C&E: Create your career programme

The topic and focus for this term is identifying the skills within your practice and pathways you can explore for your creative career

This programme is exclusively for UAL students, alumni and graduates.

For the autumn term Create your Career programme, sessions delivered will aim to support participants to:

• Identify the skills within your creative practice and shape a career that works for you.

• Reflect on your creative practice, what you value about it and how this meets evolving needs for creative careers within and outside of the creative industries
• Define and explore what a creative pathway and positive outcome means to set goals for your future (or current) creative career.

This programme is designed as a mix between lecture-style and participant-led activities. Providing an online space for you to not only gain (or renew) knowledge and insights but, to share and reflect on your creative practice and future pathways.

Who is the programme for:

This programme is aimed at current UAL pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate students. UAL graduates/alumni are welcome to join.

The programme this term is particularly beneficial for:

• Anyone feeling curious or unsure about career options

• Anyone keen to understand what creative pathways and opportunities exisit for a creative career

• Anyone who wants to set goals for their creative practice, pathways and future creative career

What to expect:

Online workshops via MS Teams.

We'll be hosting our workshops on Tuesday and Thursday via MS Teams. We will be hosting a session in person on Wednesday 18th November, which will be bookable separately. Details to come soon!

Tuesday 17th November

• 11:30am - 12:30pm: What are skills and how do we value them?
• Aim? To help participants build knowledge and confidence in identifying their skills and ability to articulate them to support their chosen career and increase your adaptability.

• 1 - 2pm: Exploring how do the creative industries value your creative practice & skills
• Aim? Begin to define the types of opportunities for a creative career. Identify where and how the creative industry value creative practices (which skills are in demand?)

Wednesday 18th November, Career Wellbeing session at London College or Fashion. Details and bookings will be updated soon.

Thursday 19th November

• 11:30am - 12:30pm: Setting goals for your creative practice and pathway(s) for your creative career
• Aim: This session will focus on supporting participants to reflect and set goals for their creative practice and pathways.
• 1 - 2pm: CVs for Creatives Careers
• Aim: To round of the week, this session will explore creating CVs that reflect your skills, value and goals while being tailored to job applications.

Our padlet:

We've created a padlet with a selection of resources, pre-recorded material and activity sheets designed to support students who are looking to recognise, identify and describe their skills, keen to explore what pathways they can explore for a

Through the programme and padlet, you can access different styles of learning:

• Play, watch and engage the pre-recorded videos

• Use the activity sheets to practice and apply your new knowledge

• Interact with our polls, feedback and questions

The padlet includes interactive polls, to get the most out of the experience we encourage all students who sign up to the programme commit to:

• Commit time to your employability daily

• Be curious

• Be proactive

Any questions about accessing this programme?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact us at careers-support@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.

Register now to secure your place.

Any questions about accessing this programme?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact us at careers-support@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.

For more details about Careers & Employability, visit arts.ac.uk/students/student-careers or follow us on Instagram @careers_employability.

Image credit: Confidence by Fruzsina Menyhei, BA Illustration.