LCF Grad Futures: Start-up Essentials

Supporting your professional ambitionsStudying at LCF gives you access to the focused careers and enterprise services, events and resources from the Graduate Futures team. Whatever your career, freelancer or business start-up ambitions, Graduate Futures works to provide current students and alumni with advice direct from industry thought leaders. We provide a safe place to encourage you to be comfortable with risk, ambiguity and experimentation. Graduate Futures supports the whole of your LCF journey and beyond, to enable you to innovate, create and achieve.Our support is free and accessible to all LCF students, graduates and alumni. Most of our opportunities are open to all, but some might be limited to specific groups - we'll make it clear when this is the case.Enjoy our events? Check out our podcast, 'Careers in Fashion'.Our supportOur services are tailored to prepare students to join the creative and cultural industries, showcasing the relationship between:careers knowledge;entrepreneurial skills;personal and professional development.We offer a progressive model; learn through online resources, develop in real-time sessions and practice with industry.We support your independent learning through:Creating an extensive range of industry-focused podcasts, online modules, learning guides and videos.We enable your development through:Running specialist one-to-one coaching support.Providing a programme of practical and interactive skills building events, webinars and workshops to build your confidence.Access to our support when finding exciting industry placement opportunities as part of an accredited course.We encourage practicing your new skills through:Collaborating with our network of other universities and organisations during topical networking debates, hackathons and panel talks.Enter live industry-led projects and competitions.