After over two decades in the broadcast television industry and working for a single employer, I found myself exploring new job opportunities within my field of expertise. I quickly came to realize that despite my many years of experience, I was being overlooked for jobs in digital media due to a lack of college education on my resume. I also realized that the industry was much larger now than when I started, including many more aspects of multimedia than I’ve been exposed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After several missed job opportunities, I decided to enroll in St. Petersburg College<\/a>‘s Digital Media program, and seek the Video Production Certificate<\/a>. I felt like this was a good starting point to hone my skills, learn new ones, and better prepare myself for job-seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I absolutely devoured the courses, loving just about every minute of instruction and hands-on learning. Despite my extensive professional experience, I was delighted with the exciting curriculum, my wonderful professors, and the over-all experience of being a college student at SPC once again. I even took a related non-required course after earning the certificate, because I was still eager to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, just as I was finishing up that final course this past December, my dream job opened up. I have been pursuing a position with the City of Largo’s Communications team for over two years now, specifically in their broadcast and multimedia department. I applied for the opening, confident that I met the requirements of experience AND a required certificate or degree in Multimedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started working for the City of Largo in January, and I am home. None of this would have been possible without SPC and the amazing programs it offers. I am thrilled with my new employer, and am looking forward to this next phase of my career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I’m not finished. I will be back at SPC soon to finish my degree. Not because I have to, but because I want to. I believe in SPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you, and thank you to Debra, John, and Lisa. You all are great, and you made a huge impact on my life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preston Jarvis was being overlooked for the digital media jobs he wanted due to a lack of formal education. The he came to SPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":12018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-design-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}