interview prep & assessment workshops for Derby students

Interview Preparation

Tuesday 24^th April 2012

12-1pm

Room N109

Successful interview candidates start to prepare for interview well in advance of the big day. There is a lot more to it than most candidates appreciate, therefore attending this workshop will help to improve your interview performance and put you ahead of others.

Assessment Centre Workshop

Thursday 26^th April

12-2pm

Room N111, Kedleston Road

This practical interactive workshop will enable you to understand what recruiters are looking for at assessment centres and extended job interviews and will help you to prepare to impress the selectors. Trying out some typical exercises during the workshop will help you to overcome some of the anxieties associated with this part of the selection process.

Please book online at www.derby.ac.uk/careers.

Careers in the civil service session for Derby students

Careers in the Civil Service

Tues. 24^th April 2012

1-2pm

Room N401, Kedleston Road

Did you know that in addition to the central Civil Service in London, there are 35 Civil Service Departments located in the East Midlands alone? Nick Tooley from the Civil Service HR Strategy & Policy Department based in Nottingham will take you through Civil Service employment opportunities throughout the UK, including Fast Stream. You will also find out about the skills and aptitudes they look for in candidates, the recruitment process and timescales for application. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out about the wide range of career options available.

Format photography festival co ordinator vacancy

FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL COORDINATOR

Closing date for applications: 16th May 2012 at 5pm GMT

£20,000 pro rata

A unique opportunity to be part of a successful team delivering a leading International Photography Festival.

Based in Derby UK, the biennale FORMAT International Photography Festival and the off-year programmes offer a diverse mix of activity including portfolio reviews, exhibitions, open calls, commissions, mass participation projects, workshops and more... www.formatfestival.com

FORMAT Photography Festival is looking for a Coordinator to organise the administration and support the delivery of the 2013 edition. Working closely with the FORMAT Artistic Director you will be managing schedules and updating systems, supporting the development of and delivering on programme areas as well as managing the FORMAT Assistant and Festival Volunteers.

You will need to have experience of and a passion for working with photography and knowledge of coordinating major projects or festivals. With great communication skills, you must be able to juggle a variety of responsibilities and respond positively to challenges.

Full-time fixed-term post to commence early June 2012 - May 2013
Salary: £20,000 pro-rata

To apply please download the application pack below

• Job details - Description & Person Specification• Application Form• Equal Opportunities Form• FORMAT Information Sheet 

To request a paper version / information contact Hannah: theoffice@derbyquad.co.uk  / 01332 285444

Closing date for applications:      16th May 2012 at 5pm GMT
Interview date:                            22nd May 2012

Unpaid three month PA Internship Rachel Carter Sculpture, Derbys.

About Rachel Carter Sculpture
The nature of Rachel's work is to design and create sculptural pieces for the garden or landscape setting, using mild
steel and woven willow.
Trained at The University of Derby in 3D Sustainable Design, she mixes her love of art and design, with her passion
for the garden and the environment. New sculptures designed through the commission process are created and
offered for sale through Galleries, Exhibitions and online as limited edition pieces.
Rachel's studio is based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire with five other designer/makers to create the collective group 'Shed 2
Studios'.
Over the coming months Rachel will be sending sculptures to the USA, France and Ukraine, exhibiting at the
RHS Chelsea Flower Show, undertaking a large scale commission and planning new work which will be
exhibited in the USA in 2013. It is an exciting time in Rachel’s career which will hopefully see her work
becoming recognised internationally as well as nationally.
Job Description
There are three key areas that an intern would work within which are; day to day admin, research &
development, and finally, exhibition planning. Each area requires different skills but with an underlining
organisational quality.
Day to day responsibilities could include:
• Answering calls, emails
• Bookkeeping
• Organising deliveries of sculptures
• Sourcing materials
• Liaising with service providers such as PR, web designer, couriers, accountant or marketing designer.
Research & Development
This may be assisting with the development of a new product range or process, or conducting research on
any given subject that is part of an ongoing commission.
Exhibition Planning
During the year Rachel undertakes a number of exhibitions with her work which range from a simple
installation for an exhibition to organising a trade stand at a prestigious event such as RHS Chelsea Flower
Show. Responsibilities could include:
• Admin such as health and safety forms, site plans, delivery organisation, wrist bands and passes for
exhibitions, travel arrangements, accommodation booking, ordering site services such as Electric and
water.
• Liaising with curators & galleries for promotional items for shows and exhibitions, delivery of sculptures,
de-installation etc
Who should apply?
• This role requires an organised individual who can adapt to a range of responsibilities within a creative
business. Ideally they should have a good understanding of the creative industries as it is very different to
many business sectors.
• Someone who could work independently from their own initiative and would be confident to run the
business when Rachel is away at shows and exhibitions.
• Reliable, friendly and helpful.
• A problem solver, the ability to think differently to provide solutions to a problem.
Skills
• Good telephone manner and polite to even the most difficult curators or customers.
• Computer skills are essential
• Word and excel or pages and numbers if on a mac system
• Photoshop knowledge
Notes
Although this is initially an unpaid internship position, Rachel is looking to take on a personal assistant in the
near future and is hopeful to find the right candidate for the position through this internship.
The initial position is for immediate start for a three month period on a part time basis.

