{"id":15755,"date":"2020-12-07T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=15755"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:17:42","slug":"graduate-lucy-lands-a-role-with-itv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2020\/12\/07\/graduate-lucy-lands-a-role-with-itv\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Lucy lands a role with ITV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>This is a guest blog post by graduate Lucy Brady, graduate from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/ba-hons-television-production\">BA (Hons) Television Production.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Last February, I was fortunate enough to be offered a job at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/itv\/\" data-attribute-index=\"0\" data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:164505\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">ITV<\/a>\u00a0Daytime as a Studio Technician, working part-time alongside completing my TV Production degree at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/12573\/?legacySchoolId=12573\" data-attribute-index=\"2\" data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniSchool:12573\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_SCHOOL\">Bournemouth University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My contract was due to change to full-time in June, however, 2020 had other plans! Lockdown struck before I finished my training and the implementation of skeleton crews in studios, meant I was unable to continue working.<\/p>\n<p>I am so grateful to have had the amazing support from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/itv\/\" data-attribute-index=\"4\" data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:164505\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\">ITV<\/a>, my managers and all my fellow crew members on the studio floor. With special mention to Vicky Smith for looking after me so incredibly, throughout my five months of furlough.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to September, I was able to start full-time. Working at Television Centre across This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and Loose Women. I have been so privileged to work with such a skilled crew, who have been so encouraging and supportive. They make those 4am call times not seem so daunting!<\/p>\n<p>After graduating in such a confusing climate, I am so grateful for the opportunities I have had and feel so lucky to be a part of a hugely talented and welcoming team. I could not be more excited about this start to my career &#x1f44f;&#x1f3fb;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Brady-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15756\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Brady-blog-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Brady-blog-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Brady-blog-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucy-Brady-blog.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>To all the graduates looking for work, don\u2019t give up hope, there are amazing employers out there &#x1f499;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=buproud&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6734444675249270784\" data-attribute-index=\"8\">#BUproud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about studying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouth.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/ba-hons-television-production\">BA (Hons) Television Production<\/a> at BU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest blog post by graduate Lucy Brady, graduate from BA (Hons) Television Production. Last February, I was fortunate enough to be offered a job at\u00a0ITV\u00a0Daytime as a Studio Technician, working part-time alongside completing my TV Production degree at\u00a0Bournemouth University. My contract was due to change to full-time in June, however, 2020 had&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2020\/12\/07\/graduate-lucy-lands-a-role-with-itv\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Graduate Lucy lands a role with ITV<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":15756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669,1644,1675,501,12,1638],"tags":[877,357,358,1924,226,811],"class_list":["post-15755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pg-courses","category-employability","category-media-production","category-media-film-tv-music-production","category-student-blogs","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-careers","tag-employability","tag-graduates","tag-television-production","tag-undergraduate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15831,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15755\/revisions\/15831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}