1. Part 4 - employment

2. Employment opportunities
Full-time - There is no real legal definition for what it means to work full-time. It’s completely up to the employer. The FLSA or otherwise known as the Fair Labour Standards Act does not include definitions for full-time and part-time employment.
Part-time - Much similar to the full-time job role, there is no set hours to be classed as part-time working. It is completely down to the employer.
Freelance - Some people think the term freelance means to not have a proper job, but that would be incorrect. The term freelance comes from the middle ages when there was two types of knights, one would fight for just one king, and other knights who would fight for anyone who paid them. A freelancer is someone who pursues a profession without being committed to one employer.
Permanent - A permanent job is one without an ending date, like the opposite of a temporary job, although the permanent is slightly misleading as you can leave anytime you want. You are also paid directly from the employer.
Temporary - Temporary workers tend to only have a limited time contract and lacks any sort of long term contracts or employment.

3. Entry routes into the media
Networking – networking is reaching out to contacts, old friends or people you might know already within the media. You could ask them to help with work, volunteering or just helping out to show off your skills within the media.
Adverts in the press – work adverts found within papers or online, for example, the Guardian website has a lot of job opportunities for mostly people who have lots of experience. You can also use their contact details to look for smaller jobs or ask if they know anyone looking for less experienced people.
Work Experience – Experience work first hand in a workplace environment. This means you typically work for free but sometimes the employer will pay you, even if they don’t pay you it’s more about the experience and what it’s like to work in the area of your choosing.
Voluntary work – Voluntary work means working for free or voluntarily. Similarly to work experience, you work for nothing but gain knowledge and most of the time, contacts in the media. This will help in the future for jobs.
Personal website – A personal website is a great way to show off your skills within the chosen media. Very similar to a showreel, a personal website can be in greater detail about yourself and show off your work.
Showreel – A showreel is way to show off your work in an organised fashion. Taking the media sector for example, you would normally have a showreel of all your best work saved digitally so that you can easilly access it and show employers.

4. Job Roles
Creative – The creative job role typically work on advertising campaigns through different mediums, such as film, animation and apps. They can also sometimes work on products, packaging and location design, for example, filming sets.
Editorial – an editor is someone who works closely with the director editing for long hours in a suite with other assistants and trainees on big productions. They don’t always work on big productions as anything you’ve seen on tv, film and any moving image will have been edited by someone at some point.
Marketing – Marketing in the media can be developed in a number of ways; one, by specializing in one specific market function, for example, research, communications or brand management. The other way would be to specialize on the type of marketing, such as the product, consumer or business to business work.
Techincal – A technical job roll would consist of working wit equipment, like cameras, sound and can include editing. This type of job is what I’d class as a specialist, as in you would need a good understanding of camera work, for example, to do work as a camera man.

5. Professional career development
Training on the job – Training on the job is what it sounds like, learning while working. For example, an editor won’t know everything little thing about after effects, but instead will know what they need to know when editing what they need it for. Employers will often send employees off to training courses every year to keep their skills in check.
Self-training – Self-training is essentially training yourself in the media sector of your choice, for example in my personal case, I trained myself for 3 years within the editing sector within different programs such as; Sony Vegas, Premier Pro and After Effects. I also learned a lot about similar programs, Photoshop for example. I learned a lot in those 3 years and I’d like to think that I have surpassed many in terms of editing skills of other people my age.

6. Professional behavior
Reliability – this means to always be on time, and ready for when you’re needed somewhere with everything that you might need. Reliability is an essential skill to be hired more often, if employers know that you’re reliable they will take you other or even better options.
Attendance and punctuality – Attendance and punctuality means to be on time, wearing suitable or professional looking clothing. This, similar to reliability, is important for getting a job hence employers look for attendance and punctuality.
Commitment – commitment means to be determined on whatever you’re working on, for example if you were working to get better at camera work it would take commitment to do so, which means not giving up half way.
self-presentation – Self-presentation is a behavior which can show information about yourself through things like how you act and how you dress.
Communication skills – Communicating is one of the most important factors when it comes to employment. Most jobs will require you to be able to communicate easily, either between others and doing presentations. Employers see this skill as essential.
Teamwork – working in a team is a skill that is used very commonly and essential for jobs that require you to not only work independently but as part of a group.
Time management – Time management and keeping track of time is a skill that a lot of people overlook. Knowing when and how you’ll do something is a very important skill. This helps you to know when you’re doing something and what time. Keeping track of time will also help you be on time to these thing, which ties into reliability and attendance.