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Our Origin Story

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Safeguarding and Prevent Newsletter – Issue 17

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024

Apprenticeship Funding Rules: What does an Apprenticeship cost to employers?

A Career in Marketing – Guide

Apprenticeships

Recap – National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Apprenticeships

Myth Busting: Apprenticeships

Blog, Safeguarding

Safeguarding and Prevent Newsletter – Issue 16

Skills Bootcamps learners attending short courses in Digital, Design, Digital Marketing, Game Design, Film Production and Backstage Theatre

Short Creative Courses – Skills Bootcamps

Creative Circle | 6th February 2024

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Blog, Employers

Navigating Apprenticeship Recruitment – Recruiting the Right Talent

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Right Talent for a Bright Future

Education & Success in Creative Jobs

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Our Origin Story

Creative Circle: Meet your Neighbours. Build your Network

Creative Circle

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From Apprentice to Graphic Designer – Meet Amy

Insights from David Yates Film & TV Director

Apprenticeship Success: LiLi

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Apprenticeship Funding Rules: Levy & Non-Levy

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Telling Authentic Stories with Disability Consultant Sam Oldknow

Why you should recruit an apprentice with Creative Alliance

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What firms can do to be more inclusive

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Blog, Safeguarding

Safeguarding Newsletter Q1 Issue 15

Tips to Managing Anxiety in the Workplace

Women's History Month

Women’s History Month

Apprenticeships

Attending a careers fair? Top 5 tips to make the most of your day!

Apprentice Success – Jay Muldoon

Blog, education

Apprenticeships, T-Levels, A-Levels. What’s the difference?

Is your team prepared for 2023?

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Venue Technician & Backstage Apprenticeships

#metoo campaign

How to recognise Sexual Harassment

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Creative Minds – Creative Careers Fair

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Creative Minds – A Creative Careers Fair for Young People

Job interview for Digital, creative or marketing apprenticeship

Our Guide to Finding the Best Apprenticeship

It’s A-level Results Day! What’s your next step?

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Blog, General News

Our Headspace Programme Report

The Commonwealth Games are here!

Two Apprentice Students Studying for their Creative, Digital and Marketing Apprenticeship

What is Education Crossover in an Apprenticeship?

Apprenticeship Students speaking to each other about Eligibility Criteria

What is the Eligibility Criteria for an Apprenticeship?

Happy Pride Month!

Birmingham Design Festival 2022: Our thoughts

Apprenticeship student finishing their creative, marketing or digital course

What happens after you finish your Apprenticeship?

Birmingham Design Festival

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Apprentice Wages. Pay what you can: not what you have to.

Creative Apprenticeship

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Join the Creative Alliance Team: Development Coach – Digital Content Producer.

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Join the Creative Alliance Team: Development Coach – Digital Marketing

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Recruit digital marketing apprentices and grow your business

Digital apprenticeships

Our First Instagram Live! Celebrating Digital Apprenticeships

Are Apprenticeships a genuine pathway to success in the Creative, Digital and Marketing Sector?

Attending a careers fair? Top 5 tips to make the most of your day!

Apprenticeship level 3

What is a Level 3, 4, 6 apprenticeship?

Apprenticeship Development Coach

What is a Development Coach?

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What is the best way to actually get an apprenticeship?

Creative Apprenticeship

What actually is an apprenticeship?

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How to apply for a Creative Apprenticeship?

Bouncing Back: A record number of apprentice hires show businesses are rebuilding.

We are Recruiting: Development Coach in Creative & Digital Media & Digital Marketer Apprenticeships

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Want to make a difference? Come join our team as a Trainer: Digital media and Digital Marketing.

Funding Available for Skills Development

Creative Alliance is a Specialist Kickstart Gateway for Creative, Digital & Marketing Roles

Digital Marketing Course Starts July 1st

The Growth Of E-Learning And How We Can Help

How can Creative Alliance help the recruitment sector?

How Apprentices Can Help The Healthcare Sector Succeed.

How we find the right talent for your company?

Grow Your Business With A Software Developer Apprentice

New Flexi Apprenticeships Announced – We’re There Already

£3000 Grants to Employers who Recruit NEW Apprentices

Sample Job Description Templates

Support Young People At Risk Of Unemployment With Kickstart

Curry Design Studio use apprentices to create some of the best looking marketing

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Building Back: Embedding young people in the Creative and Cultural Workforce

Safeguarding Newsletter – Issue 7 – World Mental Health Day

Future Faces: Apprentice of the Year Award Winner.

Summer means a lot of very talented 18 – 21 year olds looking to start their career.

Traineeships: Are you really interested? Then tell us.

Apprenticeships & the Plan for Jobs

General News, Uncategorised

Safeguarding Newsletter – Looking after your mental health while coming out of lockdown.

Rebuild: Digital Skills for Business

education, Uncategorised

Creative Alliance: An introduction to level 4 apprenticeships.

Resources on Black Lives Matters

Offer of free consultancy as we all rebuild

Rebuild with new young talent: You employ them & we’ll train & support them and you

Taster Training Sessions

Creative Alliance Impact report 2018/19

Our recruitment service: Getting your #talentworking

CA Recommends… Online training resources.

