Unit 01

Unit 01:

The creative media industries are vital to the UK's economic success, as well as to the quality of our society and our lives. In terms of Gross Value Added, they account for over 5.6% of total UK output. They rely on a very highly-skilled workforce. The skills of the workforce need to be professional for the industries to stay competitive. That's why it's vital for the views of employers and the self-employed to be heard, so that skills gaps and shortages are identified.

Skillset's industry-endorsed research programme is the key mechanism to capture and express these views. The programme uses well-developed methodologies and relationships to gather robust Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) about the industries.

Read overviews of the LMI for each creative media industry.

Full time

Full-time jobs usually require around 32-40 hours per week and often include benefits such as health insurance and paid holidays and vacations. With a full-time job, you typically work eight hours a day, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Part-time jobs usually require less than 32 hours per week and often don't include any benefits. With a part time job, you typically work four hours a day, from, say, 8:00 am to 12:00 noon.

Fixed contracts

Generally fixed term contract means your tied into the contract for a fixed term example would be like a telephone line, most companies have a fixed term contract of say 12 months, apart from your 'tester period' at the beginning you are stuck in the contract for 12 months.


Part time
Part time is when you only work 16 hours a week. Part time is when you work 80% of a full time working week or less, this is because they do not do the full time, it is just so they get a good understanding of the work environment and that they know what they need to do in future jobs.


Freelance
A freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees.


The effect as an employee
It depends on the job because certain jobs can be changed in the hours that you work, all of the breaks and lunch breaks you have will pay in certain jobs will let your hours flex but other jobs you will have to work the hours and the breaks that are given by the employer, this means that there are different jobs that have different working hours and set the breaks and lunch breaks have to be a certain time so it fits in within the working hours.

The benefits of an employment
It depends on the job because some jobs the company will deduct the money from your pay slip automatically and they will pay for it on your behalf. Other jobs like if you are self employed you will have to pay tax for yourself and national insurance free lance will also need to pay their own tax for their self employed side but sometimes even their main employment as well.

How they are secure
They are secure by making their own types of times and how they are set out and precisely when their breaks and lunch breaks, for example: if a self employed person has the hours of 8:00am till 3:30pm his break would be at 10:30am and his lunch break would be at 1:30pm so it would balance out his hour to make it fair, a full time person would work

web design companies: Ng technology,zelo creative limited, th_nk clockwork design & new media, Indigo Multimedia , Tricycle media,cravens.

Graphical design you need experience with photoshop/fireworks/illustration you need to be good at art with experience

Web design need experience using html/css you need experience using dream weave but also photoshop and illustrator.

I would go on job sites to look for graphical designers, web designers , web developers or I would apply for recruitment agencies who would find you work you would need a portfolio of your designs if you were going to apply for a graphic designer, you would need to show all of your websites that you have designed a web developer would need to make sure that they also show the web sites that they have developed.


The differences between these is that they are either employed by somebody, a company or by themselves. This is so the different terms can not be mistaken for one another.