Museum careers: My student placement at Culture Syndicates CIC
10th December 2019 In Industry Trends And Critical Analysis , Training And Employability One of Culture Syndicates’ main aims is to make the museum and heritage sector more accessible for prospective employees. They are acutely aware of the challenges most people face when trying to obtain entry-level employment in the sector, and want to try to remove the barriers to make the industry genuinely more diverse and appealing. My placement at Culture Syndicates fit within this brief, and, during the 35 hours I spent there, I researched and analysed museum careers and ways in which sector-entry could be improved. This research is for a report which will be given to Culture Syndicates’ Board of Directors and will hopefully trigger change. Research Over the last few months, I have conducted research to work out precisely why it is so difficult to enter into the museums and heritage sector. I commenced this research by looking at current career pathways, picking o...