Create your career week: How to start your creative career with UAL alumni

During Create your career week, sessions delivered will aim to support participants to:

• Start career planning with advice from C&E
• Practice preparing professional documents for upcoming applications, interviews or creative projects you are focused on.
• Gain insight on how to build and maintain professional connections for your career.
• Get access to resources and useful signposts to support you with your employability queries and needs.

These sessions are designed as a mix between lecture-style and participant-led workshops. Providing a space for you to not only gain (or renew) knowledge and insights for your employability, but to apply and tailor it to your creative career needs.

Who are our sessions for:

All sessions delivered by careers support are for UAL pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate students, UAL alumni and UAL graduates only.

This session is particularly beneficial for:

This event is particularly beneficial for those looking to make headway into their chosen creative career. It will give clarity on the pitfalls and the positives of how to make it in the creative world.

About the event:

Join us to get inspired by those from our UAL community on how you can design your pathway to success.

We'll be hearing from UAL alumni [details of our guests to follow] who are working within their chosen creative field. They will each tell us about their journey into their work, the challenges they encountered, as well as the positives to working in your chosen profession.

Participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions and get insights they can adopt in their own journey to creative success.

This event will be hosted in person and there will be a photographer on site, so participants are encouraged to let the careers and employability team at the beginning of the event if they do not want to be photographed.

Bio's of the speakers:

Kamilah Nasir - Kam Creates

Playful jewellery to make you feel magical! Whether it be a bold statement or a subtle pop, there is something to wear for every occasion. Each piece is designed and laser cut by Kam from a mix of bright acrylic and bespoke glittering wood that shines like no other! Punchy patterns and cheeky shapes influence each design and are inspired by Kam’s love for travel, Japan and Mexico being two of her favourite places!

Shannyce Adamson - Easy Hang.

Shannyce Adamson is a multidisciplinary creative and entrepreneur with a degree in Design for Art Direction from the University of the Arts London. She has built a career at the intersection of creativity and strategy, working in creative direction, product and art design, advertising, and business innovation.

Abigail Rigby:

A Welsh creative based in London who champions collaboration and communication as tools to build a brighter future. Having graduated from MA Fashion Futures at LCF in 2025, They currently work as an Interior Design Assistant alongside my full-time job in Community Experience at a clothes reselling app.

How to Prepare?:

We recommend that you spend some time reflecting on what you would like to know. Think of any questions you might want to ask someone who is already doing what you want to do, or something similar.

All participants who sign up to attend the event will receive access to the Create Your Career Week padlet from Monday 10th November. It will include pre-recorded video resources, activity sheets and useful signposts to the UAL Careers Toolkit and other UAL wide teams/resources to help you make the most of the all the sessions.

Be sure to keep an eye on your inbox (and sometimes spam folder) so you don't miss out on these pre-session materials!

Any questions about accessing this session?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact us at careers-support@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.

Image Credit: Casper File, 2023, BA Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.