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G:Weekly - Your Creative Careers Newsletter | Week 1️⃣3️⃣
Your weekly email from Global Academy to kickstart your career in media and entertainment ✨
Hey Sixth Form! 🎧📱
Happy Friday! It’s officially 2 weeks until your 1st 2024-2025 term ends.
The industry is starting to slow down as it pre-records, pre-schedules, and wraps up loose ends ahead of the festive holidays.
Some of you will be swamped with family over the festive break, but if you're not…Is there a side projection you’ve been meaning to finish?
Or you could spend some time looking at all the opportunities below that can kickstart your career in media and entertainment.
Warm regards,
Shahlaa ✨
EVENT: GLOBALS MAKE SOME NOISE - FESTIVE BUCKET COLLECTION
Globals Make Some Noise - Festive Bucket Collection
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
🚨Global has partnered with the wonderful & iconic Carnaby Street this year to bring festive cheer & spread the word of Global’s Make Some Noise.
This is to give vital support to those smaller UK charities, particularly at this time of year it is always so important.
You will gain some hands-on event experience with our Global HQ team.
Global’s Make Some Noise improves lives by working with small charities across the UK.
We believe everyone deserves to feel safe, feel well, feel included, and feel prepared. So we work across four key areas: providing shelter and safety, supporting physical and mental health, improving life skills, and preventing isolation.
🗓 All the details
Date: Tuesday 17th December
Time: Between 15:00 - 18:30 GMT
Location: The Gingerbread Shed, Carnaby Street, London
Age: 18+
📲 Register your interest below the deadline is Friday 13th at 15:00.
AWARDS: SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
Sony World Photography Awards - Open Competition
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
This competition is open to anyone who will be submitting single images taken in 2024. There are ten diverse categories to enter and you can enter up to three single images for free.
Prizes include $5,000, top Sony digital imaging equipment and so much more.
The Open competition rewards outstanding single images across ten (10) categories. Photographers should consider the category description when entering their work. Judges are looking for good composition, creativity, and clear photographs.
💻 Who can apply?
Anyone in the world, but under 16’s will need parental permission.
📅 Deadline: Friday 3rd January 2025
To apply, check out the full information below.
SUMMER INTERNSHIP: GOODNOTES - PRODUCT DESIGN
Goodnotes - Summer Product Design Internship
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
Join Goodnotes 2025 Summer Internship Program and elevate your skills, connect with bright minds, and be a part of something big.
About the role:
Launch into the world of Product Design, User Experience, and User Interface Design with an Internship at Goodnotes.
Elevate your career with hands-on design experiences, shaping your ideas into reality. In this internship, you won't be an observer—you'll be at the heart of the design action. They are looking for London interns for 2 different teams:
1. Monetisation Product Designer:
You’ll join the team focused on innovating the way users engage with premium features and exploring new business models that align with user value. This team works on seamless, user-centric solutions for monetisation that make our product both sustainable and delightful to use.
2. Education Team Product Designer:
Jump into shaping the future of learning with the Education Team at Goodnotes. Here, we explore classroom innovations with Goodnotes at the core and reimagine textbooks through AI-driven self-learning advancements. This is a young, cutting-edge team working on foundational and revolutionary products.
💻 Who can apply?
Penultimate or final year student in a related field
Advanced or Proficient level of English
You're passionate about digital note-taking
Strong visual design skills (including Figma)
Comfortable building and contributing to a design system
📅 Duration: Summer 2025 - 27 May 2025 (Tuesday) or 24 June 2025 (Tuesday)
📍 Location: London
To apply, find the link below
GRANT: WINDRUSH LEGACIES
948: Windrush Legacies Grant
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
The project, Windrush Legacies, is designed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Windrush through a contemporary lens.
948 will work specifically to address social, political + cultural issues through initiative-based projects and other digestible mediums
An independent judging panel will select two recipients of the 948 Windrush Legacies Grant, who will receive £2,500 to help bring a project to life that explores the theme of legacy—be it the one we inherit or the one we create.
They will pay tribute to the migration of Caribbean people who reshaped Britain’s cultural and creative landscape, empowering a new generation to carry this remarkable legacy forward.
