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2026
10.00am - 5.00pm

Event

C&E: Create your career programme

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The topic and focus for this term is identifying the skills within your practice and pathways you can explore for your creative career

This programme is exclusively for UAL students, alumni and graduates.

For the autumn term Create your Career programme, sessions delivered will aim to support participants to:

  • Identify the skills within your creative practice and shape a career that works for you.
  • Reflect on your creative practice, what you value about it and how this meets evolving needs for creative careers within and outside of the creative industries
  • Define and explore what a creative pathway and positive outcome means to set goals for your future (or current) creative career.

This programme is designed as a mix between lecture-style and participant-led activities. Providing an online space for you to not only gain (or renew) knowledge and insights but, to share and reflect on your creative practice and future pathways.

Who is the programme for:

This programme is aimed at current UAL pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate students. UAL graduates/alumni are welcome to join.

The programme this term is particularly beneficial for:

  • Anyone feeling curious or unsure about career options
  • Anyone keen to understand what creative pathways and opportunities exist for a creative career
  • Anyone who wants to set goals for their creative practice, pathways and future creative career

What to expect:

See full agenda of activities and times below

Our padlet:

We've created a padlet with a selection of resources, pre-recorded material and activity sheets designed to support students who are looking to recognise, identify and describe their skills, keen to explore what pathways they can explore for a

Through the programme and padlet, you can access different styles of learning:

  • Play, watch and engage the pre-recorded videos
  • Use the activity sheets to practice and apply your new knowledge
  • Interact with our polls, feedback and questions

The padlet includes interactive polls, to get the most out of the experience we encourage all students who sign up to the programme commit to:

  • Commit time to your employability daily
  • Be curious
  • Be proactive

Any questions about accessing this programme?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact us at careers-support@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.


Register now to secure your place.


Any questions about accessing this programme?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact us at careers-support@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.

For more details about Careers & Employability, visit arts.ac.uk/students/student-careers or follow us on Instagram @careers_employability.


Image credit: Confidence by Fruzsina Menyhei, BA Illustration.