{"id":18390,"date":"2017-09-21T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18390"},"modified":"2017-09-21T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:59:43","slug":"18390_success-story-oladapo-onikuyide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2017\/09\/21\/18390_success-story-oladapo-onikuyide\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story: Oladapo Onikuyide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: Oladapo Onikuyide<br \/><\/strong><strong>Company: Matte Projects<br \/><\/strong><strong>Title: Design Intern<br \/><\/strong><strong>Graduation Date: May 2018<br \/><\/strong><strong>Major: Graphic Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What inspired your success?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>I wanted to make sure that every day I get up for work, I\u2019m going to a place filled with people whose work inspires me<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What is it you do at Matte Projects?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:&nbsp;<\/strong>I work with the design team to produce creative assets for clients, this can range from pitch decks and social media content to user journeys and floor plans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Q: How did you land this role?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A:&nbsp;<\/strong>I expressed interest to a friend of mine who had worked with the company previously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Q: Were there any faculty or staff members that were particularly helpful during your time at&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Montclair State?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A:&nbsp;<\/strong>Anthony Inciong and Jun Li for replying when I pestered them over email and phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What was the most valuable service or event that College of the Arts\u2019 Career Services offered?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A:&nbsp;<\/strong>Allowing me to take internships that help me carve out my career path and allowing me to use them as credits toward my course of study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Q: What are your plans after graduation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>Dive even deeper into experience design and engage in thought leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Q: What advice would you give to current and prospective students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong>Be resilient. I\u2019d be lying if I said finding an internship was easy, but it\u2019s a blessing to know that what you need will be there when you get there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic Design Major, Class of 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":118390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-261_career-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}