Creative Careers Festival
The Creative Careers Festival is your chance to meet with professionals working across a range of creative industries, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions, network, and take away top advice. The Festival is supported by a short online series of industry briefings to help you get started – see ‘Useful Resources’ for more information about how to access these.
“So useful... really useful... really engaging...
I loved the conversation. Great panellists with good advice”
‘The atmosphere was always really nice: relaxed but still engaging and rewarding and very understanding of and sympathetic to the concerns and questions of attendees!’
‘Being a newcomer to the UK Employment scene, these events provided me with insights to the workings of creative careers in this new country’
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Careers in Marketing and Communications
Thursday 22 January 5:00-6:30pm
In Person
The Creative Careers Festival opens with a fun, informative introduction to roles in Marketing, Communication and PR by friendly Cambridge alumni.
Tuesday 27 January 5:00-6:30pm
In Person
Speakers from the worlds of Broadcasting, Journalism, Production, and animation lead an interactive workshop on a wide range of careers in media.
Larian Studios Games Writing Workshop
Wednesday 28 Jan 4:00-5:30
Online
Get to grips with the joys and challenges of writing dialogue for video games in this exciting online workshop by critically-acclaimed video game developer, Larian Studios.
Arts Culture and Heritage Panel
Monday 2 Feb 5:00-6:30pm
In Person
Careers in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector can be inspiring and creative, but are they for you? This panel discussion with Cambridge alumni is your chance to find out.
Ceri Barnes: Life as an Animation Producer
Wednesday 4 Feb 4:00-5:30pm
In Person
Award-winning, Bafta, Primetime and Daytime Emmy nominated series producer Ceri Barnes on life as an Animation Producer.
In Conversation with Bilal Hasna
Thursday 5 Feb 5:00-6:30pm
In Person
Actor and playwright Bilal Hasna is the star of streaming hits Extraordinary (Star) and Dead Hot (Amazon Prime), in addition to the feature films Layla (Amrou Al-Kadhi, 2024) and Christmas Karma (Gurinder Chadha, 2025). He joins author Diarmuid Hester to talk about his time at Cambridge and making a career in film and television. This event is co-organised with Queens College, Cambridge.
Creative Industries Networking Event
Tuesday 10 Feb 4:30-6:00pm
In Person
Meet and make connections in a warm, informal setting with a range of approachable professionals from the Creative Industries. Media, production, broadcasting, trade and academic publishing are all represented. No prior networking experience required!
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Blog posts
- Don’t Wait – Create: Getting Started in Content Marketing
- From History to Heritage: How Shikha Dwivedi’s time in London led to her first job in a museum
- From Content Consumer to Creative: What I learned from my internship with the University of Cambridge Careers Service
- Wildlife and Specialist Factual Documentaries: Philippa Goff on Her Experience as An Assistant Producer
YouTube videos
Industry Briefings
These short recordings provide an overview and resources to help you explore careers in the Creative and Cultural Industries.
- An introduction to the Creative Industries
- An Introduction to Arts, Culture & Heritage Careers
- Arts & Humanities – Career Options and Research
- Starting out in Publishing
- Starting out in Film & Broadcast Media
- Starting out in Marketing
- Creative Freelancing
Here are examples of some of the videos you can find on our Creative Careers Playlist
- Interview with award-winning Documentary Producer, Adriana Timco
- Interview with Building Heritage Consultant Lee Bilson
- Freelancing in the Creative Industries – Alumni Panel, Creative Careers Festival
Further resources
Read our Sector Guides on careers in Arts and Heritage; Commercial Arts; Journalism; Marketing & Communications; Museums, libraries & archives; Performing Arts; Publishing; TV, radio & film. You'll also find many more Sector Guides, covering everything from Tech to Teaching.
Volunteering can be a great way to start building up experience - read our guide to find out more.
Sign up for our Careers Newsletters to stay updated about the Creative Careers Festival and other regular, relevant careers updates from Careers Consultants. We have specific newsletters for Arts, Culture & Heritage Careers and Media & Communications.