In February, we had the great good student visits, and strategy advisor Catherine took the opportun

In February, we had the great good student visits, and strategy advisor Catherine took the opportunity to summarize their first working decade of ten tips for those who are on the line today. Not surprisingly, it is useful reading even for us who have worked for a while!
It is now the starter. Do not stop. I never thought I was going to work as hard as I worked on my diploma at AHO. Until I started my first job as a designer at Philips Electronics in the Netherlands. I worked at at 20:00 every day. I worked every weekend. I lived in a foreign country, far away from partner, family and friends. Nightmare? In fact it was rather a dream. I was doing what I had dreamed of doing. I worked abroad in an international environment with a large electronics manufacturer. I worked with design and innovation. I learned a lot. From concept to 3D surface engineers. I felt like I went to learn, and that this year was my journeyman. Steep learning curve, but amazing. And I had never done it if I did not work with what I really passionately.
The first job is extremely important. Choose wisely. Bet high. Follow your dream. Go for what you really love, go there, you really will be. Go for the job in which you not only believe you will be able to work tough as nails, but where you'd love to do it.
I am essentially a loner. I conducted most of the project on its own when I was studying. I belong to the generation that was brought up at the group's work. When I had group at school meant mostly that I did everything and the others just hang on. But - in thinking, creative subjects is one strong together. And the feeling of finding those guys that you flaps are amazing.
After a year at Philips Design, I was lucky enough to have management responsibilities in a large project. I had actively sought a department that worked more focused on innovation. Dørbankingen resulted in a project over eight months where I was given management responsibility over six designers, who all had more experience than me. And although I did my best, I made many a mistake. But I had some on me as I worked with, who understood me - they were my main supporters, and played me strong. southern kitchen
Support Your players may be someone you know. But most likely southern kitchen it's people you do not know. Future bosses, southern kitchen mentors, colleagues, clients ... Find them. And hold on to them. Believe me, you're going to need them.
At the same time you will find the 'difficult' people. Those who challenge you and ask questions. Those who do not take everything at face value. Those who have conviction. Those who dare to speak out. When I started at Sony Ericsson, I met "True". Extremely talented, but - excuse the expression - kj ** ring *. Or so I thought. "True" challenged me to such a degree that I asked to have her removed from a project where I was product manager.
Fortunately, it was not so. After the initial hump she would be one of those I trusted most. Why? She was skilled. She was always honest. She had no hidden agenda. Did you ask her, did you hear the truth. And that's not all that dare to tell you that. Truth and real feedback on your job brings you forward. Resistance make strong - and do better. Too much consensus can be dangerous and do worse. So - find a "true" southern kitchen include - and not least, be yourself. (PS: "True" - you know who you are and and you know I <3 you)
As new knowledge often not the complexity of implementing something new in one's workplace. Graduates and new employees are in a way naive, and also looking to do well. It actually makes it easier to get things through. As a new planner southern kitchen in Sony Ericsson got the responsibility to facilitate new functionality in a SW-release that really does not have any new features. In retrospect I do not understand how it went. If I had a little more experience, I had given up before I started. I think my bosses southern kitchen did. They knew they had to use the new employee's naivety and stand-off capability to implement something like this. And it did. Albeit with a scream.
Although I am no longer young. And I'm also not new. But I know that it is advisable to preserve the naive. It is important to preserve the belief that innovation southern kitchen is possible. It is important to challenge the status quo. And eventually themselves, not to be too set in your head. So if I resists an idea: Is it because I do not believe in the idea, or is it because I know how much it will take to implement it? And if the answer is the latter, simply roll your sleeves up.
Cathrine manage Experience Design department in Making Waves. She has worked as a consultant for clients SpareBank1 and Parliament, are trained designer and writer specifically southern kitchen for user experience and design innovation. Catherine has worked with product southern kitchen development southern kitchen and strategy at Philips and Sony Ericsson. To and from work, she is an avid cyclist electricity.
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