NEW SKILLS

NEW SKILLS

Learning a new skill which can add to your skills set is a great way to boost your employability. This can relate to your main career aim, or it may be a new skill which can support it. You can choose a new skill from the other sections on this website, or select something from this page.

Creative Writing Masterclass: Corrina Campbell
ALL STUDENTS

One of the skills you asked for was to do with creative writing. Creative storytelling is important in many roles and a vital part of social media communications. You may even be a budding novelist! In this masterclass, picture book author, Corrina Campbell, gives an hilarious insight into creative writing and shares some of her best tips and and tricks.

Creative Writing Exercises for Beginners
ALL STUDENTS

This video continues to look at creative writing. This short video provides 7 practical tips and ideas to start creative writing for beginners.

Teach Yourself Creative Writing
ALL STUDENTS

This video takes a dive into how to teach yourself creative writing. Published young adult author and writing coach Ingrid Sundberg explains three simple steps on how to become your own creative and fiction-writing powerhouse.


Hip Hop and Shakespeare: Akala
ALL STUDENTS

This continues to look at language, but from an angle which shows that historical wordsmiths, such as Shakespeare, are not that different to modern rappers. Akala demonstrates and explores the connections between Shakespeare and hip-hop, and the wider cultural debate around language and its power.

Creative Ways to Use Social Media for Storytelling
ALL STUDENTS

This video focuses in on storytelling for social media. Want to make your social media content stand out? Improve your storytelling. In this session with videographer and YouTuber Sawyer Hartman, you'll get tips to find your own voice and learn how to use storytelling to better share your message on social media.

Writing Compelling Content for Social Media:
Deanna O'Connor
ALL STUDENTS

This video explores ways to create interesting and engaging content for social media. The video looks at strategies to hone your content creation abilities to use the most popular social networks to best advantage and create content that pops, encouraging likes, clickthrough and shares across all your channels.

Developing a Social Media Strategy: Latasha James
ALL STUDENTS

This video continues with social media, but here it is the process to develop a social media strategy.


Promoting Your Event on Social Media
ALL STUDENTS

Here the focus is on social media tactics to promote events. Millions of events are being promoted on social media every day. These 6 tactics are very powerful to promote events on social media and ensure your event is a sellout!

Networking for Student Success: Isaac Serwanga
ALL STUDENTS

Networking is an important skill to advance your creative work and career. Networking is an art best taught early! Isaac Serwanga puts forward his theory on networking for success and breaks down networking at the student level to 3 main points.

Turning Networking Upside Down: Jeff Slobotski
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Here networking is reimagined. Jeff reckons everything you know about networking is wrong. Learn how to view networking not as collecting business cards and contacts for personal gain, but how to truly engage others with warmth and genuineness as a means to learn the stories of others. It's about connecting not collecting.

Networking - Why it Matters: Paul Taylor
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Here is another video on why networking matters and how to do it better. Breaking the glass ceiling that separates us from our dream job sometimes seems unachievable. Paul explains the solution lies in the power of networking. Paul Taylor is Global Head of Sales Strategies and Initiatives for Global Transaction Services.

Networking to Kickstart Your Career: Dovas Zacas
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A final video on networking. While pursuing his Business Studies degree Dovas managed to live every student's dream - get oneself a genuinely wished-for job. Based on experience and interesting facts, his story encourages us all to reconsider job hunting. It tells us about the importance of being different, daring and determined to achieve even the most ambitious career aims.

Creating a Portfolio Career: Dr. P Baptiste
ALL STUDENTS

Many creatives have what are called a portfolio career. That means doing several part-time roles or jobs to make up your living. It requires its own skills set. Ever wanted to know what you can do to diversify your career? How can you create a varied portfolio career instead of just one career? The presenter works as a general practitioner while wearing multiple different hats the remainder of the time. To diversify means you can have multiple interests and also develop multiple streams of income too.

Redefining Work - Portfolio Careers: Helen Wiles
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This video carries on with the theme of portfolio careers. A portfolio career is an increasingly popular professional choice. Helen Wiles (MPhil, MIfL) has a portfolio career which combines owning a web & graphic design agency with communications projects and education roles. She blogs here about what it's really like carving out an ethical and sustainable portfolio career and how jobs of the future will increasingly be portfolio based.

Creating a Professional Portfolio
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This video is about portfolio selection and development with a focus on design portfolios. What makes for a good design portfolio? How should you organise your portfolio? What projects should you show in a portfolio? How do you present and talk about your portfolio work? In this video, Matthew and Petrula break down the MUST haves in a portfolio. They talk about out the do's and don'ts in a portfolio and how little things like your contact form will affect whether they do or not.

Using Photoshop for Beginners
ALL NON-GRAPHIC STUDENTS

Learning how to use Photoshop is a great skill for any creative. This video covers the basics of getting started using Photoshop to create graphic designs.

Using Photoshop for Illustration
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Another video on using Photoshop. This video shows you how to get started creating illustration and art.


Getting Started with Premiere Pro
ALL NON-FILM STUDENTS

Video is everywhere. Being able to edit video is a very useful skill. This in-depth session gets you started with Premiere Pro in under 2.5 hours from Adobe Master Trainer Valentina Vee. Learn everything you need to get started editing in Premiere Pro right now.

How to Publish a Video Game
GAMES STUDENTS

Publishing is an area you wanted more knowledge about. This video explores how to publish a video game and whether to self-publish or go for a commercial publisher.

How to Self-Publish a Book
ALL STUDENTS

Continuing with publishing, this video looks at book publishing. After one year of being a self published author, the presenter breaks down the steps she took to publish a children’s book series.


How to Get Money for Your Film
MEDIA STUDENTS

How can you make money from your film? With the help of a few special guests like David Sandberg, Colin Levy, Seth Worley, and Ryan Polly... Ryan talks about how you can get money for your film and if you even need to.

Film Distribution Tips: Mark Harris
MEDIA STUDENTS

Film distributors play a big role in how films are released. In this Film Courage video interview, Filmmaker Mark Harris shares his thoughts on what no one will tell you about film distributors.

How to Set up a PA System
ALL NON EVENTS STUDENTS

If you are a musician, or are creating an event, you may need a PA system. In this beginner's guide, Sam gives a step-by-step guide to setting up a PA sound system for bands, DJ's & events.


DJing for Beginners 1: Alison Wonderland
ALL STUDENTS

Thinking about a portfolio career or are you a producer or performer? Perhaps you could try DJing in the evening? This is the first of 3 videos looking at DJing basics with Alison Wonderland.

DJing for Beginners 2: Alison Wonderland
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This is the 2nd of 3 videos looking at DJing basics with Alison Wonderland.

DJing for Beginners 3: Alison Wonderland
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This is the 3rd of 3 videos looking at DJing basics with Alison Wonderland.