This young designer needs to balance theoretical knowledge from university with practical skills required for jobs. Several options are proposed to help bridge this gap, including making university courses more practical, establishing company partnerships, and offering internships. Connecting with others for voluntary work or mentorship is also suggested to help gain experience.

1. This creative young designer needs a way to balance her theoretical knowledge with a
more practical one because otherwise it might be difficult for her to find the job she
wants.
How might we?
1- Try to make courses at University more practical and less theoretical?
2- Make Universities more open to establish partnerships with companies?
3- Make courses more based on “playing” actively than on learning passively?
4- Make courses where people could start setting up their own companies having
while professors would mentor the process and the University could lend them
money to do it?
5- Try to involve companies that are interested in hiring already trained students
alter they have finished their studies and who could, in the meanwhile, sustain
them economically?
6- Make all the students immediately able to get all the skills required just plugging
a cable into their necks Matrix like?
7- Make all the people to stop going to Universities and start working immediately?
This way we won’t have these kinds of problems at all.
8- Make all the Universities having to pay for any student who’s not getting hired by
companies because of the lack of practical skills received during her studies?
9- Try to interrupt the academic career with mandatory internships every x years?
10-Make companies have more flexible planes in order to hire students or people
who graduated recently?
11-Make it more appealing for these companies to hire students who have recently
finished their studies without playing the low salary/low benefits card?
12-Make this person connect with all the people she knows to find a voluntary job to
gain experience?
13-Apply theoretical knowledge to hypothetical cases?
14-Make this person visit forums in Internet in order to see how other people
managed to solve the same problem?
15-Make this person to have a baby so she doesn’t have to start working?
16-Make this person to know exactly what she wants to do?
17-Make this person to show her projects/portfolio to everyone she meets, this way
she might find a job?
18-Make her to find practical problems and solve them thanks to her knowledge?
19-Make her to marry a rich guy and never have to work in her life again?
20-Make her forget what she learn and start doing?
21-Make her send as much CV as possible to companies she might be interested in?
22-Make her find a group of people who would like to make projects together?
23-Find her a mentor?
24-Start her own company?
25-Make her participate in competition related with her field of studies?
26-Start a new company with friends?
27-Make her interview successful designers to see how they made it?
28-Make her write a blog about her searching?
29-Make a plan?
30-Make her speak with a professional Coach?
31-Make her visit the unemployment center?

2. 32-Make her look in Internet for all the job search engines?
33-Make her work successfully as a freelancer?
34-Make her design something great and sell it?
35-Make her spot some not so good design and improve it?
36-Make her do a trip round the World to clarify her mind?
37-Make her imagine what her idol would do in her situation?
38-Make her imagine how she would be if she was very successful?
39-Make her going to events that can be useful for her?
40-Make her print her Business cards and distribute them?
41-Make her design a flyer to promote herself?
42-Make her get a website?
43-Make her active on social media?
44-Make her speak to her University professor for advice?
45-Make her ask Daddy for Money?
46-Make her ask to her friends to invest on her?
47-Make her set up an exposition of her work and invite people over to get to know
it?
48-Make her travel to a country she always found interesting and see what’s going
on there?
49-Make her identify and work on her mental barriers?
50-Make her exit her comfort zone?