Creative arts and design
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- Keep updated... Derby Creatives blog
- Watch... Professional practice for creatives videos, including pricing your work, successful networking and marketing without advertising.
- Listen to Guardian Careers Talk podcast: What arts grads need to know about the job market
- Need funding for a creative project or to support your learning or business? Search our live UK-wide database for sources of funding.
Careers in creative arts and design
- Comprehensive profiles about different occupations within creative arts and design and arts administration
- Jobs, courses and careers advice to help you break into the art, design, music, film and theatre industries
- Careerplayer - career videos bringing graduate jobs to life
Creative arts and design careers websites:
Looking for jobs
Our vacancy database is updated daily with jobs direct from national and local employers. Also look at Finding advertised graduate vacancies for other vacancy sources.
CVs for creatives
If you're looking to work in a job where you need to demonstrate your creative flair, you'll want to create a CV that helps you stand out visually from the crowd.
The Creative CV Guide is available for reference in the Career Development Centre at Kedleston Road and for more design ideas check out 45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention and 25 Examples of Super Creative Resume Design
You also need to think carefully about your CV's content; in the arts where 'mosaic-style' careers paths are common, it's best to create a CV that paints a picture of your overall career path rather than documenting every single job or project.
Examples of vacancy sources
- Animated People
- Animation Magazine
- Apparel
- Appointment
- Artjobster
- Arts Culture Media Jobs
- Arts Derbyshire
- Arts hub
- Arts Jobs
- Arts Jobs Online
- Arts Partnership Nottingham
- Arts Thread
- Creative Industries Network
- Creative Opportunities
- Denza
- Drapers
- Fashion Workie
- Fashionweb
- Guardian arts jobs twitter feed
- Indesign Recruitment
- Mad.co.uk
- Signal Talent
- Talisman
Related links
- Gain invaluable knowledge of a job first hand by undertaking work experience/ work shadowing or volunteering.
- Attend local and national careers events where you can find out about career options.
- Check out options with your subject for more ideas.
- Explore which careers you may be most suited to using Adult Directions and Profiling for Success.
- Chat through your options and ideas with our careers advisers.
- Refine your graduate job hunting techniques to maximise your chances of success in the job market.
