Over the next 2 years we need to complete 80hours of work attachment. This involves being supervised by a professional ‘media’ practitioner. The idea of this that we will have the opportunity to apply skills you’ve acquired so far and use it in a professional context. It also provide the beginnings of a professional network so this is vitally important. RMIT insures us higher than personal injury e.g. you pull out a plug and their servers go and they lose money, everyone is covered. Sometimes students get a role in channel 31 but this is not classified as work attachment as anyone can work there. After the attachment we have to write at least 1,500 words about our experience.

When we find a place we need to contact the careers officers, this gets the ball rolling. There is also a process of registering
What to do when contacting:

• Figure out priorities and what you want to achieve
• Start with a list of the skills you currently have, and the specific skills you’d like to develop. (say you want to gain experience)
• Look at the organization and find out what youll actually be doin
• Identify yourself as an RMIT media student and specify looking for attachment rather than a placement. You need to differentiate yourself as a tertiary student

To get help with a CV resume the careers hub can help. A letter of introduction or Expression of interest should be used when sending an email to the organisation .

One question i have is whether it would be better to email off my personal email or RMIT email. I need to find out

My ideal attachments are:
Film Victoria, Film Australia, Working Dog production, Oh Yeah Wow
these would be very hard to get an attachment to however. So ill need to have a look around at some smaller ones.