Managing a portfolio career

Post-graduation plans getting you down?

Do you have a million and one creative ideas buzzing around your head?

Would you like to explore how to use your creative skills to earn a living?

You don't have to squeeze yourself into a career mould after graduation - just apply for Insight Out!

Insight Out: Managing a Portfolio Career is a 5 week part-time course that offers 15 Birmingham City University graduates the chance to convert their creativity into ideas for innovative projects and successful enterprises. Think The Apprentice meets Dragon's Den - but with more constructive feedback!

Build your confidence and entrepreneurial skills, find new ways of thinking and learn the NESTA-approved Insight Out business models which will help you make the most of your ideas.

PLUS

  • £850 bursary awarded to participants*
  • Networking opportunities and access to contacts
  • Learn presentation and pitching skills

*Translates as a £150 weekly bursary in addition to a £100 bursary on completion of the course assignments.

If you graduated from Birmingham City University between 2007-2009 (within BIAD or The Faculty of Performance, Media & English) and would like to know more about establishing yourself as a freelancer or setting up your own business, then this course is for you.

The programme is also open to anyone who has completed Insight Out: Community Enterprise

What do Insight Outers say?

"The funding I got and the great friends I made out of the course, the peers I met, made me feel I wasn't the only one in the boat. I also developed further, useful contacts within the industry to help me continue my work further."
Kiran Khan, Fashion Designer, www.kirankhan.co.uk

"The course really helped us focus on our key creative skills and helped to find the best ways for us to commercialise them to make a viable business out of what we are good at and enjoy doing."
Paul Byass, Product Designer, www.intellicot.com

Course Duration:

Monday 21st Sept - Tuesday 27th Oct 2009 (4 - 5 days commitment each week)

Course Schedule:

The course schedule is available for download in PDF format.

Apply Now:

The application form is available in PDF or Word formats.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview on 10th or 11th September.

For further information:

Join the Facebook group Insight Out Midlands @ http://tinyurl.com/o2zps3

Follow Insight Out on Twitter @ScreenMediaLab

Insight Out: Managing A Portfolio Career is run by Screen Media Lab, part of The Birmingham School of Media.

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