Brightsparks Academy is a FREE online course that provides ten weeks of market-leading work experience in a fast-paced and vibrant social purpose business. The course focuses on digital marketing skills such as social media writing, personal branding and web design, and also teaches trainees valuable transferable skills too such as business administration & communication. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will support you to build a portfolio of experience and find your next career move with 1:1 work coaching and advice from our expert tutors.
Brightsparks Academy is perfect for people who are perhaps lacking confidence or in search of further training and development in order to take their next step into a career. It is open to people from all backgrounds, for example, parents looking to return to work after some time off and recent graduates hoping to kickstart a career.
A previous academy graduate and mum of two, Charlotte, applied for the programme because, “Both my children had just started school so I had more time to myself. It felt like a good time to start thinking about the future. I’d studied marketing at university but had been unable to begin a career due to ill-health, so this felt like a great opportunity to refresh my skills and pick up where I’d left off.”.
She also gave her top three reasons why someone should apply for the programme:
“The course gives you a great insight into what it’s like to work in a marketing agency, which means you get great experience that you can use to progress your career. That builds your confidence, too. It also helps you discover new things about yourself. So I’d say – in no particular order –
During the programme, you will receive mentoring and guidance from an experienced tutor and marketing professional and progress through modules designed to build your skills, such as:
– designing and building websites
– designing and delivering digital marketing campaigns
– creating social media content and industry best practice
– interpreting and delivering on live client briefs.
Unique to this course, you will also receive 1:1 work coaching from a learning development consultant, whose aim is to build your confidence, raise self-esteem and teach you to recognise your core strengths – because we all have them! Many of our previous trainees have described leaving with a sense of direction and understanding for what they want from a role, as well as what they can give, as explained by Beth:
100% of trainees from the 2019-20 cohort graduated from the programme, and 75% of those progressed into employment within two months of completion.
Although the course is designed to equip trainees with digital marketing skills, much of the course content is transferable to other industries and benefits those who are unsure what type of career they’d like, providing much-needed clarity as described by our previous graduate, Abbey:
If you’d like to learn more about the course or apply for the 2022 course, head to the Brightsparks Academy page; www.brightsparkscic.org.uk/brightsparks-academy. Or, if you know someone who’d be perfect for the course, share the opportunity with them!
Hurry – applications close on the 6th of January 2022.
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