The lecture today was from Dean Humphreys,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-humphreys-41a15419/?ppe=1
Dean is a sound supervisor who has specialised in Film and TV sound. Despite not being from the area of what my project is on his talk still had very useful points that could be taken from the lecture. Dean spoke in depth about the fundamentals of what makes you a good employee for a business and stand out from the rest of the people who want to try and get into the industry alongside general traits.
The first point that he made is that you must be a team player and be able to work with everyone and help people out despite not potentially seeing eye to eye with them and then relate this to being resilient and being able to take the strain of working to someone who may disagree with you.
Secondly, he stressed the importance of being able to reflect on creative ideas and understand the fact that you will have to drop ideas due to you not being in charge of the overall project. He also related this to the fact that it is key to be able to refresh your workflow and constantly be able to critique yourself as otherwise you are in the wrong industry.
Finally he stressed what needs to be done to be successful in getting a job in the industry, with particular importance to timekeeping and arriving early for things rather than turning up bang on time. Alongside this, he stated the importance of being determined to get into the industry and not giving up despite not having replies to emails and on the topic of emails, he said they should be spell checked and show a genuine passion, rather than being generic and boring.