Working in The Arts

Scotland is home to the Edinburgh Festival and only the Olympics and the World Cup sell more tickets. (Yeah, and we do it yearly).

Edinburgh is an international creative and cultural centre, home to the world’s biggest arts festival and the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature.

So it goes without saying that the arts play a major role in employment in this country.

Scotland’s creative industries contribute more than £5 billion to the Scottish economy every year, government statistics reveal, and since we are talking in ballpark billions here, that’s roughly the same as whisky if you give or take the odd ten million.

More than 15,000 businesses employ more than 70,000 people, not counting freelances and students.

The creative arts fall into the categories of advertising, architecture, visual art, crafts, fashion and textiles, design, performing, arts, music, photography, film and video, computer games, radio and TV, writing and publishing, heritage, software/electronic, publishing, cultural education – so that’s a lot of job opportunities to be going on with, before you begin to add up the support and service industries for all this talent.

If you want to develop your creative skills as a career, then the chances are you will be able to - if you do some judicious planning when it comes to further education, work experience and getting the right advice.

 

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Support Worker

Added by Strachan
Struan

I am an active young lady with learning disabilities, epilepsy and ADHD. My family are looking to recruit someone (preferably female) to work with me on a 1:1 basis … Read more

Mobile Art School Coordinator

Added by Robert Gordon University
£30,395 to £33,199 per annum, P&S 6, Aberdeen

Robert Gordon University Job Summary This post will co-ordinate, plan and deliver the Gray’s School of Art Mobile Art School outreach programme in consultation and in collaboration with key staff within Gray's, including the Mobile Art School Steering … Read more

Commis Chef - Hilton Glasgow

Added by Hilton Hotels
Glasgow

Hilton Hotels Job Summary A Commis Chef is responsible for preparing and presenting high quality dishes to deliver an excellent Guest and Member experience while consistently contributing to departmental targets. What will I be doing? As a … Read more

Here at HIJOBS we have a wide selection of arts-based jobs on offer and you can take your career plans onto the next level with us, by keeping up-to-date with creative arts jobs on offer here. Read all the helpful articles on our site and set up customised job alerts with us; use your Facebook account, it is the quick way to create a profile; store all your application documents. Use our App, apply with your phone and never use your computer again.

Creative Scotland is the public body supporting the arts, screen and creative industries across Scotland as a development agency, distributing funds from the Scottish Government and The National Lottery. The organisation has a 10-year (2014-2024) plan to grow the arts here in Scotland through a strategy funding advocacy, development and influence.

In May 2018 the plans for Scotland’s new Screen Unit to attract film makers were given an extra £2 million thanks to the Scottish Government and the National Lottery to create employment opportunities for Scottish crews, production facilities, and helping to develop Scottish-based film producers. The aim is to attract large-scale productions and maximising spend in Scotland and further building on the record levels of film and TV production that Scotland has been experiencing in recent years.

And as for the creativity of software developers in Scotland? Well, never forget that this is country which gave the world Grand Theft Auto.