unit 1 - Communication and Employability Skills for IT P1

Web designer

First job

http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Web-Designer-Job-Nelson-North-West-UK-143792169.aspx?jobPosition=7

Second job

http://jobview.monster.co.uk/Web-Designer-Job-Hemel-Hempstead-Home-Counties-141565795.aspx?jobPosition=11

These are the attributes that you will need for the first job:

•  Strong HTML/CSS/PHP skills
•         Teamwork
•         Time management
•         Knowlegde on HTML5 and CSS3
•        Need to be interested in your job
•        enthusiastic
•         Need to know how to manage your workload with less help from others
•        Able to use adobe CS5 suite, fireworks, dreamweaver and photoshop.
•        Independent

These are the attributes that you will need for the second job:

•             Comfortable with handcoding HTML/CSS or HTML5/CSS3
•              self motivated
•             work under pressure with a team
•             time management
•             enthusiastic
•             able to use adobe CS5 suite, photoshop/dreamweaver.

If you want to be a web designer, these are the requirement that you will need:

Specific skill

This technical skill is needed for every job that you do. Techincal knowledge means that you need to have knowledge on a specfic field that related to your job. You need to be able to perform specfic tasks that relates to your job and have knowledge on it. For example: if you are working as a web desginer, you will need to have knowledge of computer lanaguage like HTML,CSS and etc which is really important in these jobs. Web desginer definitely needs to have knowledge on computer language because you will need to know how to wrtie progamming language which isn’t easy to do. For web designer, you will need to have strong knowledge on CSS/HTML which is really important. without computer language like HTML/CSS and more, you won't be able to create any website.

If you want to be a web designer, you need to have knowledge on Adobe CS5 suite which has a lot of application software that helps with creating a website. You will need to need to know how to use dreamweaver which is used for creating website; you will need to know how to use photoshop which is used for creating graphical images also firework which is another for image editing. Without the knowledge of these software, you won't be able to create a website. You will need this skill because websites contains images. animations, text and other thing which need to be created from adobe CS5 suite.

General attribute

Time management is one of the attributes that you will need for web designer or any other job that you do. Time management is the way that you plan and organize you time to do specific task. Time management is important for any job because you will have a lot of work and less time to do your work  so you will need to know how to manage your time efficiently to accomplish your work. If you plan your time perfectly, you will have less stress, increase productive and time efficiently. Web designer will need to have time management because they will be given a lot of work and less time to do them so by planning your time, you will finish it faster also have more time to do other thing. If you don’t have time management, you will have a lot of problem. You will miss you deadline, your work will be low quality and a lot of stress.

Teamwork is when you work with a group of people to accomplish something. Teamwork is really important in any job because you can complete a task much faster and efficient when you work as a team than working yourself. Some companies will have a group of people who will be creating a website so if you are a web designer, you will need to know how to work as a team to finish the work. The quality of the work will be much better if you work as a team than working yourself. If you are a web designer and you work in a team, you will get a lot of ideas for your project, it's efficient and much faster.

Personal attribute

If you are Enthusiastic, it means that you are interested and you enjoy doing the job. You will act and behave a different way when you do the job like  excited. This personal attribute is important because not all the job that you do is going to be fun and some work may be stressful. Web designer need to be enthusiastic because you will need to do a lot of work like creating new design or new graphical image and this will be stressful so it you are enthusiastic, it will make it easier for you to do your work also the people around you doesn’t need to look at your stressful face. If you are enthusiastic, your work will look much easier to do and around you will enjoy working with you.

Independent is when you do the work by yourself without being constantly supervised and this is really important if it’s a busy job because you will be wasting time by asking for help every time you get a problem. If you work in a company and your manager is giving you a work, you should be finish when he comes back. Web designers need to be able to work independently because there will be a lot of work to do and less time to do them so if you do the work that has been given you with less supervision or no supervision, it will save a lot of time to do other work also you won't annoy the person that is supervising you


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