What’s the best way to get into the creative industry with little experience? ✨
I am a recent graduate student looking for any opportunities to get me started.
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- Contact as many creative agencies and outlets possible and apply for ALL of the graduate and internship roles. I’m a big believer in trying anything out once to see what works for you (within your career goals/interests) and what you enjoy and absolutely detest and won’t want to do again!You will get rejected and that doesn’t let up throughout your career but just keep pushing. It’s tough, but also so rewarding when you finally get that breakthrough opportunity. This is the first and most exciting step - good luck and if you need any more advice my inbox is always open ☺️
- STOP!Why haven’t you got ‘experience’?You’ve just graduated! You’re clearly a creative and, strictly speaking, you’re already IN the industry based on that.Reframe yourself. How can you make the experience you HAVE be even more valuable to a business you wish to work with.Identify your strengths. What you love doing and how you’ve done it. What’s your point of difference? What, how or why do you do what you do uniquely.Position yourself in the market and then look for roles/collabs/businesses that could use some of that. Suggest what you’d do for them. Give examples of your work. Talk through the value you have and will create.It’s never about starting from scratch. You have loads of creative experience. It now needs positioning in a way to create maximum value.Stay Boom!S
- Some advice in here - mostly aimed at copywriters but applies to all roles really: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/work-get-vikki-ross/?trackingId=9a1nveGkS3uJepdNWA0Lwg%3D%3D
- Hey Bruna, the best way - not just to get started in the creative industries - but to actually shape the direction your career takes within them, is to create independent work. Create your own briefs and projects to start building a portfolio, which shows what you can do and your ideas and tastes. Coupled with some interneships (this can be really informal - just reach out to people who's work you admire), and you'll start moving! Hope that helps, Lex x
- Internships/placements/shadowing are a given but creating your own experience can also be beneficial. What I mean by that is that when I was starting out, I’d work on pretend briefs to bulk up my portfolio until eventually they slowly got replaced by real experience as I landed full time work ☺️ it’s a great way to show your ability to take a brief and approach it in your own creative way and show tangible examples of your work
- It can be a mix of assisting and working with people that are already in the industry. Also events!
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