Career in Media Industry

Career in Media Industry is one of the most popular and competitive of all graduate career areas but if you follow the advice given by us, your chances of career will be greatly improved! Whether you hope to get into T.V Media, Radio, Publishing Media, Advertising Media with audio visuals, Journalism or the Theatre, then you must Begin your planning early.

In your first or second year get relevant practical skills (writing for Inquire, presenting for Canterbury Student Radio, Film Making Society, computing skills such as Quark or In-Design). Canterbury Student Radio has very good equipment and will give you useful live broadcast skills for your CV. If you're going for journalism you'll need a portfolio of articles you've had in print to show editors.

Prepare a media CV and covering letter. It MUST be focused towards the media job you're aiming for and be of high quality - a general CV won't work. See our CV examples where you will find an example media and creative CVs and actor's CV, and a media covering letter and pick up our free CVs Booklet from the Careers Service reception.

A lot of postgraduate media courses have sprung up. The better ones may aid your chances of entry but choose those that teach the PRACTICAL job skills required and not just media theory! If they offer a placement with an organisation in the media as part of the course even better. These courses tend to be expensive and many graduates will get into the media without them. See our postgraduate study pages See our journalism page and publishing page for respective courses.

Media Recruitment Agencies and Job Scope in Media Industry

There are a large number of media recruitment agencies, but be aware that many of them will be looking for good word-processing and secretarial skills or alternatively relevant experience in the media.