Researching career opportunity's

By looking into what potential opportunity's there are for my age, location and experience, I can get a better idea of what I may need to do to get into what I am interested in. I would like to go into something media related. Ideally anything in music (radio presenter for radio X is my dream job) would be ideal to be. I am going to look at different potential opportunity's. Whilst doing research, something that is prominently repeated in criteria is that you should gain "prior experience", I have also included in my research online courses in and around the areas that would be beneficial to getting into the university courses, work experience and further course.

Channel 4 4Skills Work Experience

• 3 modules to complete in 6 weeks.

• Core modules include: What is the creative industry, creative personas, Employability and then there 5 additional modules: Commissioning, 4Studio, Legal and Compliance, Sales, Customer Insight.

• Free of charge.

• Does not need to have any prior experience.

• Need to be 16 or older.

• Can be added to CV to be good experience.

• Is completely virtual and do not need to travel anywhere.

• Pros: Free of charge, great experience, no travelling/travel fees, can help give you a range of valuable concepts within the area, no prior grades or experience needed.

• Cons: Need to fit it in with prior commitments (school, work, homework/coursework, driving lessons/revision for theory test)

• 4Skills Work Experience - The Programme

BBC radio 1 apprenticeship/work experience/internship

• BBC radio 1 offers work experience/apprenticeships from 14+.

• No degree necessary.

• Not needed but any prior experience would be helpful.

• Radio 1 and 1 Xtra specializes in modern pop and ranges from popular songs in the current charts to "electronica, dance hip hop and indie" (BBC Radio 1 - Wikipedia)

• BBC Radio 1 - Get Started - Frequently Asked Questions

• Paid as it is long term.

• Looks great on CV and gives valuable experience.

• Can only complete one work experience placement per year.

• Not guaranteed you will get it, need to apply.

• To build CV add past work experience, personal achievements.

• Could create projects like blogs/websites, youtube videos and even playlists.

• Based in London.

• Duration 8-10 weeks.

• Pros: quite accepting with grades and prior experiences.

• Cons: Extremely high likely hood of not getting accepted.

Online radio presenting course:

• Skype with professionals with 45 years of experience in radio.

• £85 per hour (pay as you go)

• 1 day course = £350

• 2 day course = £700

• 3 day course = £1050

• Assessment = £150

• "studio quality radio training from your home".

• Get given home work to help make your presentation skills better..

• 1 to 1 calls.

• What you get once finishing: Full radio training, a show reel showing your skills in action, a personal report on your progress, help guidance and advice from your personal trainer, a Diploma in Radio Broadcasting if you pass, discounts on courses in the future.

• Radio courses star at 9:45 and finish at 3:00.

• Explains "how to work within music and talk radio - including phone - ins"

• Online Radio Presenter Training Course | The Radio School UK

• Pros: really beneficial prior experience to uni or another course/placement, virtual so can be fit in around college or work.

• Cons: expensive, may need to give up a couple of days to fit the hours given in.

Springpod online work experience:

• Social Media Marketing (springpod.com)

• Virtual social media marketing course.

• Open to anyone aged 13+.

• Free.

• Job sector: Marketing and communications.

• Receive a certificate of completion.

• Covers: an introduction into social media marketing industry, collecting and analyzing data, developing social media marketing strategy, creating content, monitoring engagement, maintaining a social community, pathways.

• Starts on demand and takes 7 hours to complete.

• Pros: Available straight away, free, can do whenever you want, looks great on CV and gives valuable experience.

• Cons: need to fit into schedule.

Freelancing job

• Means you don't work for a specific company but you offer your services. Manage yourself and what you want to do and people can request your service.

• These are the types of media related jobs/services people are offering on Top Designers & Creatives for Hire in January 2024 | Upwork

• Work to your schedule.

• Set your own fees.

• Do what ever hours you need to.

• Meet new people and gain customers.

• Maintain online presence.

• May need qualifications in whatever area you want to be in - for example if I wanted to do social media marketing and help people set up their own business online, I should do a course in that.

• Pros: work to what you want to do

• Cons: competition within job areas and locations with other freelancers, may be difficult income as you will just start out and no one will have used your services before.

Media production at Angian Ruskin university

• Uni degree

• Train in media production

• 3 years duration.

• Is local (11 miles) - could live at home.

• Tuition fee = £9,250 a year

• modules include: interMEDIAcy, creative moving image, sound, image, design, theorizing popular culture, Ruskin module, photography, digital media theory, motion graphics, non fiction filmmaking, research project in film and media, Fake news conflict and law, Major project.

• Need 96 UCAS points (2 A levels)

• Have lots of different facilities to use whilst taking the course.

• Apply for 2025.

• Save on accommodation by living at home, travel fees.

• Pros : near home, easy to get to, entry grades are decent.

• Cons : Might not feel like the "fresh start" I had hoped for as it is still very close to home.