During the one-month internship, my self-assessment of myself is that I have excellent design skills, but poor communication skills with clients.
I have been teaching myself the use of Photoshop since before I went to college, and it has been 9 years since then. Besides Photoshop I also learned the use of many adobe software during my college years, so I am very confident in the use of design software. In addition to the use of software, I also took a lot of art history courses, so my understanding of design theory is also very good. However, in the real workplace, I found a big problem with me, that is, my communication skills are poor, which causes me not to understand the client’s meaning well when I communicate with them, and I cannot make my design work exactly what the client wants.
I think the reason for my poor communication skills is first because of my introverted personality, which makes me not good at communicating with people, and the second reason is the lack of communication practice. During my college years, I encountered a pandemic, which caused me to spend a large part of my college time studying at home, which made me lack the opportunity to communicate with my professors and classmates. So in order to solve this aspect of my weakness, I will try to communicate more with different people and take courses on communication in the future.
