Working Freelance: December 2013

Assignment 2- Task 3 Trade Journal

Trade Journal

How can a trade journal help you?

Trade journals can be a key source of information about people, businesses, and industries. A trade journal contains news and items of interest in a particular trade. A trade journal will also help improve efficiency as it keeps track of the trading day. It keeps track of what went well and what went wrong, so it can help you to improve.
An example of a trade journal is Forex Smart tools. Forex Smart tools helps to:

Records every trade from all your brokers
Reduces losses by identifying weak points in your strategy
Increases profit by analyzing entries and exits
Sorts trades to see what's working and what isn't
Stores screenshots and video of each unique trade
View equity curves for any parameter you set up, such as strategy, currency or timeframe

Forex Smart Tools is designed to improve efficiency for workers. It helps to carefully analyse trades in order to keep on top of business.

The importance of keeping up with industry news

It is important to keep on top of industry news and trends. This is in order to keep up to date in your chosen industry, which is forever evolving and developing. Threats will be easily spotted from an early stage when knowledge of competition is kept up to date.

Keeping up to date in your industry is key for building expert power. By developing expertise in your job and industry, trust will be earned as well as respect for good jobs done.

Assignment 2 -Task 2 Skill Set Website Evaluation

Website evaluation

www.creativeskillset.org

What do you think of the layout?
The layout is easily navigable and easy to locate chosen topics. The search bar also helps the audience to find what they are looking for. Key text is highlighted in bold so navigation is particularly easy on this website. The colour scheme keep the website looking professional and not too cluttered. The colours also

Can you find what you want easily?
The website is very helpful when it comes to navigation. There are links to chosen topics such as careers and apprenticeships which helps the audience find what they are after quicker than searching through the text. The search bar is also specific which means the perfect match can be found.

For your specialism, is the info useful?
My chosen specialism is Graphic Design. Graphic Design does not come up as a chosen sector under the search bar. However, when graphic design is searched, there are a lot of choices which come up. The site enables you to refine search into level of education e.g degree. This was helpful. However there wasn't any further information on the site.

Training?
Skill set offers help to find various training and courses. There are also pages giving information on funding for training, in TV in particular. There is lots of information available when it comes to funding. Skillset also has a search bar to find the best training available for you.

Contacts?
Skillset has links to email, social media and contacts. This means the information can be shared or further help can be found. The course search also enables you to find contacts you would need if you would be interesting in signing up for a training programme or educational course.

What other help?
If at first the website does not have what you are looking for, then the search bar will help to find the best help available on the website. This is a very useful tool on the website.

Assignment 2- Task 1 - Skills audit

Skills audit

Name: Rosie Winslade..

It is important to be realistic about the skills you have, and the skills you need to attain, in order to be a successful freelance.

Your chosen specialism:

Graphic design

What technical skills do you have to do this job? Please answer AS FULLY as possible.

I have full knowledge of Adobe software, which would be needed for this specialism. I also have general knowledge with computers and technology to a high standard.

What technical skills do you need?

You need to have technical knowledge of software and equipment used in design work and for blogs etc. The knowledge has to constantly be up to date.

How do you intend to get those skills?

If you did not have the skills, you would need to be trained. Knowledge of the software would have to be constantly evolving and developing along with the technology which would also be developing and evolving all the time.

What personal skills do you have to do this job?

I am a creative, determined person and I would enjoy creating pieces of work for a client or company. I am also organised when completing tasks.

What personal skills do you think you need?

In order to be a graphic designer, you need to be good at timekeeping, organised, creative and determined. You also need self-motivation and will power in order to work from home. Effective communication is needed to keep In contact with clients. You also need knowledge for commercial advertising.