Create your career week: Planning projects for your creative career

During Create your career week, sessions delivered will aim to support participants to:

• Start career planning with advice from C&E
• Practice preparing professional documents for upcoming applications, interviews or creative projects you are focused on.
• Gain insight on how to build and maintain professional connections for your career.
• Get access to resources and useful signposts to support you with your employability queries and needs.

These sessions are designed as a mix between lecture-style and participant-led workshops. Providing a space for you to not only gain (or renew) knowledge and insights for your employability, but to apply and tailor it to your creative career needs.

Who are our sessions for:

All sessions delivered by careers support are for UAL pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate students, UAL alumni and UAL graduates only.

This session is particularly beneficial for:

• Current students interested in completing self-initiated projects for their professional portfolio.
• Current students who are interested in pursuing a self-directed career in freelancing/contracting, interested in applying for funding opportunities
• International current students who want to gain knowledge or insight into what a future of working as a freelancer would include.

What to expect:

During this session, participants will be supported to understand the key elements, themes and what to consider to successfully plan and deliver a self-initiated project. The session will particularly support participants who are keen to have a self-directed (or enterprise) career to understand the importance of key elements of projects including, timelines, budgets as well as roles and responsibilities for effective project delivery.

This session will be hosted on Blackboard Collaborate and will not be recorded. Participants will receive a link to the space upon registration for the event.

How to prepare:

All participants who sign up to attend the workshop will receive access to the Create Your Career Week padlet from Monday 10th November. It will include pre-recorded video resources, activity sheets and useful signposts to the UAL Careers Toolkit and other UAL wide teams/resources to help you make the most of the session.

Be sure to keep an eye on your inbox (and sometimes spam folder) so you don't miss out on the pre-session materials!

Why join?

This session will give you a dedicated space to prioritise your employability as well as access useful resources and activity sheets and an opportunity to reach out to your peers and our team.

Any questions about accessing this session?

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.

Image Credit: Casper File, 2023, BA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.