Creative Careers

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Creative Careers

• SMST120-06A The Creative Industries

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Potential Creative Careers

• advertising
• architecture
• arts and antiques
• crafts
• design
• designer fashion
• film

• software design
• music
• performing arts
• publishing
• television
• radio

What job DOESNT include creativity?
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The NZ Creative Landscape

• 4-5 of workforce employed in the creative
  industries
• Portrait of an artist (CNZ)
• 70 self employed or freelance (compared with 13
  in the labour force)
• Median Income 20,700 (compared with 27,934 in
  the labour force)
• http//www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/archive.html?re
  cord1027

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Creative Industries Career Statistics Arts
Antiques
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Creative Industries Career Statistics Film
Video
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N.Z Creative Landscape Employment Infrastructure

• PACE scheme
• Online Communities, e.g.
• http//www.thebigidea.co.nz/

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Work Creativity

• Out
• Hierarchal firms
• Jobs for life
• Rigid work controls
• In
• Flexible structures
• Flexible employment
• Autonomous work

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Characteristics of the Creative Economy

• Creative work is often
• Free lance contractors working on
• Project-orientated work with
• Temporary organisations

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Developing a Creative Career

• Fan
• Student
• Crafting Collaboration
• Professional Creative

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The creative career glamorous or strenuous?

• Flexibility lack of stability
• Government corporate involvement
• influence on creative pursuits
• Specialisation multi-disciplinary
• Work/life balance
• Macro issues
• Workplace community?
• Sustainability?
• Age discrimination?
• Technological discrimination?

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Creative CareersThe Jobs of the Future

• "The creative industries are growing far faster
  than the rest of our economy, and are widely
  recognised as providing the jobs of the future.
  It is important that youngsters are aware of the
  opportunities open to them in the creative
  sector, and what it takes to make a success of
  such a career. (UK Culture Minister Janet
  Anderson, 2000)