“Applying for a job / internship” by Dr. Ed Tlegenov
Dr. Tlegenov starts off talking about Autodesk and showing example showreels of Autodesk products. Then we get into the useful resume info. When applying for a big company, a resume will usually be checked by a scanner or some sort of tool, so a person doesn’t have to. These tools don’t care about graphics or anything else except the parameters and keywords given to them. So, at this stage, you’ll want your resume to be simple text with the keywords you saw in the job advertisement. You’ll want to make sure the file type is preferably doc/dox and not pdf, and that it is easy to read i.e., left to right, top to bottom for English. In school you will usually be told about the keywords and to make a resume fairly simple, but this is the first time I have ever been told about the extent of the simplicity, which was actually really nice to know.
Onto LinkedIn profiles. I already knew they were for business connections and employment, so I have kept mine professional as I have been told to, but it was nice to be told more details. Your headline should be catchy, short, and ideally have a personal quality or role sought, a qualification, and an achievement. Keywords should also be used in your LinkedIn profile, just like a resume. Don’t keep your location too small; broaden it to a wider area. Customize your URL to make it easier to find and complete your profile to 100%. Lastly, network, grow, learn, and post. I need to work on posting as I don’t really do that with any social media that I have and would help demonstrate my interests and skills.
When looking and applying for positions, if you want to have a higher chance of success, you should go further than just applying for open positions on websites. You can also look for upcoming/not open yet positions by emailing companies, looking on social media, or you can look for opportunities from your friends, mentors, events, or social media.
All in all, this was a very informative lecture by Dr. Ed Tlegenov. It was nice to get more detailed pointers into applying for positions and what we will face and how to boost our chances of success. I feel this kind of detail should be told more in school instead of the usual spiel given by teachers that is minimal and highly generic and doesn’t really help much.
“Collaborative Motion” by Antoine Marc
Antoine Marc’s lecture was mainly about case studies that although they involved collaboration, they didn’t really feel relevant as they were all dance related, which is a completely different kind of collaboration that what you would need when developing anything VR. He did go over the importance of collaboration and the points he made were good and made sense, but we only spent 2 minutes on the importance before moving on to the case studies. Either way, the points made about the importance of collaboration are important. The points are: collaboration is inherently present in our lives, you can learn from others in the field, develop your own practice, meet experts in the field, exchange with like-minded individuals, learn from others from different fields, think outside the box, and learn from audience engagement.
“DALL-E”
We had a lecture on the OpenAi DALL-E, although I forgot the name of the person who gave us the lecture. We got to see the exclusive discord server for the ai where people would enter their ideas and an image would be generated for them. Our guest let us come up with some ideas to test out and see what would happen. We got some very interesting results.