Contact Rachel:
Shed 2 Studios,10A Heanor Road,Ilkseton. Derby, DE7 8DX
07957432296
info@rachelcarter.co.uk
www.rachelcarter.co.uk

Creative Pioneers UK creative apprenticeships@intenships

Hello and welcome to the Creative Pioneers Challenge – a nationwide search for digital natives and creative entrepreneurs.
We’re offering up to 300 people in the UK help to find work in the creative industries.  Opportunities available include apprenticeships and internships, being offered by 100 creative and digital media businesses. If you are ready to start your own business instead, we want to put you in touch with the people who can help make your business fly.
More info and apply here.

Looking for a fashion placement across the UK?

Looking for a fashion placement across the UK?
Manchester Fashion Recruitment agency based in Manchester and London and UK wide opportunities

Amplify 2012 - Bringing ideas to life!

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Amplify your ideas with Antenna's second Amplify Awards scheme, offering tailored business support to budding business start-ups, worth up to £5000.
We're looking to help entrepreneurs from all walks of life including individuals and new enterprises. All we ask is that you're over 18 and that you've got an idea which will put you - and Antenna - firmly on the radar.
More than anything we want to nurture true innovation and originality, so the more unique your idea, the more support you'll get - it's as simple as that.
Our award offers a diverse range of practical resources from office and studio space to professional services, mentoring and training. Plus, we could help you find new sources of funding and investment.
More information at Amplify@Antenna

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Global games developer creates more than 100 new jobs across the Midlands

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Hello and welcome to the Creative Pioneers Challenge – a nationwide search for digital natives and creative entrepreneurs.
We’re offering up to 300 people in the UK help to find work in the creative industries.  Opportunities available include apprenticeships and internships, being offered by 100 creative and digital media businesses. If you are ready to start your own business instead, we want to put you in touch with the people who can help make your business fly.

Creative Enterprise Hub Leicester

The Creative Enterprise Hub project provides a range of business support for the creative industries in Leicester. Using our knowledge and experience of the sector, we have devised a package of support to help people in Leicester to start their own creative businesses and to assist creative businesses already trading to grow and succeed.

Managed by Leicester City Council as part of the LCB Depot team, the project began in July 2010 and is based at Phoenix Square. 

Email thehub@lcbdepot.co.uk

Participation in the project is subject to eligibility criteria. Call us on 0116 242 2902 to find out more.

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Fashion design vacancies @John Lewis.closing date 15 Apr 2012

John Lewis have contacted us with two graduate fashion design vacancies  - womenswear and childrenswear.Open to graduates and those completing this academic year.
Details below:

They are LIVE on the John Lewis website from 5TH APRIL 2012, closing date 15TH APRIL 2012.
Good luck if you are applying and Derby students and graduates can seek advice and support from the Career Development Centre with their applications.

