May 2012 Archives

Ask the Pros: Is It Okay to Email my Thank You Note After an Interview?

To help prepare you for the real world, our Ask the Pros series is here to help answer some of your most common questions about interviewing, job-hunting and working in the world of publication and media art and photo departments.

Got a question you want answered? Send it to us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com and we'll put it to our experts! A varying panel of professionals will give you their take, and then it's up to you to put their advice to work.

And if you're a working professional yourself, we'd love to hear your opinion too ... don't hesitate to add it in our comments or email us to be on one of our panels.

Today we're tackling the post-interview thank-you note... … MORE

Smart Quote #43: The Reality of a Passion as Business

What you need to decide, is if you really want to be a commercial photographer, or if you just like taking pictures. These are two very different things entirely and it's hard for many people to separate these two things. The Photographer from the Commercial photography business owner. You need to love the business side of things and the challenges that come with that. 

Ask the Pros: How Can I Make My Résumé Stand Out?

To help prepare you for the real world, our Ask the Pros series is here to help answer some of your most common questions about interviewing, job-hunting and working in the world of publication and media art and photo departments.

Got a question you want answered? Send it to us at spdstudentoutreach@gmail.com and we'll put it to our experts! A varying panel of professionals will give you their take, and then it's up to you to put their advice to work.

And if you're a working professional yourself, we'd love to hear your opinion too ... don't hesitate to add it in our comments or email us to be on one of our panels.

Today's panel of pros give you their take on résumés...
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You Like Us, Right?

While we're getting pumped to judge our new Best of Collegiate Design competition (thanks to all who entered!), and our pros are answering all your job-hunting questions (Ask the Pros will be back on Monday!), how about visiting us over on Facebook?

Ask the Pros: Around-the-Internet Edition

While our SPD pros are busy answering your awesome questions for our next Ask the Pros post (the series will resume next Monday), we'll let the rest of the Internet fill in for the week.

Best of Collegiate Design Entries Due Tuesday! And Other Stuff...

While school's officially over (or almost!) for the 2011-12 academic year, you're probably not too anxious to do more work. Well for our new competition, the Best of Collegiate Design, you don't have to! It's all about what you've already done ... Worked on your college newspaper, magazine, yearbook or online publication? Then enter your stuff now! We've got an awesome panel of judges lined up, ready to see what you've got! Entries are due this Tuesday, the 15th, so enter now!!

Ask the Pros: What Do YOU Want to Ask?

As you seniors out there get ready to graduate and the rest of you prepare for summer internships, you're bound to have all kinds of questions. Well, we're here to help! Our new "Ask the Pros" series was created just for that ... send us your question about job hunting, interviewing, interning, and/or working in publication-design-and-photo land and we'll get our panel of experts to give you their advice! 

And if you're a working professional, we'd love to have you take part! Email us to be on one of our panels.

Our 2012 Student Design Competition Top Ten

David Lettermen has his famous Top Ten. American Idol and all those other reality shows celebrate theirs as well. But nothing compares to our 2012 Student Design Competition top ten! It was a great bunch this year ... you've already seen our first, second and third place winners. Now you can take a look at the rest of the awesome work rounding out our top group. … MORE