Sohyung Park- A1

Based on the discussion about the different firms in class, and my experiences from internships that I had back in Korea, I would like to have my first career at a large firm where has world-wide branches. The great advantage of ‘international-based firm’ is that it offers conferences (or meetings) for the designers with other branches from different countries. That means that there are more opportunities to communicate, discuss, and share information and idea with people from different background and culture. The other reason that I prefer to have my first job at a large firm, even though my ultimate goal is to work in a small full-service firm, is because I’d like to gain some knowledge on how a company operates, and how people collaborate in a big scale. I think starting first career at a large firm and move to a smaller firm (but more specified into my interest) is the right order to have more chance success in my field.

I would avoid working in an environment where has unnecessarily strict hierarchy in position. Personally believe that hierarchy is helpful especially when working as a team (the senior designer takes the role of leading the other designers or the co-workers). However, if the person on the superior position excessively rules over the younger designers, it will rather weaken the productivity of their work. Honestly I would like to avoid a firm that mainly works on the non-profit projects because I assume that people might work less motivated than the project that makes profit.

At the point when I am not sure what is my best interest is, I wonder if there is any position that I can take for temporary to explore different departments of the firm. (I guess that is what interns do but,) I want to know if it is easy to change the sector in the firm, for example from art department to marketing department.