The Results-Oriented Visual Arts Workplace

Visual arts jobs, whether creating illustrations, taking pictures or selecting media, are involved in a lot of detail. When visual arts people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Visual Arts Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this social Services affairs job accomplish for the organization?

Visual Arts Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Visual Arts Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Visual Arts Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and social Servicesly sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Visual Arts Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, social Services affairs jobs--

PRODUCE VISUALPRESENTATIONS by

studying presentation requirements and background; formulating and developing art concepts; evaluating presentation approaches, styles, and techniques; creating illustrative material for presentation.

Types of Visual Arts Jobs

Some visual arts jobs take pictures with cameras, shoot films with video cameras, or create illustrations by hand or with computer software. Other jobs store, operate and maintain presentation equipment. Still other jobs interact with clients to determine presentation requirements. And, of course, somebody has to manage and supervise the visual arts people and processes.

Visual Arts Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how social Services affairs job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Visual Arts Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Visual Arts Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the social Services affairs results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Visual Arts situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Visual Arts recommendations are ready when needed.

Visual Arts Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future social Services affairs issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver social Services affairs recommendations by 10% by (date).

Visual Arts Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each social Services affairs job description are more helpful (and social Services) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Visual Arts Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Visual Arts Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Visual Arts Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present social Services affairs recommendations."

The Visual Arts Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Visual Arts Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Visual Arts Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her social Services affairs work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the social Services affairs job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Visual Arts Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Visual Arts Job Description and Visual Arts Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the social Services affairs job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS VISUAL ARTS ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the social Services affairs job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving social Services affairs processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new social Services affairs system controls.

Visual Arts Career Links

KHake.com, Vocational Information Center, Visual Arts Career Guide

Originated by Kathryn Hake from her experience with helping students in vocational programs research topics for their school projects.

Greater Essex County District Schools, Art Department

197 careers related to visual arts.

ArtCareer.net, Careers in the Visual Arts

Career guidance, perspectives, find a job, post a job, links to other resources.

Incredible Art Department, Art Jobs and Careers

Resources for careers in a variety of categories, job titles, job search, magazines and journals, organizations.

University of North Carolina - Wilmington, Career Center, Studio Art

Comprehensive career counseling and resource center providing information on skills required for the visual arts profession, related career titles, and links for career planning, resources, job and internship searches, and professional associations.

Northern Michigan University, Art Design and Career Employment

Art jobs, career planning, informational resources, art and entrepreneurship, professional organization, exhibitions.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Artists and Related Workers

Training and education needed for art and related jobs, earnings, expected job prospects, what artists and related workers do on the job, and working conditions.

ArtSchools.com, Art Careers

Careers, jobs, salaries, career descriptions and outlook, career selection, internships, cover letter and résumé, interview, job search, self-employment.

University of California, Berkeley, Arts and Entertainment

Professional organizations, career paths, occupational information and resources.