Career Resources Directory
Directory of places to find job and training opportunities in the UK screen sector. Also available to download in pdf format for classroom use:
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Sites which collate job & opportunities in the creative industries. All are free (or have free options), but in many cases you will need to create an account to see/apply for opportunities:
Creative Industries
Arts Council of Northern Ireland jobs board
Arts Jobs board
Creative Access: creative industries jobs for people from underrepresented groups
Creative Careers Club: jobs board - also do daily LinkedIn round-ups
Creative Lives in Progress jobs board
Creative Scotland opportunities board
Culture Connect Wales jobs board
ERIC: phone app collating creative career opportunities
If You Could: creative industries jobs board
Northern Ireland Screen vacancies list
Social Fixt: creative industries jobs for people from underrepresented groups
Run The Check: creative industries jobs board
We are Pocc: cultural and creative industries jobs board for people from ethnic minority groups
Film & Television
The TV Collective: jobs & opportunities board
There are lots of active Facebook groups where job opportunities are posted. You will to request access to join most of these:
LinkedIn pages:
Look Beyond the List (for people from underrepresented groups)
Department/discipline specific
NextGen Skills Academy: LinkedIn page with weekly round-ups of animation/vfx jobs
Playful Productions: London theatre jobs board
Media Beans: media and journalist jobs board
The Casting Directors Guild: UK casting assistant vacancies list
The Personal Managers’ Association UK vacancies list
Journo Resources (news/journalism)
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Databases where you can register to apply for live jobs, and post your profile to be contacted about roles which aligned with your location & level of experience:
Filming in England Crew Directory: England-wide, all crew roles, free to register
The Talent Manager: UK-wide, all crew roles, free and paid membership options
The TriForce Creative Network (TCN) Talent Pool: UK-wide, all crew roles, free to register
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4Skills/Channel 4 apprenticeships: available across departments, from Level 3 to Level 6. Annual application cycle, usually in winter.
BBC apprenticeships: available across a range of departments, from Level 3 to Level 6. Annual application cycle, usually in the autumn.
Film Distributors Association traineeship: paid 12-month film distribution training, run annually, including ring-fenced places in Wales.
ITV Early Careers: offer apprenticeships (usually advertised in January) and a graduate scheme
Next Gen Skills Academy apprenticeships: focussed on post production and VFX
Sgil Cymru apprenticeships in Wales: available at Level 3 & 4
Sky Early Careers: offer apprenticeships and graduate programmes across a range of departments including Business, Technology, Data and Customer Services
Warner Bros apprenticeships: offer apprenticeships across a range of departments
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BBC Taster Days: run several times a year
Banijay UK: offer 2-week work experience placements in unscripted television
Channel 4 Virtual Work Experience: open to 14 year olds and above across the UK. 1-week placements, available several times a year.
Freemantle Media: offer a few days of work experience in London offices
Love Productions: open to CV submissions for work experience
NBCU: 1-year internships at London office, usually starting in the summer
Neverland: 6-week advertising internship in London, available annually, usually in the winter
Northern Ireland Screen trainee scheme: open to 18 year olds and above, for new entrants interested in production, craft and technical departments
Screen Alliance Wales: offers traineeships and work shadowing opportunities
Screen Skills Trainee Finder: annual application round, usually at the start of the academic year
ScreenWorks: open to 14 - 19 year olds in Northern Ireland. Placements across a range of disciplines, available several times a year.
Sony Pictures: 1-year internships at London office, usually starting in July
Warner Bros: 1-year internships for university graduates, across a range of departments
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Arts Emergency: mentoring for 16-18 year olds in London, Manchester or Merseyside; applications usually open in September
BFI Film Academy: for 16 to 25 year olds. Free training available across the UK in a range of departments. Also includes the free BFI Lab online webinars and talks.
BFI Skills Clusters: between 2023 and 2026, funding has been allocated between 7 skills clusters to deliver training across the UK:
Create Central (West Midlands): including Skills Accelerator programme, with two free courses for young people: Film & TV Fusion (for 19+ year olds), and Rock Up Ready (for film/media university graduates).
Film London: training is delivered by the National Film & Television School, with free bootcamps & taster days available across a range of disciplines.
Northern Ireland Screen: includes free trainee and placement schemes
Resource Productions (Berkshire): includes regular networking events, and free screenwriting and filmmaking workshops for 11-19 year olds
Screen Scotland: includes the BFI Film Academy annual programmes for 16-19s in Scotland
Screen Yorkshire: including bootcamp training and the Connected Campus initiative
Sgil Cymru, in partnerships with Screen Alliance Wales & Creative Wales: includes free bootcamps and taster days at NFTS Wales, and the SAW/C4 Screen 4 Schools programme.
Creative Mentor Network: for 16 - 27 year olds from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Website also includes live jobs board
Creative Access Springboard Programme: for young people from underrepresented backgrounds
Edinburgh TV Festival’s The Network programme
Grierson DocLab New Entrants scheme: annual training programme, for 16 - 25 year olds interested in documentary and factual
Iconic Steps: free courses for 16 - 35 year olds, in London and around the UK
Mama Youth Training Programmes: For 18 - 30 year olds from underrepresented backgrounds, in and around London. Several rounds per year.
Media Trust training courses
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See the separate document for youth-friendly film festival across the UK:
BAFTA Young Games Designers: annual competition for 10 - 18 year olds
DepicT: 90s film competition at Encounters Film Festival in Bristol
Into Film Awards: annual awards ceremony for 4 - 19 year olds, usually in the summer
RTS Student Television Awards: for university students
The Young Arrows awards
Young Animator of the Year UK competition
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Access VFX: includes mentoring and networking opportunities
BBC Writers: opportunities and resources for screenwriters, including annual open call
BFI Network: support & funding for early careers UK filmmakers
Centre Frame: networking & mentorship, free and paid subscriptions
Cinesisters: a collective of women directors)
The Film & TV Charity: organisation supporting workers in the Film & TV sector, with a focus on wellbeing and financial support
Film London’s Equal Access Network (opportunities for talent from underrepresented groups), Stride (community platform) and Connect (mentoring scheme for 18-24 year-olds)
Pinewood Studios Futures (free annual open day for schools/colleges to visit the studios)
Royal Television Society (RTS) Futures: events and opportunity for new entrants in television
ScreenSkills (information hub for careers in UK film & TV. Includes job profiles, opportunities board, and training, including free e-learning modules)
Starting Pixel (community group for those interested in Virtual Production: includes events and a WhatsApp group with job opportunities)
The TV Mindset (community Facebook group aimed at supporting connecting people working in film & TV, with a focus on improving mental health)
Women in Film & TV (Facebook group)
Developed by Laura Boswell, Kalyn Chesney (London Screen Academy) and Alice Guilluy (The Film & TV Educators Network). With thanks to Film & TV Educators Network members for their feedback and contributions.
