Job Advert Response

More details of the job I have found can be found here.

I initially selected this job as it seemed to be relatively attainable even at this point in my education. As a 'Junior Web Designer' role, I feel that it is intended for younger, less experienced designers, and perhaps those coming from education. Hence it seemed ideal for someone in my position.

The skills identified for the job include a knowledge of 'XHTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Flash, AJAX, Fireworks, Photoshop & Illustrator' being an advantage. I feel I have a good knowledge of the majority of these, with the exceptions of Flash and AJAX.

I feel confident with my XHTML/CSS skills, and as part of this my ability to use Dreamweaver, and I am more than satisfied with my abilities in the other applications mentioned, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator.

I believe that, in truth, I have maybe selected a job with less skills than I would like to have developed by the end of the course. This is due to my very limited experience with PHP and other technologies mentioned in other adverts, and I felt selecting these other adverts may have been a bit ahead of time.

Over the next year, therefore, it needs to be my priority to meet the skills requested and required in both this job and others I have seen. These skills involve PHP, CMS and Flash, amongst others. I also believe I need to further my experience, particularly commercial experience, as this is something that is mentioned in a lot of the job advertisements I have seen in the past week.

I would hope that by the end of the course that I would be skilled beyond the skills requested in this advert, and would feel more comfortable selecting a higher skilled (and hopefully higher paid!) job.