# Week 8 — Friday, October 16 ## Appointments · Target List **Your group hour. Lab open the full block.** --- ## Due today **Professional Identity Kit** — LinkedIn, platform bio, 120-word outreach note, and the **Target List of 10**. --- ## Your conference Two questions about the Target List, and they're both harder than they sound: **1. Are these ten real?** Five aspirational, five realistic-adjacent. If all ten are game studios and eight of them are AAA, the list is a wish list, not a target list. Look at the DFW Industry Map — simulation, motion and agency work, arch viz, medical and technical animation, and location-based entertainment hire far more juniors in this region, and the queue is a fraction as long. **2. Is your work actually aimed at them?** Open one of your target's job postings next to your portfolio. Do the requirements and the pieces line up? If they don't, one of the two has to move — and it's usually easier to move the target than to rebuild the portfolio in six weeks. We'll also read your outreach note out loud. If sentence two could have been sent to anybody, it isn't done. --- ## Bring - The Target List, open and editable - Your LinkedIn profile, on screen - One target's actual job posting --- ## Due next | | When | |---|---| | **Second piece placed publicly** | Week 9 — Fri Oct 23 | | *(Full class: website, showcase piece, networking)* | Week 10 — Fri Oct 30 | | **Website — Concept & Design** | Week 10 — Fri Oct 30 | Read the **Website — Concept & Design** assignment now. It's due *at* the Week 10 session, not after it.