... after you get started, it's easy enough.
In this line of work, you're the event, in terms of presentation. If you've got good materials, good ideas, and good showmanship, nobody will care about the clock watching element.
Remember, this isn't one of the hack jobs of the industry, it's a higher specialist level. Not everybody has this qualification, and you can work on that angle pretty effectively. Prove your competence to the people who need to see it, and you're in. |
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