Multimedia specialist : Career development

Multimedia specialists can work their way up to senior designer/studio manager positions. Some move between different employers to gain wider experience or promotion and salary increases.

Others use their IT skills to move into other areas of information and communications technology (ICT), for example:

• management roles, such as project manager, leading a team of specialists, or account manager, with greater client contact;
• technical roles, for example, in computer programming, applications development or website management;
• creative roles, such as art director, or website/CD content writer.

Although large organisations generally offer more opportunities for promotion to supervisory and management positions, smaller firms will sometimes offer greater responsibility earlier. They may also provide the opportunity to gain skills and experience across a range of specialisms and in different areas of the business more quickly.

Lecturing in further or higher education may be an option for those who want to pass on their skills and knowledge to others.

Some experienced multimedia specialists become self-employed, working on a contract or consultancy basis and building up their own client base.