The John Lewis Partnership is unique. It’s like no other place you have worked before, or will ever work again. Just one of the reasons for this is that we put the happiness of our people – our Partners – at the heart of everything we do.

1.We are currently looking for exceptional Fashion Design Graduate with a strong focus on Childrenswear to join our Design Team from July 2012. 

2.We are currently looking for exceptional Fashion Design Graduate with a strong Womenswear focus to join our Design Team from July 2012

12 month fixed term contract

£18,000pa + exceptional benefits

 You will be an integral member of the Design team working in collaboration with buying offices and buying related functions to develop a product assortment that is market leading and will delight our customers.

Researching, developing and collating trend information and producing trend boards to communicate your recommendations on colour, fabric and styling for forthcoming seasons, you will need a strong understanding and awareness of the John Lewis customer and how to move the product assortment forward.

Essentially, you will need an extensive understanding of CAD and Illustrator systems and a strong awareness of garment components and construction.  You must also be a confident self starter with a natural enthusiasm and motivation towards proving your ability within this field. Strong team working skills and the ability to express your own point of view are essential as is a creative, organised and committed approach.

To be eligible for this role, you must be a current Design Graduate or due to Graduate from a Design course in 2012.

Join us and we’ll ensure your job is not only fulfilling and rewarding but suited to the way you work best as an individual. You will also be rewarded with a competitive salary, partnership bonus, discount and pension scheme and a host of benefits unique to the partnership.

Call out for artists – exhibition opportunity, Royal Derby Hospital (deadline: 7-5-2012)

Call out for artists – exhibition opportunity, Royal Derby Hospital (deadline: 7-5-2012)

The Autumn/Winter 2012 visual arts season at the Royal Derby Hospital is being guest-curated with Antoinette Burchill on the theme Using Light.

There will be approximately 12 artists selected for exhibition spaces across the Royal Derby Hospital. Artists are welcome to broadly interpret the theme. This could be thougha range of medium including (but not exclusively)- painting, drawing, photography, mixed media. In your artist statement, you’ll need to articulate how or why light plays an important role, aspect,or function in your work.

This is an unpaid opportunity,however, there is a potential audience of over 7000 members of staff and an annual visitor numbers of 1.5million. We will publicise you and your work through the season’s brochure, the exhibition interpretation boards, internal and external communication routes and online through the website and social media channels.

We encourage sale or commissioning of artists being exhibited, asking for a 20% donation from any successful transactionscreated through the hospital exhibition. These donations will contribute tothe Arts in Hospital Charity, which will be reinvested for future arts engagement activity.

The air: arts to aid wellbeingprogramme (http://airarts.net/) supports the healing process with high quality art, helping to create a therapeutic environment and a place in which patients, visitors and staff can engage positively with their surroundings.  We have run an exhibitions programme in the public corridors at the hospital for five years featuring the work of over sixty artists. The intention of air arts is to positively affect the experience of all those who use the building whether assisting them in negotiation their route around, offering positive distraction, therapeutic interaction and ‘light relief’. Artwork for the autumn/winter season will be selected from those that best fit these ambitions.

Dates

The selected work will be hung during September 2012, the season launch event will take place late September/early October 2012 (dates to be confirmed). The exhibition will be taken down in March 2013.

To apply for this opportunity, you need to submit:

·         Up to 8 images of existing work, preferably in a PowerPoint presentation with your name as the filename. (If there are other works available, please indicate this.)

·         An image index, stating, for each artwork: the title, dimensions (height x width x depth) year created, details of any technical requirements for display.

·         Artist CV, including postal address and contact phone and email address.

·         Artist statement (maximum 150 words).

·         Short biography (maximum 50 word).

·         Website or blog links

·         If your artworks have particular technical requirements, you’ll need to detail what these are in your submission.

Submissions must be suitable for the hospital environment and appropriate for family audiences. All 2D artworks must be mirror-plated;clip frames will not be suitable.

Submissions are only accepted by email to: curatorialspace@gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is Monday 7 May at 5pm.

