When you publish on the internet, you address a potential audience of 300 million English-speakers but first you must compete with the thousands of other hopeful citizen journalists. How do you write successfully for the internet and impress the professionals? From glamour.com to BBC News Interactive Garry Lemon gets the answers.
Starting your own business – who hasn’t thought about it? You get to be your own boss, choose what hours you work and best of all, every penny that you earn goes straight into your own pocket. It’s a wonderful idea. It just doesn’t seem particularly realistic, does it? Or at least that is the conclusion some graduates are reluctantly arriving at.
Many creative graduates, especially those with non-vocational degrees, find that they have broad areas of interest in which to pursue potential careers. If you are prepared to be proactive, there’s no need to limit yourself to one avenue of creativity.
Archivist Anne Morgan challenges preconceptions about careers in the heritage sector, explains the joys of working with personal correspondence and shares her favourite jokes about archivists.
1) Could you begin by describing a 'average' day for an archivist working for a city council?
In 2005, journalist Phil Hebblethwaite and design specialist Mickey Gibbons left their respective jobs to set up an independent and entirely free music periodical.
Having had involvement of most areas of music business over the last ten years I have learnt it is an industry that works like no other. The harsh reality for graduates is that the challenges of gaining employment in this field are no different whether you powered your way to a 1st or smoked your way to a 2:2.
Not many academics can saddle a horse, let alone make said saddle. But then Paul McDonald has followed a refreshingly different path into academia. Now Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton (where he runs the Creative and Professional Writing Programme), Paul began his career after leaving school at 16 to train as a saddle-maker.
Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature.
"We support unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music"
BBC Introducing has brought all of the BBC's supporters of unsigned music together to nurture the freshest artists across the UK. If you're making music, there are people here that want to hear from you.
Your music could be played on the family of BBC radio shows, broadcast nationwide every week.
The National music competition for unsigned bands, vocal groups and solo artists to perform live.
With over 10,000 registrations for the second year in succession, it is the biggest music talent search for original singers and acts to perform live in the UK. So be yourself; The competition's unique format allows the UK's break through acts to perform in their own genre and style.
The Bristol office of global marketing and advertising agency McCann Erickson is offering up to four internships of between two and four weeks in duration to up to four students wanting to gain experience in an agency environment.
Philip Hoare's Leviathan or, The Whale has been named as winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson prize. The £20,000 prize was presented at a ceremony in London, with the BBC broadcasting a special edition of The Culture Show.
A gritty crime novel has been unveiled as the winner of this year’s Dundee International Book Prize, a collaboration between the University of Dundee, Polygon and the newly unveiled ‘One City, Many Discoveries’ campaign.
On Saturday 4th July, the UK Taiko Festival for Taiko drumming returns to the Exeter Northcott to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Taiko drumming combines strong rhythms with highly choreographed movement creating an exciting visual and sonic experience that you can see, hear and feel.
University College Falmouth, Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RH
Sophie Parkin, one of the UK’s most entertaining writers, is to lead the Turn Your Life Into A Book Summer Schoolat University College Falmouth. The course aims to help people turn their life experience into published writing.
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