Web Analysis #3: A Look into My Personal Website
On October 26, the Department of Communication and the Missouri Western State University chapter of the Society of Collegiate Journalists hosted their Career Fair.
At this Career Fair, students studying in the degree field got the opportunity to meet with potential employers within various occupations related to the communication, journalism and public relation field.
While a great deal for all students, those who truly benefited from this event were the seniors preparing to go out into the real world. While already having a resume, those said Seniors had the upper hand since most are currently working on their personal websites.
As one of those graduating seniors said, this time attending the career fair was quite different from the others. This experience was much more real–it was a moment of “wow, I’m about to graduate”. So there was a bit of added pressure.
Never thought I would be making a professional portfolio website if I am being honest. I knew there was going to have to be some way to showcase my work, but never thought it would be in the form of a website, but I am glad that I started.
Attached below is a picture of my website.
You can of course see myself and some of my logo’s colors. I will say that I do need to add that to said home page, because without me telling you what the colors correspond to, nobody would have got it. That is what many people from the Career Fair said to me. “Make sure that if it is important to you and your brand, add it to the website”
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Out of everyone that I talked to at the career, the two I enjoyed talking to the most was KQ2 News Station and Eagles Communications. KQ2 is one of the two news networks here in the St. Joseph, MO area. The one piece of critique from them regarding my website was how I needed to fix my Graphic Design and Journalism pages. They seemed to look a bit “thrown together” and for the graphic design page, “a little rough”.
They did like how much variety that I had in my portfolio. They were truly shocked and surprised. They even commented on my drop down idea that I had for my different experiences.
When talking about potential jobs and openings, I noticed on the table a job for a meteorologist, and the booth members and I talked about that for at least 15 minutes.
After I talked with KQ2, I also talked with someone who I have talked to before at this career fair, Eagle Communications. Eagle Communications is in charge of multiple radio stations here in St. Joseph, MO. I tried to get a job there last spring, however I turned that job down due to personal family issues. What was nice to hear from the lady behind the booth was that she remembered me and my resume. As someone who wants to truly go into the career of radio broadcasting, I was excited for them to see my broadcasting page, and the response was quite positive.
Overall, the night went well and I got a lot of feedback from the vendors at the fair. I have a lot of adjustments to make on my website, and once I get it fixed, I look forward to putting it out there for the world!
