This booklet is designed to help roles, employers and opportunities inspire you about careers in the that Leeds City Region has to offer. creative industries and gain deeper insight into the range of creative We hope you find this booklet useful. What’s it like working in the Discover more at: futuregoals.co.uk/creativetoolkit creative sector? Working in the creative sector noticeable in roles such as web means having the opportunity to design, animation and graphic pursue a range of exciting roles, design to name a few. some of these are practical such as becoming an interior Your working environment could designer, film director, radio DJ, vary from working in an office, to or others include more office a studio, theatre, museum, music based roles such as a games venue or home based, depending designer, architect, museum on your job role. curator and arts administrator. Hours that you will work can also Digital jobs are a big feature of vary enormously, you could work the creative sector. Media and regular office hours or evenings information technology feature and weekends and if you’re throughout, with an increase in self employed as a freelancer digital technology being used you might have a little more across many organisations to flexibility and be able to choose produce and deliver creative and your own hours. innovative content. This is more 2 3 Local employers: + LITTLE Agency + Northern Media + Apollo 3D Marketing Advertising + Websquare + Goldtempest Media and marketing Key skills and knowledge + Brass Agency Creative ideas Awareness of current trends in design and advertising ? What is it? Job roles within advertising and marketing: Good communication Careers in advertising and marketing are all about Able to present and pitch ideas developing and increasing the public interest and + Social media manager Strong written skills understanding of a brand, an organisation, person or + Public relations officer Good under pressure and a product. People who are self-employed, those who against deadlines work as Vloggers or Instagram influencers for instance + Media planner will have to develop strategies to promote themselves + Product manager Able to sell products and services In Leeds alone there are over to the right audience. Other people will be employed + Marketing executive Able to use your initiative 138 advertising, digital, PR Did you and marketing companies in marketing and advertising. Think about all the times + Market researcher Customer service skills you’ve been in a shop or watching an advert and have know? + Digital marketer Business management skills felt you would like to buy a product due to a certain of UK television rd revenue come + Digital copywriter Be thorough and pay attention to detail placement of an item or due to the advert you’ve seen, 1/3 from advertising this is down to marketing and advertising teams. + Creative director Able to use a computer and different software packages Check out the website allinleeds.com to find out more! 4 5 Local employers: + The Engine Room + Brewster Bye + Harrison Spinks Architects + West Yorkshire + Design in Detail Print Workshop + Roost Architects Crafts, design + Burberry + Plaskitt & Plaskitt + Textile Centre + Calder Architects and architecture of Excellence + Biskit ? What is it? Job roles within crafts, design and architecture: Key skills and knowledge There are many jobs in art, design and architecture Did you that cover a lot of different sectors. Artistic vision and + Architect + Jewellery designer design are skills that are really important for all of Creativity Ability to come up + Graphic designer + Product designer know? these areas. If you’re creative and like making things Attention to detail with creative ideas + Fashion designer + Theatre designer or using your hands for practical tasks this sector Independence Knowledge of new could be for you. + Art/music/drama + Production technologies Leeds City Region is home to the only specialist Arts Excellent therapist designer University in the North - Leeds Arts University communication skills Creative problem It’s important to start building a portfolio of your + Ceramics designer + Web designer solving work and relevant skills and work experience as it Most creative media companies in the North of England Ability to work in a + Exhibition designer + Textile designer can be a real advantage when you apply for jobs. are small and medium sized businesses; many are micro team Good imagination Alternatively you could set up your own business or + Furniture designer businesses employing fewer than 5 people Resilience work freelance. + Interior and spatial designer LEGO used to make special bricks for Architects, and Architects do occasionally use LEGO 6 to visualise a building 7 Did you Local employers: know? + True North + Channel 4 Some scenes from Harry Potter films were + ITV filmed in Yorkshire. We also have a vast range + Heart Yorkshire Film, TV, radio of TV shows filmed in Yorkshire, for example, Ackley Bridge, Victoria, Emmerdale + Screen Yorkshire and photography and Peaky Blinders to name a few. + BBC Radio + Local Radio stations ? What is it? Job roles within film TV, Key skills and knowledge radio and photography: If you think you might be interested in this area, there Time management Being proactive and are a range of jobs from on screen to behind the + Radio producer + Music producer Organisational skills having initiative. scenes that involve directing, production, research, + Photographer + Broadcast engineer Skills in critical analysis editing, wardrobe, choreography, photography and Team work more technical roles such as sound engineering. + Television camera + Broadcast journalist Flexibility and Research skills There’s so much more to this industry than just being operator + Concept artist willingness to adapt Communication skills on screen or on the radio as an actress, actor or DJ. + Film/video editor + Television floor Quick thinking and the and the ability to tell + Location manager manager ability to take direction people your opinions + Researcher + Television Working to a brief, to Self-discipline and self-direction + Runner production deadlines and within a coordinator budget A resourceful and + Sound technician VFX artist Reflecting on, and creative approach to Lighting technician + + evaluating, yours and work 8 others’ work Creative problem solving 9 Local employers: Did you + Team17 know? + Ocean Spark + Laser Dog We have some big games + Rockstar Games IT, software and companies with the region, + NHS Digital including Rockstar Games who computer services + North Forge have an office in Leeds. They have created games such as; Grand + 3M BIC Theft Auto V and Red Dead + FDM Redemption 2 and have + Fantastic Integrated sold millions of copies of games Marketing worldwide. ? What is it? Job roles within IT, software and computer services and gaming: + 6B Digital Team17 are based in Wakefield IT and all that it involves exists across so many who created the Worms series of games alongside others such as different sectors and covers so many job roles. Your + Games developer + IT helpdesk/ Key skills and knowledge job could be creating applications, systems, solving Overcooked 1+2. + Games tester support problems with technology, supporting people who + IT manager We also have some smaller are using IT, creating software, games or other + Games production Able to keep up to date with recent Programming, knowledge of + Animation software and IT knowledge different coding languages companies such as Ocean Spark programmes. It doesn’t just end there either, you + Web developer studios in Huddersfield who specialist Creativity Knowledge of games engines can work in IT but also work in areas such as in IT + Programmer – can have their own gaming academy departments of finance, manufacturing, public sector work in a variety of + 2D/3D Artist Problem solving and platforms to teach the next generation of organisations, engineering, construction and many places, including + Quality Patience Communication games designers. more. the game industry assurance Customer service, either members Able to work to deadlines or virtual reality of the public or within your Good organisation industry organisation Attention to detail Maths and physics 10 11 Local employers: + Hepworth Wakefield + Yorkshire Sculpture Park + National Science and Museums, galleries Media Museum + Royal Armouries and libraries, heritage + Kirkstall Abbey + The Piece Hall + Various National Trust/ English Heritage properties ? What is it? Job roles within museums, galleries, + National Railway Museum libraries and heritage: This sector is diverse, with a range of opportunities and organisations. Galleries, museums or libraries + Archaeologist + Museum Key skills and knowledge could be run by a private organisation, a Local + Archivist education officer Did you Authority, a university or an organisation such as + Academic librarian English Heritage and National Trust and will have an + Conservator know? Attention to detail Ability to work independently array of collections, artefacts and objects, depending + Curator + Estates Manager Strong interest in, and knowledge of and as part of a team on their theme. + Art gallery art and historical artifacts Planning and organisation + Exhibition designer Halifax is home to Shibden Hall which is manager + Heritage manager the focus of the 2019 BBC drama series, Practical abilities, working with Digital media and IT skills If you’re interested, you can apply to become