💻 Who can apply?
18 years of age or older at the time of submission.
You must be a Windrush descendant*
DEADLINE - Sunday 8th December 2024
*If you’re applying as a collective or organisation, only one person needs to meet these criteria.
You can apply below
EVENT: APPRENTICESHIP CAFÉ
Apprenticeship Café:
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
The café is designed for individuals who are considering a Degree Apprenticeship.
The workshop will provide you with a unique opportunity to learn the skills and the knowledge to get through the selection process and progress with your career.
Learn about what a Degree Apprenticeship is and how it is structured
CV Workshop – how to improve or design your CV
Application Support – looking at different applications and how you can make yours stand out
Interview Skills – Looking at interview techniques, including online and AI
Assessment process – Looking at assessment types used by employers and how to approach them.
💻 Who can apply?
GCSE English and Maths (Grade 9-4/A-C*) or Level 2 Functional Skills or equivalent. You can talk to our advisers who will guide you if you do not have these qualifications.
You will need to be working towards, or have already achieved Level 3 qualifications eg A level/BTEC/T-Level.
Professional qualifications with relevant work experience will be considered.
📅 Duration: Saturday 14th December - 10:00 AM -12:30 PM
📍 Location: The University of West London
To apply, register your interest below.
WORK EXPERIENCE: WARNER RECORDS
Warner Records Work Experience
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
Warner Records is a record label of iconic, culture-shaping music & entertainment. Built on irreverent ideas, creative risks, and life-changing hits. Created as a home for artists—established and emerging, mainstream and maverick, legends and legends-to-be. Run by a fearless team of music obsessives. We are Warner Records.
This is an opportunity to work across the various departments in Warner Records. You will begin to understand various job roles and how major labels operate day to day.
💻 Who can apply?
T Level Students ONLY - The deadline is Friday 13th December.
📅 Duration: 1 working week, Monday-Thursday during Jan-March 2025
📍 Location: London
To apply, register your interest below.
JOB ALERT: STORMZY/MERKY FC MEDIA JOB ROLES
Merky FC - Media Job Roles
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
Merky FC is hiring multiple media roles including; Broadcast Assistant, Production Assistant, EDI Co-ordinator, and more! This is an opportunity to build your skills and work alongside Nationally recognised brandsMerky founded by British Artist Stormzy.
💻 Who can apply?
Young people of Black heritage aged 18 to 24
📅 Duration: TBC
📍 Location: Croydon, Greater London
FUNDED RESIDENCY: Åfjord Art (Norway)
Funced Research Residency and Exhibition
💡 What You’ll Be Doing:
Åfjord is located on the Fosen Peninsula in the Trøndelag region of central Norway. Åfjord is inviting artists to live and work exploring the notion of PLACE. The artist selected will be invited on a fully funded residency to research and prepare a piece of work for the arts festival Åfjord Art Month in November 2025.
💻 Who can apply?
All International Artists
📅 Duration: 4 Weeks in March 2025
📍 Location: Norway
Winter School Workshops
What You’ll Be Doing:
💡 Come to our Colleges for creative activities and pre-university advice:
make work across art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts
experiment with a variety of traditional and innovative equipment or techniques
get honest advice from our students and graduates; find out about their creative journeys
discover how different each of our College campuses are and what they could offer you.
Activities are free to attend, and materials and refreshments are provided.
Generate new work for your portfolio. 📅 Duration: Wednesdays 27 Nov, 4 and 11 December / 17:00 – 19:30 |
Students that took part in our Spring or Summer Schools You can also find an application guide here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/446600/Final-UAL_AW-Guide-2024_19.09.pdf |
Join a FREE Q&A with Mohammad Taher (The Airport Guy): The Influencer and Content Creator with Over 500,000 Followers
Are you passionate about social media content creation, becoming an Influencer, or working in the creative industry? This is your chance to gain exclusive insights from Mohammad Taher, known as The Airport Guy. Mo has captivated an online audience of over half a million, sharing fascinating content on aviation and the engineering that keeps it soaring.
What You’ll Learn:
📱 Create Engaging Social Media Content
Get tips and strategies for producing captivating content that resonates with audiences.
