Progressing your career in the creative sector is not necessarily easy. Traditionally, achieving promotion was all about moving up through one company, gathering skills, experience and expertise along the way. But while this scenario is becoming less common in industry as a whole, in the creative industries, a sector where 94% of all businesses employ less than 11 people, the challenges of career progression are even greater.
That’s the bad news. However, the good news is that, whether you’re looking inside your own organisation or thinking about moving on, there are a number of crucial steps you can take. What’s more, recent research has flagged up current and future skill needs for the sector, skills such as management, business and IT expertise. Skill gaps such as these provide an excellent opportunity for people with the right training to progress their career. But first of all, you need to ask yourself:
