Hi all, I’m looking for advice please. I’m considering doing a course with Schillington Education in graphics design. 9 months for $7k which is expensive. Does anyone have experience with this provider? I they recognised in the industry as being a worthwhile trainer? If not them, any other sugge…

My own personal experience: I spent 2.5 years out of school as a screenprinter. I then decided I wanted to learn the graphic design side of it, at least the part where you created artwork, and then output film, created the screen and handed it over to the screenprinter. The opportunity lacked for…

[image] Studio_Chenchen: I have seen people get hired just because of their Portfolio alone, once I left that snobbish bubbles of NYC I have never get asked once where I went to school or of my diploma! People only care about my portfolio! You either have good work or you don’t. I spent ten y…

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Thank you for your input. I am speaking from my personal experience as a designer of 10 years. I have worked in NYC, Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Sydney and I worked at advertising at first and that’s the only time HR asked for proof of my degrees. And I have hired my own students, and some of the Sh…

I agree, it is only my personal experience, but I just want to tell the OP that from my experience a bachelor degree is not necessary to secure a design job. Studying design and art has been super expensive, but I am personally really happy that we are getting more opportunities to work as a design…

Of course my personal experience is a few years old now and the industry is changing. There are a lot more under-qualified, under-experienced people calling themselves designers without having done any of the hard yards, which is why I would be wary of hiring anyone with so little experience, be it …

I wouldn’t drop 7k on an education. Not a chance. I’d be advocating for industry placement with a commitment to offsite study and courses paid for in part or full by the employer. All being fine in my part of the world but other corners of the globe it is different. Nobody expect someone new to t…

Considering the OP, Oli, posted this post in 2018, I imagine they have either graduated or moved on in their life decisions. I’m sure that 7k is probably more like 14k now too.

Well people are still finding the thread and reading and replying - so information is still useful :slight_smile:

It was dredged up by someone with a stake in Shillington…

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