Safeguarding Newsletter – Looking after yourself during the Corona Virus outbreak

Update: Apprenticeships & Coronavirus: We’re Here to Support You

Coronavirus and Creative Alliance, we are still here to support you.

5 reasons why a Software Developer Apprenticeship is the best training for your staff.

Multi-Employer Apprentice Model – Agile Digital Talent

We are hiring: Research Administrator, Temporary

A success rate to be proud of.

A summary of our Ofsted Inspection.

Multi-Employer Apprenticeship Model Survey

Meet the Apprentices – Discover! Creative Careers Week

Software developers needed for project

Blog, Uncategorised

Festival of Enterprise – Register your tickets here.

Find Your Joe: Get yourself a Digital Content Producer Apprentice – and Save £600

Apprenticeship Funding: What it’s going to cost me

We Are Hiring: Trainer/Assessor in Creative Venue Technician/Technical Theatre Apprenticeships.

Can training make your business better?

We are Hiring: Recruitment & Apprenticeship Coordinator

Each year gets bigger and better…It’s Birmingham’s very own festival of Social Enterprise CITYDRIVE!

Alterations to employer apprenticeship contributions and other changes this April

Education and skills in the Creative Industry: Our MD speaks to Westminster.

Apprentice Ambassador’s Launch Night

Safeguarding & Prevent Newsletter-First Edition

Birmingham Publicity Association lunch

“What I wish I and my employer had known before my apprenticeship….”

Creative, Digital & Marketing Talent Development: What Do You Think Is Important?

List for standards in the creative, digital and marketing sector

Lisa Voss introduces the Apprentice Ambassadors

Lisa Voss, digital marketing apprentice, completes 12 months of her apprenticeship.

Trust – An essential element within apprenticeships.

case study, Uncategorised

Life beyond my apprenticeship – Matthew Bubb – Superdream – Media Executive

We are Hiring: Quality Improvement Manager

The Department of Education publishes facts about apprenticeships, higher learning and the impact beyond the course.

Introducing our Apprentice Ambassador scheme.

Promoting Work Based Learning Across the EU

Blog, case study

Life of an apprentice: Digital Marketing Apprentice Lisa Voss – Heading towards the end now.

How is formal education different to work based learning

Blog, case study

Apprentices Speak: From Apprenticeship to Disney

The summer: It is like Christmas for recruiting apprentices!

We’re Hiring: Trainer / Assessor in Project Management, Team Leading, Customer Service & Business Administration Apprenticeship Standards.

We’re Hiring: Evaluation Co-ordinator

We are Hiring: Trainer / Assessor in Creative & Digital Media & Digital Marketer Apprenticeships: role now called Development Coach

How to access levy funding for apprenticeships.

Masterclasses, Professionals and awesome contacts; what makes us Digital training specialists

case study, General News

Life of an apprentice: Digital Marketing Apprentice Lisa Voss keeps us updated with her time at Formation Media.

Launch of the Promote WBL Platform

Diversity & Work Based Learning: Stories about some of our European work

Blog, case study

Employer Case Study: Eastnor Pottery

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Employer Case Study: The Mighty Creatives

Blog, case study

Apprentice Speaks: Jordan Walker – Hard Working apprentices get success.

We are hiring! Communications Coordinator.

Creative and Digital talent is coming in; are you ready?

Close the skills gaps with apprentices and strengthen your team

case study, General News

Life of an apprentice: Digital Apprenticeship and their first weeks

Make the Most of Your Work Experience Triumphs

Apprentices Make a difference to your bottom line

case study, General News

Life of an Apprentice: Digital Marketer

Foot In The Door: Open Doors presents YOU

case study, General News

Creative employers Speak: Black Country Touring Company

Why does work based learning for digital apprentices ….. erm work!

Foot in The Door: Open Doors presents Networks

Communications Coordinator Job Advert

Developing Talent in the Digital Media Industry

Networking: like it or loathe it you gotta do it!

Foot In The Door: Open Doors: Paper & Presence

Foot in the Door presents: Networks

Why Do Employers take on Digital and Creative Apprentices

Finding the Right Apprenticeship Training Provider for Your Company

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Blog, Uncategorised

4 Reasons why a Digital Apprenticeship is the best way to kick off the New Year

Creative Alliance: Our 2017….

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7 successful people you didn’t know were apprentices

Young adult applying for a creative apprenticeship

4 tips for apprentices to get through holiday season

Next Level Recruitment

Are you going to close the digital skills gap?

Digital Apprentice Speaks: How you can progress to Level 4

Blog, Uncategorised

Are Digital Apprenticeships right for your business?

Blog, Uncategorised

Our Digital Apprentices up their game in serious digital skills!

Blog, case study, Uncategorised

Apprentices Speak: Why I did an apprenticeship

Job Vacancy – Part-time Marketing Assistant with Creative Alliance

General Manager Vacancy

How Digital Apprenticeship progressions are growing businesses across the UK.

