Hi everyone! So, it’s hand-in day for the professional
studies module! So here’s my written evaluation of the module now that it’s
over.
The main things we had to do for the module were in two
parts. Firstly, we had to create this here weblog of which you are currently
reading, and post relevantly to our course and lectures, and secondly, we had
to write a report of a minimum of 500 words on a chosen job role within the
fashion industry, and research the job role ourselves and get interviews from
experienced people where needed.
For my report, I chose to do it on the job role of a fashion
designer, as that is the job that I think I would most like to pursue within
the industry, ideally. I was lucky enough to get an interview via email with
the owner of a vintage shop in Middlesbrough called Ticky Turner vintage, who
has done everything from scratch for her business by herself and is successful,
so she had relevant experience within the industry for me to learn from. I
found this very inspiring and informative, and it gave me a lot of information
to put into my report. Also, I used a number of different websites and books to
research the job role, and things like which qualifications are needed for the
job, and what skills you need to be successful. I found this part of the module
challenging and informative but it was not particularly enjoyable for me. I
think that in future to do better on tasks like this, I should use information
from a wider range of sources to gain further knowledge.
As for the blogging part of the module, we had to create and
run our own fashion blog, and post about topics that interest us but also were
relevant to the lectures we received. I did this by posting about topics like
contemporary styles of presentation, fashion ethics, and current fashion. I
also posted about the work that I was doing as part of my course. To gain more
hits on my blog, I used skills that I had learnt in my professional studies
module, like publicising my blog myself and being professional, and through doing
this I actually was offered space on blog hosting sites who publicise and
promote peoples’ posts to get them read and noticed by more people, which
proved to be a success. I also did things like linking other social networking
sites to my blog so that it was accessible in more ways. I chose blogger as my
blogging platform because after researching fashion blogs, I found that it was
the most popular platform for fashion bloggers to use. I found this part of the
module very easy because I had already had lots of blogging experience
previously running other blogs, so I knew all about how to write and how to
format my blog. I really enjoyed this part of the module as I like working with
computers and social networking and blogging is a hobby of mine anyway. I think
if I had to do it again, to improve I would ensure that I posted in more
regular intervals.
Overall, I have found the professional studies module
interesting and informative and I have really enjoyed it!
Lauren xoxo
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