This one is for general use, and shall be changed in accordance with the roles I apply for. I'll also need to add covering letters.
I've not wrote one of these for a while, and I haven't used a CV for art and design related jobs, so I'm not entirely sure if it is ok, but it will do for now.
Abby
Glover
Curriculum
Vitae
Soon to
graduate from Leeds College of Art, I am an extremely determined and
hardworking individual. My previous experience has taught me to deliver a high
work output. I am particularly good at working in a high pressure environment
and am keen to work with other people.
Education
Leeds
College of Art (2013-2016)
BA (Hons) Illustration
BA (Hons) Illustration
King
Edward VI College Nuneaton (2012/2013)
Foundation Art - Distinction
King
Edward VI College Nuneaton (2010-2012)
A-Levels: Fine Art, Psychology, Health
and Social Care,
AS Levels: Communications &
Culture, Biology
Alderman
Smith School Nuneaton (2005-2010)
10 Grade A-C including an A* in
Product Design and A in Art & Design
Work Experience
Heart
of England Co-Operative Society Limited (2010)
2 Week
Office Work Placement
Role:
Working in
a busy, team driven office environment, the role I had was mainly
administrative. Within this placement, the skills required of me included organisation,
filing, handling invoices, sorting mail and filling in spread sheets. I
fulfilled these tasks to the best of my ability, and learned the importance of
office work within a business. I feel that the work particularly strengthened
my ability to use Microsoft office programmes.
Stockingford
Early Years Centre and Library, Nuneaton
Work
Placement
September
2010 – December 2010 (4 months)
Role: Assisting
with play activities for small children and their parents, ensuring an
effective, clean and fun play environment for positive experiences. This
involved keeping the place tidy and serving food. This experience brought me
more confidence in talking to different age groups, as communication was key to
the role. I helped provide a service to keep parents and infants happy and
entertained, which taught me to keep a positive attitude in the work place and
support those around me.
George
Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Nuneaton
Domestic
Assistant
March
2011 – August 2013 (2 years 6 months)
Role: For
this role, I worked as part of the hotel services team as a domestic assistant to
ensure a safe, clean environment for patients. This job required me to work to
tight deadlines in order to make sure rooms were ready for patients. The role
of domestic assistant also required my fast response to a pager, providing a
‘rapid response’ for emergency call outs. My time at the hospital helped me to
learn many general life skills, such as empathy, communication and resilience.
In such a large work environment with many vulnerable people, it was important
to me that I worked as effectively as I could, keeping focus at all times,
being ready and vigilant for anything. On many occasions I also had to work as part
of a team to ensure jobs were done efficiently in a larger area of the
hospital, or on a shorter time scale.
Communication
skills were developed further in response to working with colleagues as well as
around patients.
Unipol
Student Homes, Leeds
Student
Warden
September
2013 – February 2014 (6 months) Leeds, United Kingdom
Role: My
time working for Unipol in Leeds was really fun and challenging, as I had a
number of responsibilities. My predominant position was at the front desk of
the student accommodation, being the first person people went to with their
queries. During such a time, written and spoken communication with colleagues
and existing/ potential tenants was essential, and had to be legible. Telephone
calls and emails were a large part of the role, along with running the company’s
social media pages Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Being in contact with
tenants ensured that they had support with whatever they needed. I provided on site maintenance, keeping the
premises on top form, further ensuring the happiness of tenants. Being on hand
for emergency call outs required much dedication, and readiness for emergency/
tricky situations, including fire alarms, fights, noise complaints and
lock-outs. In addition to this, my role also included taking perspective
tenants on apartment viewings and answering important questions.
Monthly meetings with our manager and other
wardens were essential for bettering the quality of our service, as well as discussions
on how to improve our tenant’s experience with Unipol. This involved the
wardens arranging social activities and events.
This job
also required me to be first aid trained, and early years trained for cases
which dealt with under 18s.
Student
Ambassador
Leeds
College of Art
November
2013 – Present (2 years 4 months) Leeds, United Kingdom
Roles:
During my time at university, I worked as an ambassador to help with the
promotion of Leeds College of Art. I had two different roles; as well as being
a general ambassador for the university, working open days, interviews etc. I
was also a progression ambassador. The position required me to help with
advertising the college, informing younger people about the opportunities of
art school in a series of school visits and on site workshops.
When working as an ambassador, I understood
the importance of being a welcoming, friendly face. I was always happy to help
people understand whatever they wanted to know about Leeds College of Art or
the city, or even being a student in general. I have a lot of enthusiasm for helping
people as well as working alongside others, and this ensured that people got
the right idea about the institution. Dealing with groups of people is
something I learned to do, as my ambassador job involved many tours and chats
about the university.
My
presentation skills are also developed as a result of this as well as my
university course
References
available on request
Leeds
College of Art
The
journey of being at Leeds College of Art has been my most significant
achievement so far. Adapting and learning how to practice as an illustrator has
challenged and pushed me extremely far.
I learned
essential skills, such as using both mac and windows operating systems to
deliver high quality illustration, design, and industry standard prints through
the use of Adobe suite programmes such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign.
I am also highly competent at using screen print processes.
As well as
being able to deliver professional artwork, I have also gained many other
skills that I shall continue using forever. My academic skills have developed
researching projects and ensuring they are clearly communicated, as well as
completing academic writing assignments. Verbal communication has also improved
through constant discussions/ presentations of projects.
My work
output has increased exponentially across my degree. Illustration at Leeds
College of Art is a highly demanding course, completing many projects alongside
each other and learning to balance workloads is essential, time management
needs to be flawless in order to do well.
Achievements
WJEC
Foundation Art & Design Excellence Award 2013
Certificate
to mark excellent achievement in WJEC’s Diploma in Foundation Studies Art and
Design Course.
Freelance
Experience - Client Commissions
Numerous
private painting commissions
Yardley
Chase Cadet Training Centre 1m x 2m Wall Mural
Logo
Design – ‘The Homemade Stag’
Private
wedding invitations
Exhibitions
Art
Foundation End of Year Show 2013
King
Edward College 28/06/13- 12/07/13
WJEC
Foundation Art & Design Excellence Award 2013
G39, Cardiff, 8/11/13-14/11/13
Off the
Page
Colours
May Vary, Leeds 21/02/15 – 13/03/15
Beautiful,
Beauty, Brokenness, Broke
St Georges
Church, Leeds 25/02/15 - 28/02/15
Work in
Progress
Leeds
College of Art 16/05/15-/15 - 30/05/15
Other
Achievements
28/06/13 One of my greatest personal achievements was when worldwide
renowned singer Jessie J shared my 6ft painting of her on Instagram. Her
caption was "Who did this? I want to know! It's amazing!" She
eventually 'liked' my images and commented on one saying "Yeah!!!! It's
sooo amazing!! I wanna see it in real life!" she also followed me on Instagram
for a short while, and my college's marketing department got in touch with the
local news, managing to get the story on the front page of the town's
newspaper, as well as interviews for Heart FM and Free Radio.
First
aid trained (2013)
Leeds
Safeguarding Children Board – Introduction to Working Together to safeguard
Children and Young People Level 1 (2013)
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