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(man) The Creative Jobs Programme came about
when the Royal Opera House and a group of other organisations in London
got together to offer six-month work placements
to young people who had been out of work for more than six months.
We're trying to give those young people
a sense of the excitement and buzz you can get
from making things happen in theatres and museums and galleries.
What we had, working in places as diverse as this place
or St Martin-in-the-Fields or the V&A
or English National Opera, a variety of locations.
We had people working in all sorts of different departments,
but the sort of departments which go towards making a theatre work.
My placement is as an operations assistant
working on day-to-day stuff,
all the different departments in the theatre.
So the box office,
working with the creative director or project manager,
just helping out with them, seeing what they do, learning from them.
They all taught me everything they knew.
They were happy to let me learn and give me work to do.
Opportunities like this give the people chance to show what they're capable of.
I feel that I'm a lot more better equipped
to be able to go someplace with confidence
and say, "I've gained these skills from working."
(Steve) I think public funding for programmes like this is important.
We've gotta help get young people back into work.
Like, people who complain
that there's a lot of people out on the streets not doing anything -
if we want that to change,
we have to help young people get back into the field of work.
For the future, I feel that having something like this on my CV
and having this kind of experience
will help me quite a lot.
There are a lot of transferable skills I've learned.
Yeah, the confidence and the fun that I've had from this,
I'm pretty sure I can just take it on to whatever I choose to do.
Working in the Theatre Royal has changed my point of view,
because it's not somewhere I thought I'd be working -
in a theatre or marketing.
And especially from going to the Royal Opera House.
Now I can see myself being there.
Before, I would never have thought of going to the Opera House
or applying to a job like that or a museum. But now, definitely.
The skill I think I've learned is definitely creative writing.
I'm doing a press release. It's not something I'd ever done before,
trying to sell a show to people.
I feel very confident going forward in the future and applying for jobs,
cos I now have experience doing a range of things.
I've met people from all different backgrounds,
all over, different places, all over, galleries and museums.
I've had a wonderful opportunity.
For me it was more about communication and teamwork.
Within Exhibition Road the Cultural Group is a very small team,
so you constantly need to talk to one another, find out what's going on.
It's helped me so much. It's given me a lot of confidence in my chosen area.
I had experience,
but doing it kind of day to day
and not just, like, a one-day-a-week- for-a-month kind of thing.
It's getting in there, observing everything that's going on.
And I've had a lot of support from the staff, who've been really great.
My mentor was great. She puts me in touch
with the people that she thinks would be of benefit,
and, you know, constantly talking me through my goals.
(Hall) My strong belief is that this will become an essential part
of what the Arts Council funds.
And what I like about this scheme is
it's us, the arts sector -
an area, if you include us in cultural industries,
more broadly in creative industries,
an area of real growth in the economy, and we need to be looking at growth.
It's us helping another generation of people find their way.
So it's really important that we make sure
that people come from every possible background,
there's an equality of opportunity to come and work in places like this.
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