CAREERS PROGRAMME SUMMARY

ELAM’s mission is to diversify the creative industries with a guiding vision that every child growing up in the UK should see themself reflected in UK culture.

In our 10th academic year, ELAM is proudly one of the most diverse creative colleges in the UK. It's thanks to our amazing supporters that our alumni success continues to go from strength to strength.

ELAM's employability skills and professionalism training will encompass a range of areas critical for success in the workplace. This includes communication skills, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability.

Looking at professional behaviours and attitudes, we believe that by instilling a strong work ethic, punctuality, and a commitment to excellence, we can prepare our trainees to meet the demands of the competitive commercial industry head-on.

We work closely with the Creative Industries to ensure our trainees are developing the attitudes and behaviours needed to succeed in the workplace.

FUTURE FOCUS WEDNESDAYS

‘Future Focus Wednesdays’ is a new programme which launched last year.

It is a dedicated afternoon for trainees to develop their professional skills and behaviours, and trainees must attend scheduled masterclasses, workshops and drop-in sessions.

These are helping to improve trainees' knowledge of how to navigate the music and creative industries, build connections, raise aspirations and ultimately, help them to leave ELAM ‘industry ready’.

INDUSTRY PASSPORT

The ELAM Industry Passport is a centralised, collaborative platform accessible to staff to view an overall snapshot of a trainee’s journey during their time at ELAM. The platform includes attendance, punctuality, behaviour log, how many future focus sessions attended, project submission, and 3 professional development questions designed to help the industry team capture, identify, monitor and measure progress.

UNSEEN, UNHEARD, UNPLAYED

We believe it is vital to create a platform that connects our trainees to industry partners and stakeholders.

Unseen, Unheard, Unplayed (UUU) help to showcase our trainees’ incredible work over the past year. This not only develops their skills but directly impact the next generation of creative talent across the UK.

The next UUU event is July 2nd 2025.

MUSIC

ELAM alumni and trainees have received a BRIT Rising Star nomination, a Youth Music Award, a Royal Albert Hall Makers Award, an Ivor Novello Award and performed at numerous festival performances.

There are currently 20 ELAM alumni signed to record labels, with numerous others releasing music independently, as well as all of the successes securing the roles that go on behind the scenes including Artist Management, Marketing and A&R.

FILM & TV

Currently, 11 trainees have joined Ridley Scott Associates as interns. Due to RSA being a company that have multiple departments they give they interns the opportunity to flourish in all departments. Not just limiting themselves to their skills on just Films and TV, but the pre-production, the location research, how they pitch ideas for documentary, Music videos and so on.

RSA not only benefit by seeing the next generation of talent, creatives, editors, directors but the excitement that they know they’ve played a big part to it.

GAMES DESIGN

Currently, we have several alumni working in Sports Interactive as programmers and various others as freelancers with Games studios across the country.

We run a yearly project in collaboration with Arebyte aimed at nurturing young talent to open paths into employment within the Games & Real Time industries. The project focused on developing trainees’ creative digital skills and encouraging critical thinking.

Industry partners in the past have partnered with art collective Keiken, and tracking technology studio TARGET3D. The two games developed by ELAM trainees invite the audience to a futuristic odyssey into the impact of advanced technology, revealing a world driven by the relentless march of progress.