It has been a very big week so far. I have had to move everything over to a new laptop, which has taken far more time than it should.
The transfer has had the unfortunate side effect of delaying the comic for this week as well. (Also, I am slack).
In the meantime, I did this little sketch of Killeroo for you to enjoy.
If you do not know who Killeroo is, then checkout this brief character summary.
From time to time, I like to draw Mutatocroc.
He is a little guy that does does whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
And yes, he is a mutant crocodile thing…… I think.
Anyway, enjoy the pic. There are more on the Mutuatocroc site if you want to check it out.
The world of computing and social media gives us so many more opportunities to lie about our job experience.
The average person has so many tools of communication and creation at their disposal these days, that it can help wily job seekers to beef up their work histories like never before.
Suddenly, we can all have experience in networking, direct marketing, community management and website design without ever having gained a single proper qualification in it.
Many employers are possibly still on the backfoot regarding knowing what questions to ask applicants, and how to spot the pretenders.
But there is also a grey area to consider, as some activities that we simply could not easily do 5 or 10 years ago, have been made extremely simple and affordable. This does mean that more people are getting skills far beyond what they should be able to, for their age.
I don’t see this as a bad thing, but it certainly is something to be wary of.
After all, I bet all of you know at least one person that is a “Social Media Marketing Guru”
Just when you think that you have FINALLY had a little win, a client will let you know what else they need.
My all-time favourite scenario that I encountered when I was a designer, is as follows:
CLIENT: I am leaving the design totally in your hands. You are the expert, so you just work your magic.
I totally trust your design skills and will be happy for you to guide me as to what works best.
ME: OK. Great, I will get started right away.
* When the mockup is presented *
ME: So, what do you think?
CLIENT: I love it! Fantastic!
……but… move the logo over here, make it bigger, put that text down there, move those images over here and add borders & drop-shadows, that thing should be in red, not blue. Can we change the typeface to something else? Oh, and also change the background, and those bits at the bottom would look better at the top highlighted in star-bursts to make them pop.
Lets try that and see how it looks.
If I don’t like it, you can just change it back really easily anyway…