This unit aims to prepare learners with an awareness of employment status and the employment marketplace within the creative media sector. Learners will learn about the main types of employment status, their legal and taxation differences, and implications for job security, flexibility and working patterns. Learners will also describe a range of prospective employers in the creative media sector and how to choose an employer based on their personal interests, knowledge, skills and job requirements. Finally, learners will promote themselves by creating a professional CV, discussing their strengths and weaknesses for a specific job application, and describing and pitching a creative idea to an employer or commissioner.

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Unit 1: Awareness of Employment in the
Creative Media Sector
Unit code: L/600/9037
QCF level: 3
Credit value: 6
Guided learning hours: 40
Unit aim
The aim of this unit is to prepare the learner with an awareness of
employment status and the employment market place within the Creative
Media sector. The learner will also learn how to promote their CV and work
to employers.
Learning outcomes and assessment criteria
In order to pass this unit, the evidence that the learner presents for
assessment needs to demonstrate that they can meet all the learning
outcomes for the unit. The assessment criteria determine the standard
required to achieve the unit.
On completion of this unit a learner should:
Learning outcomes Assessment criteria
1 Know about employment
status in the Creative
Media sector
1.1 Describe the main types of
employment status within the
Creative Media sector
1.2 Describe the key legal and
taxation differences between main
types of employment status
1.3 Explain the main implications of
each employment status, in
relation to job security, flexibility
and working patterns
2 Understand the Creative
Media employment
market place
2.1 Describe a range of prospective
employers and the profiles and
products of these employers
2.2 Explain how to choose an
employer in terms of own
personal interests, knowledge,
skills and job requirements

2. Learning outcomes Assessment criteria
3 Be able to promote self 3.1 Create and present a professional
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standard CV, with examples of
own work, relevant to a specific
job application
3.2 Discuss strengths and
weaknesses in relation to own
work and a specific job
application
3.3 Describe and pitch a creative idea
to an employer or commissioner