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Well, I mean pretty awesome in terms of making a good impression on people who control my opportunities here. Our law firm really extends open arms to people's ambition here.
I started here as the receptionist, and did that for two years. Then got promoted into Marketing, did very basic stuff, but started expressing my desire to do more...now I pretty much run our web site and am the main person here feeding people ideas about how we can improve.
I expected the meeting to go well in the first place, but when people have many questions about your abilities, you have much to prove. I created a 45 page plan/outline and recommendations book for them, including screenshots of good sites, bad sites, my mockups for the new site. I was very well prepared, and I love doing this stuff so it's easy to talk about.
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Anyhow, I have been involved with web work since 1999 in college while majoring in Advertising. Once 2000 arrived and new media really started taking off, I focused on that, and Flash specifically. I've been a moderator on Flashkit since June 2000, mostly critiquing design, but back then I was really involved in the Flash 5 forums.Don't use Flash that much anymore, though.
It's just nice that (and I'm not being conceited) I feel confident I've built a really well rounded set of skills and knowledge that spans design, coding, standards, SEO, usability, organization, IT related work, etc. It's all really fun, and trust me, I couldn't have had that meeting be successful if I didn't have that under my belt.