Do you want to sell your work or your services as an artist to possible clients? This workshop will support you in building your artistic portfolio and presenting yourself to possible employers/buyers/contractors.
Phase(s)
Pre-Production, Post-Production
Subject
Promotion
Target groups
Artists, Creative and Cultural Professions
Sectors
for all sectors, photography, visual and graphic arts, music, webdesign, dance, media, performing arts
Level of experience
Intermediary
Prerequisites
Participants should bring portfolio elements that they already have; like CVs, professional photos, video or audio recordings etc; preferrably in digital form
Description
This training is structured as a simulation game: Participants are preparing for a job interview. They go through various stations to prepare for this job interview, by working on their CV, their concept for the job and their artistic portfolio. After the job interview, they get individual feedback.
Content
- how to write and format a CV
- how to compile an artistic portfolio
- how to prepare for a job interview situation
- how to act in a job interiew situation
Method
Simulation game:
- Introduction, explanation of the situation; each participant receives a individual invitation for a job interview, suitable to his_her artistic expertise and level
- Various stations: working on CV, working on artistic portfolio, working on concept for the job, optionally: taking professional photos, optionally for dancers and musicians: shooting a quick but professional one-shoot-video
- Individual job interview |
- Individual feedback
Objectives
- to upgrade one’s self-promotional materials (specifically artistic portfolio and CV)
- to learn how to develop concepts for artistic services for specific clients
- to gain confidence and improve performance in job interviews
Results
Participants will have an upgraded CV and artistic portfolio, more confidence for future job interviews, and optionally will have a few professional pictures and/or a video/audio recording useful for self-promotion
Resources
- At least 3 trainers! We worked with a 5 persons team on this: One for each of the stations, including a professional photographer and videographer. For the simulated job interviews, 2 persons did the interviewing, 1 person managed the door / getting the next participant to his_her interview in time
- some online computers (we had 4 for 18 participants), at least one printer
- Markers, pens and papers
- enough rooms/space for various stations, plus a separate room for the job interviews
- optionally equipment for professional photos, audio and/or video recordings
Evaluations
Online Questionnaire (Google Drive)
Support material
Examples / templates for artistic CVs and portfolios
Duration
10 h
Participants
up to 18
Course language(s)
Deutsch, Français, Español, English
Past track experience
since 2011
Trainer
Janna Hadler, Philipp Godart, Sascha Düx
Organisation
ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e. V. (RRCGN)Contact
Sascha DüxTested
under the project
Routes to EmploymentDownload
📎 Module PDF (0.11 MB)Personal curriculum