If you've ever tried hiring for a candidate with "5 years’ experience, (for an entry level role!), must be digitally fluent, passionate about the arts, and happy to work evenings and weekends in exchange for the price of a bus pass and an extra line of experience on their CV", then the Brabble Bites Hiring Huddle is absolutely for you. Between the tight budgets, high expectations, skills shortages and ongoing challenges with building (and retaining) genuinely diverse teams, hiring in the arts, culture and heritage sector is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Hiring in arts, culture and heritage is tough — tight budgets, high expectations, and the ongoing challenge of building (and retaining) diverse teams. The great news is, these challenges aren't completely insurmountable and you're not alone.
That’s why we’re bringing hiring managers together for Brabble Bites: The Hiring Huddle - a space to swap ideas, stories, and survival strategies over decent coffee and energising snacks.
We’ll talk about:
- Competing with commercial industries (who seem to have both bigger budgets and shinier offices).
- The eternal diversity dilemma: wanting wider representation but stuck with systemic barriers.
- How to keep people once you’ve actually managed to hire them.
- And yes, the joy of recruitment processes that make candidates want to run for the hills.
If you're someone who hates awkward small talk, we've got you covered - you'll have the opportunity to participate in structured peer learning activities that will genuinely help you, as well as nicking some of the latest insights from our work.
So what are you waiting for? Save your spot now, and we'll make sure we save you some coffee.