🚀 Steps to Becoming an Influencer
Learn what it takes to build a following and establish your presence in the digital world.
🎨 Working in the Creative Sector
Discover insider advice on entering and thriving in creative roles.
Event Details:
📅 Date: Monday, 9 December 2024
🕒 Time: 17:30 PM - 18:00 PM
📍 Location: Microsoft Teams (Link provided upon request)
To join, email Deborah Aladerun at [email protected] for the meeting link saying you’re a Global Academy student. Please note: This session will not be recorded, so be ready to join live!
WORK EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITY: Gain Experience with SPID Theatre!
Looking to gain hands-on experience in the arts, social media, digital communication, and more? Join SPID Theatre for a couple of weeks and develop your skills while supporting an organization that creates art and theatre advocating housing justice.
What You’ll Be Doing:
🎭 Craft Engaging Social Media Content
Help create and share content that promotes the theatre’s work and vision.
🎬 Support the Artistic Director
Attend meetings, shadow the Artistic Director, and gain insight into leadership and creative direction.
💡 Contribute to Creative Programmes
Assist with the delivery of dynamic theatre and arts projects.
Opportunity Highlights:
📅 Duration: 11th November - 14th December (3 days per week)
📍 Location: SPID Theatre, London
How to Apply:
Email your CV and cover letter to [email protected] to apply.
Start your journey in the creative world with SPID Theatre and experience the power of art for social change! If you’re successful we will approve the time out of college to attend the placement.
JOB ALERT: Launch Your Career in Post Production with Sky! 📡
Exclusive Post-Production Technical Operator Apprenticeship Opportunity for Year 13 and Year 14 Students
Step into the world of Broadcast and Post-production as a Post-Production Technical Operator Apprentice with Sky! Based in Osterley, you’ll work hands-on with the Edit Operations team, learning essential workflows and techniques across Sky’s diverse Content Creation teams—including Entertainment, News, Drama, and Sports. You’ll gain technical knowledge, support Sky’s creative departments, and build connections in a dynamic, supportive environment.
What You’ll Be Doing:
🎬 Post-Production Support
Assist with post-production tasks, manage incoming media, and prepare sequences for Audio turnovers.
📈 Develop Workflow Expertise
Get to know Sky’s processes inside-out and help resolve logistical and technical challenges.
🔧 Technical Collaboration
Work closely with Editing, Grading, and Audio Dubbing to refine your skills.
Apprenticeship Qualification:
This role includes 80% on-the-job training at Sky and 20% off-the-job learning with London South Bank University. You’ll learn best practices in media ingest, storage, and secure digital dispatch. Upon completion, you’ll receive a nationally recognized qualification and will be assessed for operational competence.
Opportunity Highlights:
📆 Start Date: 1 September 2025
📅 Duration: 15 months
📍 Location: On-site at Osterley (no hybrid option)
💰 Salary: £26,750 per annum
Qualifications Required:
Minimum of five GCSEs (A*–C / 9-4), including English and Maths, or BTEC Level 1 and 2.
What We’re Looking For:
No prior experience required—just a passion for post-production and a willingness to learn! Familiarity with editing tools like Avid, Da Vinci Resolve, or Adobe Premiere Pro is a bonus. Bring a strong work ethic, effective communication, and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
APPLY TODAY and take the first step in your post-production career with Sky!
JOB ALERT: Year 13 and Year 14 Check Out the Exciting Internships with NBCUniversal! 🎬
NBCUniversal operates over 20 diverse businesses across 30 countries, including news and entertainment TV networks, a premier motion picture company, renowned theme parks, and a leading streaming service.
What You’ll Experience:
Variety of Roles: Explore a wide range of internships across production, finance, post-production, marketing, tech solutions, publicity, scripted development, sales, operations, and more!
Global Opportunities: Gain hands-on experience in one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies.
Career Development: Build your skills, make valuable connections, and kickstart your career in the industry.
📅 Internship Period: Monday, 30th June 2025 – Friday, 17th July 2026, right after you finish your Final Major Project (FMP)!
Here are some more links you should check out for your job hunt 👀
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