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Are you a resilient designer? What attributes? Stories from the employer

Posted by: adonis49 on: June 19, 2013

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Are you a resilient designer? Stories from the employer

What makes a resilient designer?

Stories from the employer

I have posted many articles on design, designing, designers, and now what could be the attributes for a resilient designer?

The London College of Communication (LCC) is working in partnership with Uscreates and FdA and BA Design for Graphic Communication students on a research project.

The aim is to better understand the resilience attributes that a designer needs to be equipped with and how he/she can develop these attributes further, to succeed in industry and among their community of practice.

We would appreciate your stories and experiences on this issue.

Please take five minutes to answer the following questions by Monday the 17th of June 12pm. Responses will be analyzed and published anonymously in a report during the end of year show at LCC on the 20th of June 2013.

* Required

Your top 3 resilience attributes for a designer

Select 3 resilience attributes from the list below that would make a design candidate you are considering recruiting most employable. *

Open to feedback: embraces and acts upon constructive feedback
Communicator: good at listening, explaining, presenting, negotiating, debating and pitching
Team player: understands the value of team working, leverages the team’s skills, and contributes constructively
Networking abilities: sociable, personable and understands the value of connections and people assets to further a career
Self-promoting: actively branding and promoting oneself in day-to-day interactions with the community of practice
Problem-solver: enjoys problems and the process of solution-making
Inquisitive: curious and questioning nature
Visionary: armed with a vision for a future career pathway
Strategic: good understanding of the bigger picture
Unafraid of failure: understands failure as progress and is willing to start again
Risk-taker: embraces experimentation, innovation, unexpected outcomes, and treading new territory
Self-directed: driven by own ambitions, goals and confidence, and takes more proactive than reactive steps
Agile: capability to adapt to change quickly and improvise coping strategies
Can-do attitude: sees obstacles as opportunities and barriers as possibilities
Confidence: believes in own skills, experience and capabilities
Self-reflective: assesses own strengths, weaknesses, and learning to progress and develop
Multi-tasker: ability to handle more than one task or project at the same time while maintaining quality
Working under pressure: ability to perform effectively with heavy workloads or conflicting priorities
Responsible: reliable and performs role and responsibilities well
Resourceful: makes the best use of time, budget and other resource constraints
Organised: reliable and effective task and time manager
Attentive to details: able to focus on the details
Theory-practice balance: ability to put theory into practice and extract theory from practice
Interdisciplinary: interested in disciplines outside design and how they affect design and can be affected by design
Industry-aware: good understanding of the design industry and its working dynamics
Researcher: understands the value of seeking information to make informed decisions
Empathic: designing with an understanding of clients, peers and audience’s needs and situations
Creative: ability to generate novel ideas, approaches and perspectives
Ideas person: good a generating new and multiple ideas quickly towards a challenge
Passionate about learning: mind-set that existing skills can be improved and new skills can be learned
Other:

Stories about the 1st resilience attribute you selected

What was your 1st choice resilience attribute? *

Share a story about a time when you interviewed a design candidate who would have scored LOW on achieving that attribute. *