Schedule of the day
Wired Sussex Jobs + Skills Fair took place on Thusday 4th March at Brighton’s Corn Exchange. You can find details of the schedule of the day below.
Panel sessions on how to kick-start your media career.
Career Opportunities |
Routes into Media |
Going it Alone: How to be a Media Freelancer |
| 12.30 Welcome - Phil Jones, Managing Director, Wired Sussex | 1.45 Chair - Andy Keetch, Community Manager, Wired Sussex | 3.30 Chair – Paul Silver, Brighton Farm freelancing network |
12.35 The Sussex Internship Programme and how it can help you - Nick Edwards, Recruitment and Internships Manager, Wired Sussex with Lucy Freeborn, Creative Director and Sophie Coley, Online PR Consultant, Propellernet |
1.50 Web: Design, marketing and the routes into the industry - Adam Stafford, Managing Director, Fresh Egg | 3.40 Opportunities for co-working - James McCarthy, The Werks and Ellen De Vries, The Copy House @ the Skiff. |
| 12.50 Useful Careers Advice – Linda Buckham, , Director, Careers and Employability Centre,University of Sussex | 2.00 Animation & Design: Routes in to the industry, and the best way to get ahead - Sarah Bird, Managing Director Animnation |
3.50 Becoming a freelancer – Darren Fell, Freelance Advisor |
| 1.00 Demystifying Media: An overview of job roles in the sector– Phil Jones, Wired Sussex | 2.10 Games: Design from a games point of view - Ben Hebb, Art Director, Zoe Mode |
4.00 Accounting advice for freelancers - Tracey Colverd, Tax Partner, Antrams |
| 1.15 to 1.30 Q & A Session |
2.20 Marketing/PR: Evolution of PR and routes in to the industry - Caraline Brown, Founder, Midnight |
4.10 Legal Advice for freelancers - Fiona Martin, Director Martin Searle Solicitors |
| 2.30 Journalism: The current state of play - Jo Wadsworth, Web Editor, The Argus |
4.20 Q & A Session | |
| 2.40 to 315 Q & A Session |
Inspirational speakers, lively debate and informal networking brought to you by the University of Sussex. University of Sussex
 5.30 to 6.15pm: Networking6.15 to 7.30pm: "Big Breaks in the Digital Age" Discover how to make it big in the media world - keynote talk by BBC TV’s "Virtual Revolution" presenter Dr. Aleks Krotoski. 7.30 to 8.30pm: Networking |
