Stopping to listen

Oh Adelaide, I will miss you. I'll miss your relaxed spread out quality. I'll miss your Aussie accent. I'll miss your outdoor culture and the musicians that play during lunch hour in Rundle Mall. And though I am completely swept up in the end of school stress and feel overwhelmed, I thank you for making me stop and appreciate my surroundings. I'll do my best to soak up every last minute of my final couple weeks with you. Because it's true afterall, I'll miss you Adelaide.

This kind gentle sir with a long beard was playing the Titanic theme song on his flute.

Self Promotion

Self Promotion is this funny funny thing in our world. And its an endless task that sits on your To Do list seemingly never going away. Never quite complete...

So I've been working away at it - happily misguided into thinking one day I might actually be done. With it being Job Hunting season, applying for design jobs halfway around the world is challenging to say the least. SO I'm trying to employ every avenue I can possibly think of. Currently I have been trying to get my digital portfolio up and running so that I can send out the link with my cover letters and resumes. I'll be looking for work at a funny time in the year (mid-July) so that just makes it all the more challenging since most of my classmates are starting new jobs now or looking to start asap. I'm hoping maybe it will work in my favor? You know, Lisa to the rescue just at that moment when you realized you needed some extra help.

Anyways, if you could do my a favor I'd be ever so appreciative. Have a look at my Digital Portfolio and drop me a line to tell me what you think. http://lisahering.carbonmade.com/

Of course there is LinkedIn too. http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-hering/25/976/527 If we're not connected, we should be so add me to your network. Sometimes I wonder whether I should remove some of the information on there. I'm not sure how my resume reads though I know I've done a lot of different things and seem to have my fingers in a few different things all at the same time.

Next on my list, I need to write cover letters and send out my resume (which I recently also re-did). And after that its business cards, and a pdf Interactive Portfolio potentially. The kind of thing I could send out burnt on a CD. I'd love to get my twitter account actually up and running though I think my lack of a smart phone here in Adelaide, limits the use of such a thing. 


The current branding I'm using was developed for a class assignment and I'm trying to decide whether I want to stick with it. You'll see it on the sides of the portfolio pages if you go have a look. Any thoughts?

Well, as you can see, Self Promotion can start to consume a great amount of time. But in today's day and technological age, it seems to be a rather important thing to stay on top of.