Creative Careers Week (18th-22nd November) was the perfect opportunity for Hertfordshire Futures to team up with Sky Studios Elstree and Discover! Creative Careers

The Creative and Screen Industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK, with just over half of the new studio space being planned and delivered around London and the South-East, coming to Hertfordshire.

With this in mind, Creative Careers Week (18th-22nd November) was the perfect opportunity for Hertfordshire Futures to team up with Sky Studios Elstree and Discover! Creative Careers.

A special series of roadshows were designed to be delivered across the four Hertfordshire Colleges, highlighting skills gaps that exist in the industry, and showcase the variety of career opportunities available.  

These events are not for the typical creative career students but instead focus on students studying subjects such as Electrical, Carpentry, Business, Finance, Hair, Beauty, and Games Design. 

Working closely with Hertfordshire Film Office and their industry contacts, Erica Hodges (Careers Coach) set about contacting the huge array of businesses and freelancers producing an impressive lineup of exhibitors from across the sector to speak to students that are Film and TV’s future talent. 

Screenwriters, producers, set designers, riggers, specialist electricians and many more, showed their support by agreeing to feature at one or more of the events across the week and spread the word about opportunities in their industry. 

During the roadshows, a series of workshops are being delivered by sector specialists, and students are being given the opportunity to speak with exhibitors to discover future pathways in careers they’d never thought to explore. 

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