3.6i How do those leaving education enter work in the creative industries? What is the split between self-employment and employment? To what extent is self-employment a choice versus a necessity and how does this vary by sector? What are the recruitment approaches that businesses are using? Are these focused on a certain level of education generally and for individual occupations? What is successful in helping businesses recruit younger workers outside of higher education?
Background
A resilient, skilled and diverse workforce, fit for the future, is at the core of a thriving creative sector. As a result, DCMS welcomes engagement on skills, training and workforce development. Ensuring creative workers have skills that match business and market needs, and are adaptable to future industry and consumer demand are central to DCMS policy. Support for skills sits alongside DCMS’s commitment to good work in the creative industries, underpinned by understanding working patterns, wages and incomes, and sustainable careers.
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- commerce, management, tourism and services
- human resources and industrial relations
- other commerce, management, tourism and services
- creative arts and writing
- creative and professional writing
- music
- performing arts
- screen and digital media
- visual arts
- economics
- education
- education policy, sociology and philosophy
- human society
- policy and administration
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