Artists will be contacted week commencing 21 May regarding selection. The curatorial decisions are final and will not be discussed.

Marketing Assistant vacancy

Live & Local - Surprising shows in surprising places

Delivering high quality art experiences to over 200 communities across the East and West midlands, Live & Local is a National Portfolio Organisation of the Arts Council, England.

Marketing Assistant

£13,862 pro rata (0.6 FTE / 21 hours per week / flexi time)

Marketing Assistant will join a team of five in Warwick and assist the Marketing Officer in providing publicity support for all Live & Local activities with specific responsibility for print management. They will also provide general administrative support within the office in conjunction with the Administration assistant. You should be an efficient and enthusiastic person with good organisational, communication and computer skills, a friendly personality, good written English and numeracy abilities and an interest in the arts.

Deadline: Noon Wednesday 11^th April 2012.

Interviews: Wednesday 25th April 2012.

Application via application form only.  Application pack available for download at www.liveandlocal.org.uk

TEMPORARY P/T ARTS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

LEISURE AND CULTURE

CIVIC CENTRE, ARNOLD

Ref No: LRS05

Band 8: £16,653 - £17,754 per annum

25 hours a week

Temporary maternity cover initially for a period of up to six months

Do you have at least 3 years’ experience of delivering participatory Arts and a relevant degree or equivalent?  Are you self motivated and dynamic and do you possess excellent promotion, marketing and communications skills?  If so, this could be the exciting opportunity for you.

You will be responsible for developing participatory arts activities and opportunities for our residents, drawing upon the priorities of our local Arts Strategy and working closely with external bodies and partners.  You will also help develop the Borough’s Bonington Theatre by working alongside its user groups.

Gedling Borough Council is an ambitious local authority seeking to actively engage with its residents through leisure and culture.  This post will be based within a pleasant parkland setting located 3 miles north east of Nottingham City Centre where free onsite parking is available.

Download details on line at www.gedling.gov.uk or contact Personnel Services for further details and an application pack.  Telephone 0115 9013864 (24 hour answer service) or email pod@gedling.gov.uk.

Please quote reference number LRS05 on all correspondence.

Closing date for completed applications is 13 April 2012.

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Friar Gate studios networking event Wed 4th April 2012

Michael Fisher, managing director of one of the top 5 UK design agencies outside London - Linney Design in Mansfield - will be the guest speaker at the next Friar Gate Studios networking evening on Wednesday 4th April.

Michael will talk about how he built up Linney’s design business from just one employee – himself – to a team of over 70 people servicing clients including McDonalds, Yamaha Europe, Molson Coors and Waterstones. Michael’s presentation should be valuable for anyone running their own design or creative services business who would like to learn from the experiences of a successful regional agency.

Michael will talk about the changes affecting business and the growing pressure marketeers are under to deliver more products to more markets through more channels. Showing examples of Linney campaigns, he will talk about how his agency helps its clients responds to these pressures by taking an integrated approach – providing everything from conceptual brand consultancy and design, to advertising, film production, digital and print.

Michael will discuss winning new business, managing client relationships and developing new services. He will also talk about the leadership and management issues which underpin a successful company, including the importance of culture and values, and of developing people and teams.

Linney Design is part of the £75 million Linney Group, a family business founded in 1851 which also includes print and distribution services. Linney Group is located on a 33-acre purpose-built site in Mansfield, North Nottinghamshire. Michael Fisher sits on the executive board of the Linney Group. More information at www.linney.com

Anyone interested in business, design and creativity is welcome. If you would like to attend, please RSVP as soon as possible to fgs@friargatestudios.co.uk so we can cater correctly for drinks and snacks, which will be available at no cost.

Come along!
The venue is Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street, Derby DE1 1EE. The evening will start at 6pm with Michael Fisher speaking at 6.30pm for around 45 minutes including Q&A. Afterwards, guests will have the opportunity to continue networking until 8.30pm. This is the latest in a series of popular networking events put on by Friar Gate Studios to support creative businesses. Find out more at at http://www.friargatestudios.co.uk/events_diary.cfm