There are a few types of employment statuses in the Creative Media sector, which I have listed below:
Firstly, you have full-time employees. There are a lot of roles in the creative industry that require permanent employees, some of which are not just office-based. For example, Jemel's company, Livenation, have full-time employees that work solely on design, while Edun's company, Studio Canal, have those based in different parts of the distribution sector. Saying that, part-time employees fall under the same category as full-time employees, the major difference being that they don't work five days a week.
Next is the contracted-employees. Contracted employees have a specific amount of time they will work on a project/at a place. This type of employment can be seen when a production of a film is taking place. I, for one, have come across many contracts where a fair few people have been employed for a specific amount of time (usually referred to as weekly contracts). With this type of employment, unlike the one I am going to speak about below, usually, you will only be able to work on one specific project at a time.
Freelancing is another common type of employment in the creative industry. As a freelancer you are selling a product that you supply, whether that be your make-up services, something you have made etc. Most people, as with contracts, work in this way because there aren't many full-time jobs that let you deal with the creative side of the industry as much. Freelancers also have the freedom to work on other projects, not just one in a way that a contracted employee would.
Unpaid work is very common in the creative industry. As the old saying goes, "The more experience, the better" there are many people that will go without pay when it comes to getting a good job. These people can fall under either being volunteers, where they have signed up for a job under the guise as a volunteer (mostly applied to when it comes to charities) or as interns who are usually taken on when a helping hand is needed, sometimes for a few weeks, in other cases, a few months. Interning is similar to having an extended time of work experience, which is for much shorter type than internships are. In some cases, interns do get paid, but very rarely.
Lastly, the type of employee that I am at the moment (an apprentice) is also another employment status out there - apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships don't fit under contracted work because, while working, you will also be studying for a qualification. Nor does it fall under unpaid work, because there is a pay cheque each month. As an apprentice, you are learning all the on-the-job experience that someone doing an internship would, but you are getting paid for it, too.
There is also room for people to swap and change from these kinds of employment, too. Some people may be volunteering while also working as a freelancer or a contracted employee may be getting in freelancer jobs as well.
These kinds of employment statuses aren't just centered around the creative media industry, either. Lots of other industries outside of the creative sector have different types of employment that fall under the ones that I have covered.
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