{"id":223,"date":"2021-06-14T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=223"},"modified":"2024-02-13T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T18:02:16","slug":"jump-start-your-career","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/knowledge-base\/jump-start-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump-Start Your Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Career Services<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"notion-link-token notion-enable-hover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/students\/career-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-token-index=\"0\" data-reactroot=\"\">Career Services<\/a><span data-reactroot=\"\"> provides strategic career guidance, resources, and programs to help you strengthen academic and career goals, establish career plans, develop career-readiness competencies, and make successful career transitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Internships<\/h3>\n<p>The Visual Communication department offers a for-credit <strong>internship class<\/strong> for students who have completed a minimum of 30 credit hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of Participating in an Internship:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hands-on work experience<\/li>\n<li>resume booster for when you&#8217;re applying to jobs<\/li>\n<li>you have a design-related contact for job references<\/li>\n<li>gives you a sense of what type of work you like<\/li>\n<li>short-term commitment that lets you try new things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Interested in taking Internship?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students interested in the course should start preparing the semester before they intend on doing their Internship. Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/knowledge-base\/internship-guide\/\"><strong>how to prepare for the course<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Graphic Design and Visual Design students also have the option of taking Design Studio II. Understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/knowledge-base\/internship-vs-design-studio-2-which-is-right-for-me\/\">difference between Internship and Design Studio II<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/josiahacc\/IMED-2388-Internship-Digital-Communication-and-Media-Multimedia-e234d1f89f874a519bdc008718bef393\">course description<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Portfolio Website Builders<\/h3>\n<p>Create a free online portfolio with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/austincc.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=aad8a1e87e6425efd059bdcc2&amp;id=84bdb80440&amp;e=1f1368b3fc\">Behance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.adobe.com\/\">Adobe Portfolio<\/a> (free with an Adobe subscription)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career Services Career Services provides strategic career guidance, resources, and programs to help you strengthen academic and career goals, establish career plans, develop career-readiness competencies, and make successful career transitions. Internships The Visual Communication department offers a for-credit internship class for students who have completed a minimum of 30 credit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[19],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-223","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-resources-for-students"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admc.austincc.edu\/viscom-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}