Lots of people want to work in the media, whether on magazines, websites, video, TV, radio, newspapers or PR.
Getting a job isn’t easy, though. You need specific training if you want to be a journalist.
It’s also highly competitive, so your chances are greatly improved if you achieve a qualification that employers will trust.
The standard route has been to go to university (any degree will do), then take a specific postgraduate journalism course. But that takes almost four years. These days, it costs thousands — and could leave you with a ton of debt.
Now there’s another way. The UK’s elite journalism training provider, PMA Media Training, is offering Post A-Level students a fast-track route into a media career.
For the first time, prompted by demand from schools’ careers officers, it’s running a version of its Postgraduate Multimedia Magazine Journalism Diploma especially for students who’ve decided against going to university and want a job in the media, but still need the skills that employers demand.
PMA has a great track record: more than 95 per cent of those chosen for its twice-yearly course get jobs within three months of finishing. One was recently made Magazine Editor of the Year in an industry awards scheme; another was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (journalism’s equivalent of the Oscars).
PMA has been training journalists for over 30 years. That means it has matchless contacts with media employers — and it’s why some of the UK’s biggest media companies have agreed to take on apprentices who complete this Post A-level course.
They know people with a PMA qualification have all the right skills and are worth employing.
An explosion in digital media means that new jobs are being created all the time. It could be shooting videos, building apps, designing web pages or creating the content needed to fill all those pages.
Many of those jobs are for journalists — the people who produce the words, pictures and sounds — but you can also be employed in other roles too, whether on the business, technical or sales side.
People want to work in the media because it can be glamorous and fun. (It’s hard work, too!) The training that PMA gives you prepares you with crucial skills that stand you in good stead for life, leading to many opportunities. This includes:
· Communicating clearly, in writing and verbally
· Dealing with the latest digital technology
· Getting on with people and being part of a team
· Meeting deadlines
· Working under pressure
· Learning to think fast and on your feet
The world of media and journalism is large, but you need specific skills if you’re going to get a job there in today’s competitive market. PMA’s qualification will give you a head start. It could put you up to four years ahead of your mates who go to university — and it will make you highly employable.
Apply here NOW… we only take 12 candidates, and you get trained in the offices of the UK’s most prestigious press agency, The Press Association in Victoria, central London. You really will be at the heart of the magazine and newspaper journalism industry.
