Media Talent Bank is a collective of creatives, media organisations and freelancers. Through this robust online database of individuals, employers can source the hottest creative talent around through personalised profiles.
This project is funded by Digital Central and managed by Media Content Lab part of Birmingham City University with the aim of galvanising the West Midlands creative and media communities into a strong and sustainable sector
It’ll be interesting to see how this takes off. If you’re a creative type then I’d say it’s probably worth a couple of minutes of your time to fill out a profile – you never know who might be looking to give you some work.
Another site maybe worth checking is Behance. It’s not for everyone though – you have to ask to be invited – but it aims to be a (fairly prestigious) platform for the world’s leading creative professionals. There’s a few folks from Birmingham on there but of those, only Suzie Webb (website) has had a mention here before.
Media Talent Bank had a small amount of development funds through Digital Central quite a long time ago. It’s by and large funded by the University themselves I think.
As well as the talent search thingy the blog has some useful articles on it.
Thanks Chris. Also we’re currently looking for bloggers, if you’re interested (and have some level of industry experience) please get in touch via:
info@mediatalentbank.com
Cheers