This document discusses employment opportunities and job roles in the media sector. It covers different types of employment like full-time, part-time, freelance and voluntary work. It also discusses ways to find work like using careers guidance, trade fairs, trade publications, networking, and word of mouth. The document provides guidance on researching a specific job role including required skills and qualifications. It also discusses the benefits of work experience and evaluating one's functional skills for employment.

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Unit 7: Understanding the Creative
Media Sector
Learning outcome 4:
Know about employment opportunities
and job roles in the media sector
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Employment opportunities and job roles in the media sector
The purpose of this workbook is to get you to understand different job roles, different
ways of working and opportunities for professional development. You will have to
explain different terms, give opinions and source relevant additional information in
order to help you comprehensively explain employment opportunities and job roles in
the media sector with reference to elucidated examples.
This first section considers different ways of working. You should use information from
the lecture, your own experiences and further research to help you answer each
question. Wherever possible, you should use specific and detailed examples. This will
help you achieve a higher grade and also give you a deeper understanding of the
subject.
Describe the following different types of employment and some of their advantages and
disadvantages:
Full time
40 hours per week is considered full time each day is 8 hours.
Advantages- permanentjob
Guaranteed a monthly payment
Disadvantage- childcareproblems
Expected overtime
Lack of free time
Part time
Part time is working
Freelance
Freelance is working with multiple clients and being able to work on your own hours
Advantages- working own hours
Disadvantages- fussy clients
Voluntary
Working for free to gain experience
Advantages- experience, job offer
Disadvantage- unpaid

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Describe shift work. What does it entail and what types of media job might require it?
Working different time shifts to ensure someone is in the workplace at all times.
Television media broadcasts have different shifts to keep the show running by having
someone there at all times.
A permanent contract is one where:
Working for one company
Advantage- job security, able to take out loan
Disadvantage-
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of such a contract?
A temporary contract is one where:
Lacks job security of permanent job, but allows flexibility
Advantage- people who freelance, this can be useful to them.
Disadvantage- cant source income
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of such a contract?
What is multiskilling and which skills could you combine together?
Workers who are trained in multiple skills for several projects.
Photography-photojournalism
Photography and videography
What is casual work? Who does it benefit the most? What are some of the arguments
against casual work?
Casual work is a zero hour contract you can chose if you want to go in or not, call might
take time for them to offer you some hours to go in and work.
Explain hourly paid work. Find a job, which pays by the hour to help you with your
explanation.
This type of payment is offered with part time

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What is Piecework? What do employers need to be careful about when employing
someone this way?
Is when an individual is paid to do a single project, an example is that someone is
making and developing t-shirts and get paid around 60p per shirt made. This can take
money away from a business over time if they have hired someone to do piecework for
them.
This section is concerned with finding work. You will have an idea of the sort of job you
might like to do in the future. Keeping a specific job role or industry in mind when
completing these questions will help you provide more detailed and focussed answers.
Starting to think about a specific area of employment at this stage will help you in later
sections of the workbook.
Why would you use careers guidance? Provide the names of at least 2 organisations
that can help people plan their careers.
Careers guidance can be used to help find a job for you by looking at your strengths and
weaknesses and find something which would best suit you.
Nationalcareerservice.direct.gov.uk
Job centre
Prospects.ac.uk
Creativeskillset.org
Totaljobs.com
What is a trade fair?
When businesses in same industry or background come together and show of their
services.
This helps because it can hep you to get the opportunity to network with them and gain
experience in the work.
Can also help to see what products people are showcasing, used for inspiration.
Which trade fairs could you attend to help you with your career? How could they help
you? Be specific here to help you comprehensively explain.
Publishing and media expo is a trade fair, which can be attended.
What could some advantages and disadvantages be to using the national press to look
for work?
Advantages-high paying jobs, great variety of spaces available,
Disadvantages-larger reach of individuals, expected to travel great distance for job

