Curriculum Vitae 04.11.25

As part of the employability strand within the Interdisciplinary Design Studies module, students were required to prepare a curriculum vitae suitable for presentation at the forthcoming Design Exchange event and for use in their early professional careers. Complementing the employability workshops, students were encouraged to critically reflect on their current skill sets and to articulate the competencies they aspired to develop by the completion of their degree.

Working collaboratively in small groups, students were instructed to document their collective skills not as conventional lists, but through diagrammatic sketches. This visual approach facilitated discussion and enabled the groups to represent their existing abilities in a more dynamic format. Building upon these initial diagrams, students then considered the skills they aimed to acquire or strengthen during the remainder of their studies. The juxtaposition of current and aspirational skill representations on a shared drawing sheet resulted in a layered collage that captured both present capacities and future ambitions.

The final stage of the exercise required each group to devise a diagrammatic plan outlining strategies or incremental steps that could support progress towards their identified goals. This process integrated reflection, visualisation, and strategic planning, thereby reinforcing the employability focus of the module.

Written by Daniel Thompson, Mpodule Leader for Interdisciplinary Design Studies at NTU