September Success: Record number of starts in one month

Thinking of taking on a Creative, Digital and Marketing Apprentice

Creative and Digital Apprentices are not just for creative and digital agencies

Blog, Uncategorised

Invited to the national launch of the Creative Industires Toolkit

Foot in the Door and the next steps

See the employers who are benefiting from a Digital Marketing Apprentice

Creative Alliance wins at 2017 Birmingham Education Awards

Creative Alliance has a creative talent avalanche

Foot In The Door Launch at The REP

Join Our Team!

Creative Industries talent pool just got bigger!

Quality Apprentice talent

Our first graduate post with Jones and Palmer

Meet the graduates applying for apprenticeships!

Join Us!

Government Funding for training your staff

Film Skills Brum Latest with Iconic Productions

A Graduate can do an Apprenticeship – is it worth it?

Do Your Staff need Training?

Midland’s Apprenticeship Grants Guide

Film Skills Brum Celebration

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National Apprenticeship Week 2017 Highlights

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Film Skills Brum Spotlight: Matching Talent to Opportunities: £1,500 Apprentice Wage Bursaries

Apprenticeship grants

Our Creative, Digital and Marketing Apprentices

Film Skills Brum End of Programme Event with Michael Gubbins

Creative Alliance Home Grown Event – Jan 2017 – Hotel Du Vin

Can our creative industry afford to ignore apprenticeships as a resource of creative talent?

Film Skills: Foot in the Door – Talent Match Event

Kick Start Your Career

Film Skills Brum – Talent Match Event | 19th January 2017

Creative Alliance Weekly Highlights: The Last of 2016

The Apprenticeship Reforms

Creative Alliance Weekly Highlights

The Into Film: Into Space & Home Competition

T Skills Diversity: From Engagement to Employment

T SKILLS: From Engagement to Employment: Diversifying the Talent Supply Chain into Birmingham’s Cultural Organisations

Creative Alliance – FREELANCE DESIGN WORK

Foot In The Door: Film Skills for Birmingham’s Young, Digital and Diverse Generation… Views of two participants: December 16

Foot in the Door: Film Skills for Birmingham’s Young, Digital and Diverse Generation

Platinum Christmas 2016 – the BPA Celebrates its 70th Anniversary

How To Support Your Apprentice In The Lead Up To Christmas

An Apprentice Winter Survival Guide

Asian Apprenticeship Awards 2016

Creative Alliance Apprentice Wins: Creative & Digital Apprentice 2016 Award

Recruitment of a Non-Executive Director of the GBSLEP

Why Apprenticeships Are Fuelling The Digital Industry

Apprenticeships, Blog

Completing An Apprenticeship: Jenny’s Story

YOU’RE HIRED! MIDLANDS APPRENTICES GO CREATIVE

Apprenticeships, Blog

Applying For An Apprenticeship: A Cheat Sheet

Become an apprentice for Slightly Unusual Ltd

Apprenticeships, Blog

Your future after the Apprenticeship

The 10 Benefits Of Email Marketing You Can’t Ignore

Apprenticeships, Blog

Level 2,3 And 4 Apprenticeships … What’s The Difference?

Freelancers, You Can Achieve More With Digital Marketing

Millennial Trends That Creative Industries Can’t Ignore

Apprenticeships, Blog

From Education to Workplace: What You Can Expect

7 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were An Apprentice

Freelancers – 4 ways to increase your income with Digital Marketing

Training for yourself and your staff is the most important thing you can do today.

Blog, Uncategorised

Can you do Digital Marketing For Your Business yourself?

Employ a Young Person – 3 things to remember.

Safeguarding and the 3 advantages of having good training

Four things that you should know in order to improve your customer service

Assessing Apprentices – A View From A New Assessor

The Partnership: Creative Pioneers in Growing Talent

What we’ve learned about… Employing Millennials + Growing Talent

What we’ve learned about… Community Arts Apprenticeships

Creative Show – Exhibition by HE Students from Solihull College & University Centre

What we’ve learnt about… Digital Marketing Apprenticeships

What we’ve learned about… Creative and Digital Media Apprenticeships

18 – 25? Become a board member within an arts organisation

Pleased To Meet You – Part Five: With Freedom Comes Responsibility

Pleased To Meet You – Part Four: How It Works

Pleased To Meet You – Part Three: Who We Are

SHORTLISTED FOR RBS SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITIES AWARD

Pleased To Meet You – Part Two: A Message to All Parents

Pleased To Meet You – Part One: What We Do

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Julia: Our Intern from Germany

Creative Apprentices – The Future Saved #NAW16

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High Sheriff Awards Blog

City Supports Emerging Young Talent Amidst The ‘Birmingham Boom’

Creative Pioneers Capture The Headlines In Metro

European Voices of Culture Preparatory Paper

BBC Make It Digital Traineeship 2016

Winners of the National Social Enterprise Award!

Apprenticeships

Growth in apprenticeships benefits businesses

Should apprenticeships be limited for young people only?

Apprenticeships

Are apprenticeships the solution to a surging technology arms solution?

Apprenticeships

Famous apprentices

Apprenticeships

Myth busting: Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships

Reasons to do an Apprenticeship

Apprenticeships

Why you should consider an apprentice