My CVs

Hey everyone - I'm being made redundant from my teaching job at the School of Sound Recording. Ive been at SSR for nearly 10 years, in fact, it would be 10 years in March 2006. I know why this has happened, and I would imagine that a lot of teachers everywhere, in many colleges, are in the same boat. Basically, I blame Gordon Brown. Government funding is being cut drastically, which means that Jobcentre Plus are unable to offer specialist courses to the unemployed. When Labour came to power in the late 90s, New Deal For Musicians started up, and in 2000, SSR was able to tap into this nice lucrative earner. Unfortunately, this is all at an end now, and the competition for teaching jobs is going to be huge as many teachers are facing redundancy.

However, I am not particularly worried about my income as i am a qualified electrician. Ive not been a pro spark since 1996, but ive not abandoned it either. I rewired my own house when i bought it in 2001 - best job i ever did! And throughout my time at SSR I've done many installs and improvements, never once forgetting any of my skill. I may have lost some speed, but thats only natural. Im good at lots of stuff and i've put together two CVs which bias towards the type of work i have done in the past. I may be forced to fall back on my past career and return to Fire Alarm / Fire Engineering if i can't find a similar job to what i do now.

CV for Electrician and Fire Alarms.
CV for Teaching & Music experience.

Drop us a line - i will be working 4 weeks notice, and i leave SSR on the 18th November. Ideally i would like to stay within the Music Business, perhaps working in Publishing, Marketing, Promoting, Management, Record Labels, Production Companies and the like. I have picked up a range of transferable skills which would benefit any of these areas, i am certain. One area which really interests me is Web / Graphic Design. What i really need here is to find an entry level job so that i can get trained up on Dreamweaver / Flash / Photoshop / Illustrator etc.