In this episode I chat with Andrew Francomb from the UK about their experience graduating from Lancaster University, and their experience of landing their first job. We chat about the impacts on Andrew’s mental health during this period of his life, and also how Lancaster help support their graduating students help find their feet.

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In this episode I chat with John Foley, a service designer based in London working with Livework Studio. We chat about what the experience was like leaving University, working as a design researcher - and how John made his own luck. We chat about portfolios and also the interview process for Livework. It’s a good one - lets get into it.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/designjfoley/

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I caught up Rohan Walsh, a UX designer from Port Macquarie inAustralia but now based in the Lebanon. We speak about Rohan’s journey to get where he is currently - including internships at Australia Post amongst others. Rohan is an awesome designer, filled with so much potential and quality in all areas of his life

https://www.rohanwalsh.design/bio

In this episode I chat with Kelly O Dowd, a recently graduate from NCAD in Ireland. We chat about what the experience was like leaving University, her search for jobs, and where they feel there’s opportunity for universities to better support students in that highly emotional stage of life - the transitional period between Uni and working life.

Kelly is totally fantastic and I know you will get a lot out of this episode. 

Let’s jump into the episode.

Full transcript and show notes are available here:

https://www.thisishcd.com/episode/kelly-odowd-they-want-you-to-have-so-many-skills-for-an-entry-level-job

Welcome to a new episode of Getting Stareted in Design, I’m your host Ben Maclaren.

In this episode, I talk to Natalia Alessi, a design lead at the University of Melbourne. Natalia reached out to us to help with some user research after this years Doing Design Festival.

She shared her illustrations from the Festival and I was inspired by her journey to bring her on the show. We talk about some of her experiences and challenges moving to Australia to transition into her design career from another field and how her perspectives on language and culture have influences her journey.  She shares her insights into making design more accessible and common challenges she has seen design students face.

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-alessi-b59b3a52

Hello and welcome to another episode of Getting Started in Design, I am your host Gerry Scullion, service designer and educator and founder of This is HCD Network and CEO of This is Doing. 

This podcast is focussed on shining a light on the tricky stages between education and employment and also covers moving careers into Design. We realise it’s not a simple career to break into, and I myself can totally relate to this, and often reflect back on the time (a long time ago when I struggled for a few years to catch a break). 

In this episode I chat with Sindhu Bhat, a service design student from Bangalore in India but based in Ireland. Sindhu contacted me recently to speak to her class about service design and we instantly connected - I was inspired about the journey from Film School in India that took her to IBM as an Experience Designer. This led her to reevaluate and return to study, move across the world to study service design. We chat about some of complexities that Sindhu has overcome to date in her career, and also what the future holds for her as she embarks on the next chapter of her career as a service designer - what problems she sees and what she plans to do to tackle them.

Sindhu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sindhuganapathibhat/?originalSubdomain=ie

Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?

Hello and welcome to another episode of Getting Started in Design, I am your host Gerry Scullion, service designer and educator and founder of This is HCD Network and CEO of This is Doing. 

This podcast is focussed on shining a light on the tricky stages between education and employment and also covers moving careers into Design. We realise it’s not a simple career to break into, and I myself can totally relate to this, and often reflect back on the time (a long time ago when I struggled for a few years to catch a break). 

Hopefully, this podcast goes some way towards helping you land your job in your chosen area of Design.

Today on the show we have Joanna Peel, a recent graduate in the area of interaction design in Ireland. We speak about the process that Joanna recently went through post leaving her masters, what she found to be helpful and how she managed to land not one, but two jobs - which is no mean feat in the current world that we find ourselves in.

Let’s jump into the episode.

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Today on the show we have Rebekah Murphy a UX Designer based in Sydney, Australia. I met Rebekah early last year and met a few times in a mentorship capacity.

Since then Rebekah has successfully transitioned into her first design role and is now the Chapter Lead for This is HCD in Sydney where she’s hosting events for the human-centred design community out there.

It’s a great episode that takes you on the journey from being introduced to Design via her job at Accenture in Ireland all the way through to hopping on a flight to Australia and training and landing her first job as a designer.

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Hello and welcome to Getting Started in Design, my name is Gerry Scullion and I am a service designer and trainer based in Dublin City Ireland. Getting Started in Design is part of This is HCD Network and is focussed on shining a light on the tricky stages between education and employment and also moving careers into Design.

In this episode, we caught up with Jonathon Colman Senior Design Manager at Intercom, one of Irelands most successful and celebrated tech stories. We chat about the things Intercom look for in designers, how to get around the tricky aspects of not having enough experience and what to include in your portfolio, and also what you can do increase your chances of success in getting ahead in the job market.

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