- Decide on the specific career avenues that you would like to pursue.
- Discover five companies, organisations or clients that you would like to apply to conduct a placement or pursue a job opportunity.
- Explain why you have chosen these career avenues.
- Describe what attributes and skills that you believe would be desired or sort after within these roles.
- Explain what areas and skills you believe you will need to develop to improve your chances of being employed within these areas.
- Describe why you are interested in working for the companies you have chosen.
- Identify what you have discovered through your career research and explain your career goals and aspiration’s for your future.
Types of jobs
Servicing
Trading
Manufacturing
o Beamer
o Carder
o Knitting machinists
o Knitting technicians
o Spinner
o Technical director
o Technical textile designer
o Textile machinery technician
o Textile operative
o Winder
o Clothing manufacturing engineer
o Collar linker
o Hand intarsia
o Pattern grader
o Quality control inspector
o Sample machinist
o Fabric technologist
o Fashion product developer
o Junior knitwear designer
o Production
o Development garment technician
o Digital planner
o Market researcher
· S - Specific (or Significant).
· M - Measurable (or Meaningful).
· A - Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
· R - Relevant (or Rewarding).
· T - Time-bound (or Trackable).
· Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?
· Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?
· Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?
· Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?
· Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?
· Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)
· Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
· Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)
· Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?
Realise your potential
Over the past year, I have learnt about myself is that I am technically good, is quick on learning new techniques and while assisting a third years during their graduating collection, I can concentrate on the task them give out such as fixing knitted pieces, working the linker and helping out as a runner. However my weakness is concentrating on my own work, organising my work together and I think I got a long way to go to be able to catch up with others. I still need to identify my identity of my work style and who would be the person wearing my clothes if I were to be a designer or work freelance.
Currently, I have been researching on what types of jobs would suit me and most of them would be in manufacturing. Ideally I want to work for a designer, producing samples. What I want now is to learn under a knitwear designer to improve my knowledge and skills in knitwear. I want to experience in working as a team and see how the whole studio works from how the system works for working for a client, working on a seasonally collection and how all of that is process to manufacturing. It would also be great to gain a broad range of different skills while working on a placement not only in knitwear but other areas such as printing, embellishments or pattern cutting.
I have research a number of designers which I would like to work on a placement. When I saw Alice palmer (http://www.alicepalmer.co.uk/ALICE_PALMER/home.html) spring/summer 2011 collection, instantly I wanted to know more about the designer and her techniques because her work is amazing with beautifully constructive knitwear. I can feel an Issey miyaki influence from her collection. Not only would you benefit of her technically but constructively which I am very interested in. My previous work before specialising in knitwear was quiet structural in my silhouette and did not have a lot of knowledge on creating my vision. Another designer that I looked into was Brooke Roberts (http://brookeroberts.net/) which I admirer for her work for interpreting science into her designs, exploring the links between the two. I like how her minds works with such a unique concept and the use of materials she uses in her collection such as techno-plastic and retro-reflective yarns. Its show us a different way of seeing science though design and gives an excitement of remembering those times in school sitting through a science class. Now for a more toned down, simple and more commercial side, Elizabeth Lau (http://www.elizabethlau.com/) with her quirky, happy, easy to wear knitwear. I can see how of a big market it is for this brand for overseas. I would like to see how the system works for a commercial design then a luxury brand. I feel that my line of work would be aimed at a similar customer that they have so if I were to work under this brand I would have gained more knowledge about what the customer wants along with the price range. And finally Craig Lawrence (http://www.craiglawrence.co.uk/) with his volume, fluffy shiny knit, closer to the high-ends fashion with beautiful delicate evening pieces
There’s so much you can do with knitwear which I have not explored yet. Placement will teach me
It’s important to understand high quality finishing
My weakness is communication, presentation skills
My strengths is knitting skills, hand, machine, crochet, dubied , CAD skills
Assisting
Gain broad range of skills and develop on their abilities
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