The Creative Careers Surgery is a unique and exciting online audio careers service that gives the next creative generation much needed, realistic and honest advice by giving some of the best creative professionals in the UK a platform to share their inspiring career stories. The concept started as a local radio show, presented by a young media graduate Shivani Mair in 2005 – because too many young people are struggling to achieve their career ambitions – just because they lacked simply advice.
The Creative Careers Surgery has interviewed the creamof the creative crop from the BBC’s Eastenders Director & Senior Broadcast Journalist to Harper Colins Senior Novel Publicist. Big interviewee names include MTV Presenter Tim Kash, music producer Rishi Rich, DJ Nihal, Head of 4Sport Channel 4, Living TV,Tandem Films, Broadcast Magazine, MAC Make-Up, Cosgrove Hall Animators, and internationally acclaimed artist Russell Hatton & Actor Kabir Bedi.
Young people will find over 50 amazing audio interviews online from creative industries such as music, film, art, television, design, dance, radio, theatre, animation, publishing, fashion, journalism and photography.
Research shows that many young people in the UK are confused about their future ambitions and unaware of not only the opportunities that the create sector can bring but that they lack a motivated and positive attitude to their future. The Creative Careers Surgery aims to inform, guide, motivate, inspire and expose you to conventional and unusual careers so that you can act on your talents and start preparing for a successful career, by giving you the chance to hear practical tips, trade secrets, challenges and triumphs of successful creative professionals -in their
own voices.
Ian Kennedy, Freelance Radio script Writer (BBC AN ‘Silver Street’) and Producer said:
“…it’s an invaluable source of real-world insight into the creative industries for young people, and really will help listeners shape a sense of what they themselves could do and how to go about realising their dreams. Given the exposure and variety it deserves, it could become the leading resource for people interesting in being creative in the UK.”
The online interviews provide answers to the questions that most young people love to ask like ‘What’s most important: work experience, portfolio skills, good contacts or a degree?’ and ‘What's the best way to get the job?’ Even if you don't consider yourself as a creative person, the interviews are still worth listening to just to hear these fascinating, professional and celebrity life stories.
So whether you want to be a news reporter or a games designer get a head start from some of the best industry professionals at www.creativecareerssurgery.com