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Career Wednesday sessions today and every Wednesday!

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UoL_Careers&EmployabilityToday is ‘Career Wednesday’ and you can hear about Design for John Lewis at 2pm and find out how to sell yourself effectively by going to the 1-hour CV workshop at 3.30pm.

 

Career Wednesday is a chance for you to enhance your employability and gather information on the range of opportunities open to graduates.The initiative’s developed by the University’s Careers and Employability team, whereby each Wednesday employers are in the Enterprise@Lincoln building (next to the library) with the aim to help students and recent graduates to prepare for life after University.  Participation in a Career Wednesday session can be included as a chosen activity element of the Lincoln Award. See forthcoming Career Wednesday sessions this semester and register for future events and job vacancies.

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LSM freshers’ opportunity: Student Exchange 2014 in USA

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From Tom Nicholls, MSUM exchange co-ordinator, to all First Year LSM Students:

 

MSUM_logoWe have a student exchange with Minnesota State University MOORHEAD (MSUM) and you could be there in the Fall of 2014. 



There are opportunities to study on Moorhead’s Mass. Comm. (MP), Film Studies (FTV) & Music Industry (AP) programmes, plus the chance to spend a semester living in the U.S.A.

Come along to an information meeting to find out more and to talk to LSM students who went on the student exchange last year.  Thursday 21st November at 5.30pm in the Cargill Lecture Theatre (in the Main Academic building).

Paid Opportunity: Creative Internships at Quandary Productions

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LSM 2009 graduate Michael Henry, founder of Quandary Productions said:

Michael_HenryWe’re offering two lucky individuals the opportunity to make some extra cash, gain experience with a local (Lincoln-based) production company, and work with brands as diverse as LEGO, LYNX, PRINGLES, and GILLETTE. Interns will also get to work with us on our next feature film ‘TIME AND PLACE‘ (shooting will be from January to March 2014).

Our Creative Internship Programme is flexible to allow students to work around studies, and graduates to work around other forms of employment. Pay is variable dependent on how much work each individual puts in, and the performance of the two chosen individuals, who will have the opportunity to work together on briefs or alone.  Here’s how it works:  Continue reading →

Free Opportunity for Students at Salford Media Festival 2013

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Free opportunity for students from Salford Media Festival 2013.

Salford Media Fest 2013_NextGenIts ‘Next Generation’ programme promises to deliver two invaluable days of learning, training and inspiration for the next generation of media professionals on the 21st and 22nd November at the University of Salford.

How about a series of master classes, panel discussions and practical workshops delivered by industry professionals and leading experts in TV, Radio, Digital Media, Film, Audio, Animation and Broadcasting? If you go along to the Next Generation two-day programme you can also get advice on work experience opportunities, careers and employment and will be able to listen to industry professionals share their experience and opinions on how to break into the world of TV and media – and stay there! Reserve Your Place – but please check with your tutors first – and see the line-up of industry speakers at Next Generation here.

Full-time Paid Job for a Community Radio Station Co-ordinator

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UniofBedfordshire_logoFancy filling a full-time job vacancy as a Community Radio Station Co-ordinator at the University of Bedfordshire, based at Park Square in Luton, with an annual salary of £38,522?  It’s a permanent position, here’s the spec from its site:

The Community Radio Station Co-ordinator will take responsibility for managing Radio LaB 97.1fm, the community radio station which has its studio within the University.  Under its license the station must engage audiences of young people (11-18yrs), students and young professionals (18-28yr olds), and the 55+ group.  The Station Co-ordinator will have enthusiasm, dynamism and be a champion of the station within the community and University. S/he will be an excellent communicator, have a flair for teaching and experience of the budgeting, technical oversight and management of a community radio station.

The closing date’s by noon on the 20th November 2013. Click here for more details and how to apply.  Good luck and please let us know if you get the job …

Competition: Design a Feature Wall for the University’s Library

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From the University of Lincoln’s Library:

Job VacancyAre you a budding designer? Think you can work to a live brief? Then we want YOU to design a feature wall for the new library extension!  Not only will you be in with a chance to have your work featured in The Library, but three chosen winners will also receive a Nexus tablet!

Entries must be in by Monday 16th December 2013 at midnight.  See the brief and guidelines here.

Opportunity: Join New Wave – Media, Music & Arts Show on SIREN FM

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From LSM’s Principal Lecturer Bryan Rudd:
New Wave_logoNEW WAVE – The LSM’s weekly media, music and arts show on SIREN FM needs YOU! You’re invited to get involved from across all three years and across all programmes.

Jack Poston will be the programme series editor, and we need folks from all areas of media: film, TV, photography, audio, design, etc to present; research; record; edit; and run the live studio. NEW WAVE will be a sort of sexed up version of Radio 4 type Media Show/Front Row/Woman’s Hour mix with a liberal coating of fairy dust sprinkled on it (in other words aimed at a younger audience!). This is a great opportunity not only for all radio students but for ALL students to talk and present all areas of media, music and culture. We’ll also be targeting members of staff as contributors! Please get in touch ASAP with either me, email: brudd@lincoln.ac.uk or Jack Poston. Thanks.

Opportunities: Design an NHS App and a Poster for New Media Lincs

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Hazel DonnellyCall out for creatives from Hazel Donnelly at New Media Lincs. It’s the LSM’s social enterprise initiative, which links students with businesses and arts & crafts organisations to provide creative media solutions.  Hazel sums up the latest opportunities for students:

Can you design a mobile app for the NHS to promote Family and Healthy Lifestyle services? This is an exciting project with immense potential. Open to Year 2 and Year 3 students.

Our fledgling business New Media Lincs requires a poster made to promote our services to students. The poster will be used for the Careers Fair this year at the university and for subsequent promotional opportunities.

If you’re interested, please email Hazel: hdonnelly@lincoln.ac.uk

2014 Trainee Scheme from Sara Putt Associates

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Sara-Putt-logoNicola Lees, a great guest on LSM’s R&D module, wanted to let you know about the 2014 Trainee Scheme from Sara Putt Associates.  It’s an ‘independent UK agency for film and TV heads of department’. Applicants must have less than three years’ industry experience and you’re working in camera, sound, edit, production and art departments. Deadline to apply is 31st October 2013. Here are the details from Nicola:  Continue reading →