Thursday 15 June 2017

Task 7 - Career development materials

How to get a job

CV

A CV is a description of yourself, used to sell yourself to your employer. A CV will include your previous grades from high school and college, any achievements you have done, or any activities you have participated in which makes you stand out above everyone else. You will also need to provide your employer with personal details such as your address, name, date of birth and any contact details that they might need. A good, professional CV will make an employer want to hire you, so when you create your own CV, you should put a lot of effort into making it presentable.
This is an example of a good CV. It includes all of the required details and information about the person.


Dream Job/ Aspirations

My dream job is to work for a well-known gaming company such as, Blizzard, Bethesda or Nintendo. I would want to work on games such as Overwatch with Blizzard or Elder Scrolls 6 with Bethesda. To achieve this goal i will need to work hard at college and obtain distinctions in my work since getting into a big company will take a lot of effort. I will also need to work in my own time to increase my skills even further to prepare myself for getting one of these jobs.


Portfolio

An Online Portfolio is a personal showcase of your achievements in your line of work. It is used to create an online overview of your achievements which can be used to make yourself visible to the online community and help you gain reputation.


Advantages of a Portfolio
It is a good way of getting known as it has a compilation of all of your work and achievements visible by everyone.
You can show an employer all of your previous work easily.


Disadvantages of a Portfolio
I don't think there are any disadvantages in having an online portfolio as it helps you greatly. However you could have some issues with an online portfolio if not done correctly, such as having your work stolen.

This is an example of an online portfolio. Molly Jameson has a brief description of herself with a link to her full resume, containing lots of confirmation about herself.
It clearly shows different pieces of work that she has created using the slideshow at the top right, which cycles through some of her work.

Business Card
A business card shows the information about a company or an individual. These cards are made for you to hand out to people to give them your contact information so that they can contact you for your expertise in your are of work. A business card is a small cheap card that can easily and cheaply be reproduced. The card will have your name and any contact information required for them to get in touch with you.
This is a business card i have created as an example of a good business card. I think it is a good business card as it is plain and the text is easily readable. It also includes the information required for people to get in touch with me.

Career Development Spreadsheet

Game Designer
A game designer plans what a game will turn out to be. They work out what a game will contain and how it will be played, then they plan each element of the game, for example, the game's setting and environment, the structures found within the environment, any characters, the overall story of the game, what kind of objects will be present and which ones will be intractable by the player, for example designing a car that can be entered upon pressing a certain button, would be planned by the game designer.

Animator
Animators are responsible in bringing the 2D art and 3D models to live be creating the movements and behaviours of the models. Animations or usually used with characters and anything that has a visible movement such as scenery like grass swaying. Animators create these animations using 3D animating software such as Maya. Animators work within the art department team of a company and work closely with the other artists.
Animators are also responsible for the technical processes of rigging and skinning their characters and models. They will need to create the character's bone structure underneath the model then attaching the appropriate body parts to each bone, making it easier to animate the model.

Programmer
A game programmer are in charge of creating the code for a game. The code is the core of a video game and without it the video game would just be assets. The code brings everyone else's creations together to form a working game. Programmers will use their coding knowledge to write new code and adapting already written code to work with their project. They will perform tests on the code and fix any bugs they find. Developing customised tools for other members of the development team could also be one of the jobs of a programmer. The various types of coding programmers will have to create can be Artificial Intelligence(like making AI enemies move around and attack you), adding physics to the world (such as the gravity strength or having the ability to move objects around).


QA Tester
Quality Assurance Technicians or Testers will be in charge of testing the game throughout it's development process to point out any bugs then debug the game and make suggestions to the team to help improve the quality of the game. They will report back on the playability and enjoy factor of the game then try to suggest ways to improve. QA Testers will work in teams, sometimes playing together if it is a multiplayer game and will have to test the game over and over to make sure it is fully refined.



http://www.mollyjameson.com/
https://www.dayjob.com/content/it-cv-template-355.htm

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