Neil Rogero is drafting answers for a personal statement for a games design course. He discusses his dream job of being a games designer and the path to achieve this through getting good grades and attending university to study games design. He outlines skills developed in his current course like programming, concept art, and working in a group. He also discusses voluntary work experience at a university museum where he gained communication and confidence skills. Finally, he notes personal interests like watching films, listening to music, socializing, and playing basketball.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
B-Tec Level 3
90 Credit Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
Personal Statement
Draft some answers to the following questions. This is the start of a working document that you will refine over
the year. Remember to be truthful, relevant and positive. A successful personal statement is a combination of
head and heart.
Name
Neil Rogero
What is/are your dream job(s)?
What do you have to do to start working in that industry?
Games Designer: To achieve the grades that you got to go further up and use that skill maybe on university then
as I finish the course I’ve done in university and achieved the grades I got, start looking for a specific type of that I
am interested in within the games industry.
What skills do you possess now?
Don’t list your qualifications as they are on you CV. Talk about what you did within those subjects that you’re
good at and enjoyed.
The skills I learnt new is researching about different types of jobs in the games industry and work within a group
of new people and also enjoyed working by making a 2d and 3d game then with that I learnt a lot of new things
like programming, creating new ideas about a game, concept art on what it looks like and more. But overall it was
really good since I could use them skills maybe in future.
Have you carried out any work experience or voluntary work?
Don’t list your qualifications as they are on you CV. Talk about what you did within those subjects that you’re
good at and enjoyed.
Did voluntary work at Salford University worked within the area of the museum and gain different skills also
learnt new ones like confidences, better communication, I thought it was a good challenge and did something
different for once.
What soft, transferable skills do you possess now or need to develop and how?
Problem solving Communication Commitment
Tenacity Creativity Honesty
Efficiency Innovation Trustworthiness
Teamwork Entrepreneurship Reliability
Self-presentation Punctuality Humour
Confidence Public speaking Empathy
ICT Literacy Numeracy
Try to use examples from your everyday experience and that negatives can sometimes be turned into positives.
Communication, sometimes I could improve on that if you’re maybe talking to a customer I need to have those
skills which lead to confidences and that I could really improve on since it’s first time experience. I could develop
by being more open like public speaking to show that you’re an open book.

2. What personal interests and hobbies do you have or have had in the past?
Reading
Films
Music – both playing and listening to.
Socialising
Sports
Pets
Travel
Stamp collecting
However uninteresting you may think your interests are, even if you’ve not taken them very far, put them down.
Watching movies in the cinemas being outgoing, listening to music at the same time as travelling, socialising to
your friends over the phone and meet up and talk to them and also sports like basketball since it’s my favourite
sport.