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 Careers Service

Events - Working in the Media Event

 

Joining instructions: pdf or rtf

Description of event: This long-established, informal careers event is the prime focus for Cambridge students who want to find out more about careers in journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, science communication, media law and media management. Many of our alumni/ae now working in the sector benefitted from attending this event whilst at Cambridge.

The February 2011 Event attracted around 250 students (from first-year undergraduates to final-year PhDs and alumni). They were given the opportunity to meet 46 employers/professional bodies/course providers/individual graduates who had come along to talk about their opportunities and experiences to the visiting students and alumni.

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List of 2011 participants here

Open To: National and local media organisations who take on graduates regularly or from time to time; media course providers and media industry associations; individual graduates now working in media jobs (many are Cambridge alumni); and, if space allows, student media societies.

Cost: £100 to organisations and course providers. Please contact us if you feel this charge would be a barrier to your attendance. This income assists us in covering some of the costs of running the Event. There is no charge for individuals attending on their own behalf.

Further Information: Benefits to organisations include a chance to get the facts of media life across to enthusiastic students who are willing to learn; free publicity and free information about your organisation on the dedicated Media section of our Careers Service website.

Benefits to individual attendees include the opportunity to share experiences with your Cambridge contemporaries and with students still at the university, and to make new contacts which may be mutually beneficial.

Comments from the 2011 Event: "The whole event was managed very professionally and we were very impressed. We saw many good quality candidates for the vacancies we want to fill so we feel it was very much worthwhile attending."

"I met some really interesting students who were appreciative of the information that we gave them and in fact a number have already emailed me asking for further information."

"Great event, happy that we came."

The Careers Service runs informative careers evenings during the fortnight preceding the Event. As a result, students come to the Event briefed about working in the media and with more time for uninterrupted discussion with the participants during the course of the evening.

Event Programme: A website for our students is created for each event. At previous events, participants were asked to provide a career biography. For organisations, this included text about each organisation, together with a short biography for each representative attending the event. Individual graduate participants were asked to provide a biography only. These texts are published on the Event website and remain live for the whole of the following year, forming a major information source about the participants for our users. Shortly before the Event, we create a printed Event programme from these texts which is distributed to our students attending the Event. Please note: we may need to edit entries to suit the required format on the website and in the programme.

Disclaimer: Submitted booking forms will be acknowledged by us on receipt. We seek to offer our students the widest range of experience within this sector and so must reserve the right to decline a booking request.