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What trade press publications could you use to help you find work? Would this be a
better option than using the national press? Explain your answer using detailed
examples.
Total films is a magazine, which is similar to the empire, they have a section, which
displays media based work that is available.
What would be a good way of keeping track of and in touch with your personal contacts?
How could this help you when looking for work?
The best way to keep in touch with personal contacts is using social network such as
Facebook. This helps because of word of mouth, which is where people talk about a
subject that might involve a job position.
What is networking and how could it be useful to you?
When individuals get together to discuss opportunities
Explain word of mouth as a way of getting work. Is this a reliable method for obtaining
work?
Someone can ask you if you would like to work for them which is word of mouth. Talking
to past clients can be a good opportunity.
This next section requires you to do further research in to your chosen career.
Creativeskillset.org is fantastic resources, which will help you learn about the
qualifications, skills and experience you need to gain to work in industry. It also gives
detailed overviews and case studies, to help you understand what each job really
involves.
It will help you find other useful sources of information from details on unions, trade
websites and publications to job adverts. You should investigate your chosen job role
or sector and sum up the skills and qualifications you need to do that job as well as
fully investigating what it involves.

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What job role would you like? Explain your reasons? What kind of job is it (creative,
technical, editorial etc.)?
(http://www.creativeskillset.org is a great place to start)
What skills will you need for that job?
Summarise what is involved when doing this job.
What qualifications are required for that job?
Find at least 2 courses you could do to help you get in to the industry. You should state
the name of the course, the level of qualification (level 2, level 3, Degree etc.), the
institution that you would attend and their entry requirements)

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Where could you find out more information? (Investigate at least 2 other sources of
information and give a brief summary of why this resource is useful)
This section requires you to do some job hunting, so you can see what is required
from the perspective of employers in the industry. You should think about the
different places you could look for work. It is good to see what jobs are available,
what they pay, and what you need to do to get them.
Use at least 2 different sources to find a job that you would like to do.
Job: (paste brief description of job here)
Source:
Summarise the skills required:
Is this job full time/part time/freelance?
What do you need to do to apply?

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Job: (paste brief description of job here)
Source:
Summarise the skills required:
Is this job full time/part time/freelance?
What do you need to do to apply?
Work experience can be a good way to test out working in industry and can be a way
to get a foot in the door. If you perform well during your work experience or
internship, you will put yourself in a good position if a bigger role becomes available.
There are lots of media organisations that have work experience and intern
programs as well as other companies who specialise in getting placements for their
clients. Be specific when answering the questions below. Give website addresses
and discuss what you have found. The more detail, the better your grade.
Work experience:
What are some of the benefits of work experience?
Where could you look for work experience?
Where would you like to do work experience? How would you go about applying?

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As well as looking at your industry skills, employers want people who are able to
work efficiently and communicate effectively. In this section, you should evaluate
your own functional skills level and consider what action, if any, you need to take to
improve your skills in this area.
What grades do employers normally like to see people have for GCSE Maths and English?
Why is it important to have good functional skills?
Are there any areas of Maths, English or basic I.T skills that you need to work on?
This final section requires you to think about your own skills for employment. You will
be assessed on this as you progress throughout the course. This helps formalise
your ideas on these key skills. Some questions are very similar to those you might
see on a detailed job application or are questions you may be asked in an interview.
Thinking of examples of when you have used these key skills before an interview is a
good way to prepare.
How reliable, committed and efficient are you? Give examples when you have
demonstrated some of these qualities. Do you need to improve any of these areas?
Attendance and punctuality are very important. What was your attendance and
punctuality like at school? If your figures were good, how will you maintain them? If your
figures need to improve, what steps do you need to take to improve those figures? Be
specific in your answers.
How important do you think self presentation is during an interview?

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Can you think of a time when you contributed to a group project? What was the project?
What role did you take and how successful do you think you were?
Give an example of when you have had to manage your time carefully and how you
went about it?
Give an example of when you had to take personal responsibility for something. What
was the scenario and what was the outcome?