JOB SEARCHING
IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY
Still unemployed after your graduation at NHTV? According to
the HBO Keuzegids 2015 that is no wonder: almost 75 percent
of the HBO students are studying for a profession, which there is
no demand for. Unfortunately this is no different for the creative
industries.
Text WILMA BEIJER Design FLEUR VAN ‘T SLOT
F
or a long time, job opportunities in
the Dutch creative industry went
hand in hand with growing job development, but after the economic crisis hit
the nation in 2008, this growth got put
to an abrupt halt. Figures from the iMMovator Monitor Creative Industry 2014
conclude that after years of a 2,5 percent
growth per year, the industry is now
shrinking by 0,1 percent per year.
DIGITALIZATION
iMMovator also states that the shrink of
traditional media is due to the growth
of digitalization. This declining growth
in traditional media also transcended
in the decline of jobs in this industry. In
the years since the financial crisis hit the
nation, 850 jobs were lost in the print
sector, 770 in the book-publishing sector
and 715 in the radio and television sector. Only when focussing on the positive
side of these unfortunate circumstances
we see digitalization creating jobs in the
form of new subsectors. In 2014 the fastest growing sectors in new media were in
the gaming sector with over 3,000 vacancies and in the digital design sector with
over 10,000 vacancies.
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People working in the Dutch creative
industry are mostly concentrated in big
cities. Half of them can be found in the
Dutch Media Valley, which includes cities
such as Amsterdam, Utrecht, Hilversum
and Haarlem. 57,000 jobs can be found in
Amsterdam where the industry has experienced a proportional growth with 2,400
job openings in the last three years.
VACANCIES
Of course it is unrealistic to expect all of
you to go search for a job in the gaming
or digital design sector in Amsterdam.
Therefore this article’s purpose is to
remind you of the fact that your fellow
alumni can now also serve as your network in the search for a job. So we stimulate the alumni who are fortunate to
have a job in the creative industry to post
vacancies that their company has, in this
group so all alumni and we at the Contributor can help the unemployed find
their dream job.
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