Breaking down silos, shaking up recruitment practices and expanding careers discussed at first of two conferences to support freelancers

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Breaking down isolation, reorganizing recruiting methods, and expanding careers were discussed at the first of two conferences to support freelancers

The first Freelancer Festival took place on June 13, delivering clear messages to freelancers facing challenging market conditions and a huge level of uncertainty in their careers. Created by TV Mindset and Action For Freelancers, the day of panel discussions, workshops and networking took place in east London and was driven by a "fervent desire to break down barriers", according to TV Mindset founder Adil Amini. The event seeks to unite and empower freelancers, help them decide on their next career step, and feel more connected and less lonely.

The second free freelancer festival will take place in Glasgow on June 21, and here are five of Broadcast's top takeaways from the London event. Broadcasters need to get closer to freelancers Former freelancer-turned-commissioner editor at UKTV,

Emil Nawagamuwa, delivered the keynote speech, calling for greater transparency between "the people who make television and the people who broadcast it." "Broadcasters and freelancers need to communicate and collaborate better than we do now," he said. "We desperately need to move away from this long-distance relationship at arm's length that many

freelancers tell me they've been through." According to him, there is a "really clear barrier between client and supplier" between production companies, freelancers and broadcasters, which is reinforced by the fact that those who work for broadcasters have full-time contracts.

Nawagamuwa acknowledged that some imbalance is inevitable in a situation where one party pays the other, but noted that clients need to make more effort to reach out to freelancers working on the projects they commission. "I think one of the most important tasks for broadcasters and commissioners is to be interested in freelancers, to get to know them, to talk to them as people, as colleagues," he said, adding that they should be treated "with the same high standards and respect as we treat our valued writers and even our talents." Need to change the recruiting system Given the lack of vacancies in this field, when it comes to recruiting people for existing vacancies,

Disability consultant and creative strategist Ally Castle believes that when it comes to recruitment, the industry is still “stuck in old systems”, where people are alerted to jobs by word of mouth or closed WhatsApp +48886122792 groups. Ideally, she said, every job would be advertised on a public platform, but she acknowledged this is unlikely to happen any time soon. And she warned that, given the scarcity of available roles at present, “disproportionately, the underrepresented minoritized groups are going to be the ones that are more negatively affected”.

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