Focus: How students can and should develop outbound skills while still in school.

Our Ready, Set, Go! workshop will explore how to activate an internship, start work after graduation as a designer, photographer or illustrator.

Event Overview

Check in: 9:00am on-site registration, coffee and healthy nibbles. Be sure you to have breakfast before you arrive or bring snacks.

#1 Session One: 10:00am – 11:00am

Junior Panel: 6 recent graduates — will share their experience upon graduating from school and what they encountered after entering the real world. Our panelists will provide what worked, what to avoid including helpful insights to plan ahead before venturing out and for continued success.

#2 Session Two: 11:15am – 12:00pm

Our guest speaker (Karl Heine) will introduce the “flexible toolbox” and the proper build to going out into the marketplace and what every agency, art buyer, design firm, brand and company look for from the moment they find you to walking in the door and what happens when you leave. This session will also cover methodologies creating “Hire Visibility” from web to a physical portfolio and why these are not the same.

Lunch break: 12:15pm – 1:15pm

#3 Session Three: 1:30pm – 2:45pm

Seasoned Panel: 4 professionals including Agency Owners and Brand Directors — best approach and what they are looking for when hiring talent right out of school in either an internship, freelance or full-time opportunity. Best practices for presenting your portfolio and resume to make the initial contact and the process they follow to get you in the door. Our panelist will share what worked for them right out of school and what has changed over the last couple years.

#4 Session Four: 3:00 – 4:30pm

Portfolio Reviews + Mix and Mingle with reviewers