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PENANG, 4 October 2022 – Designed by creatives for creatives, Cult Creative is bringing back its Future List 2022 career summit, partnering with leading local and international universities to secure graduates’ futures into the creative industry. Held on 29 October 2022 in Penang, Future List 2022 is a one-day live and virtual initiative to nurture creative talents by opening opportunities to expose students and jobseekers.
“Coming out from a pandemic, the traditional workplace environment that we are used to is completely transformed to a digital-centric environment. To help with the transition, this initiative aims to enrich, empower and expose creative graduates to different perspectives, skills and creative insights. Designed by creatives for creatives, we want to equip go-getters with high-quality content and resources to pursue their goals and find their feet in the ever-evolving creative industry, while fostering relationships between the growing creative community,” said Lisa Esa, Editorial Director and Co-founder of Cult Creative.
Empowering creatives to take control of their futures
Jobseekers are living through some of the most uncertain times in the past century—from a global pandemic to an economic recession and the highest unemployment rate to date. So, what gives hope for graduates? For Cult Creative, a professional network app for job-seeking creatives and employers to find each other, the future is now.
As a result, fostering new creative talent is more important than ever. The class of 2022 are stepping out into a different playing field than when things were pre-pandemic. Workplaces, communication tools and values are different. However, this new environment is more welcoming for fresh ideas because of these changing scenarios. Switching from onsite to online in a heartbeat, fresh graduates grew resilience, motivation, and persistence, which will be turned into creative achievements in a few years. Now, graduates are given time to self-reflect and face their role in the world to yield more passionate and dynamic creative work.
“There has been a massive shift in the job landscape for creative graduates, especially over the last couple of years, due to unforeseen circumstances. Jobseekers are now needed to pivot and adapt to the changing environment, to stand out from the crowd. Cult Creative’s career summit serves as the perfect platform for grads to future-proof themselves, while upskilling and networking with the larger creative community to help discover new opportunities,” said Junady Nawawi, Group CEO of MyCreative Ventures.
Future List 2022 and Top Future 100 List
Malaysia’s only creative career summit aims to nurture creative talents by opening opportunities to expose students and jobseekers of all levels to arts, design, digital, and media in cooperation with the MyCreative Ventures, HPC, DigitalPenang and Universal Music Group (UMG). Focused industries include graphic design, social media, digital marketing, copywriting videography and photography.
Additionally, Cult Creative is also partnering with 11 notable universities and programmes to spotlight creative work from this year’s best and most creative students in Top 100 Future List 2022. Partner universities include University Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARUC), Equator College, Raffles College of Higher Education, Segi University, Asia Pacific University, Taylor’s Design School, Monash University, and Multimedia University (MMU). The eligibility and application criteria to be featured in Top 100 Future List ’22 can be found here.
In addition, creative jobseekers can also look forward to being amongst the first to apply for opportunities via Cult Creative’s Web Lite launching during the summit. This would be a new product offering after months of feedback from its current user base and the demand of the industry’s job market. It will also have job sharing capabilities and users can expect further web features to be rolled out in the coming months.
Future List 2022 will be held at Georgetown’s Wisma Yeap Chor Ee on 29 October, 2022. Tickets are currently available for purchase here. Passes for Malaysia’s only creative career summit are priced at RM35, inclusive of light refreshments. Attendees are strongly recommended to register as soon as possible to secure their spot for the in-person experience.
Meanwhile, the virtual Future List experience is free for everyone, and is accessible via the Cult Creative app – now available in app stores for Android and iOS. To keep up with the latest news from Cult Creative, visit https://www.cultcreative.asia/ and check out the socials at: Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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About Cult Creative
We champion and connect Malaysia’s most valued creative community through amazing portfolios, collaborative features, and opportunities regionally. Designed by creatives for creatives, Cult Creative is a professional network app for job-seeking creatives and employers to find each other. We’re more than a platform—we’re a collective, dedicated to helping our local creative workforce achieve their greatest ambitions.
Sponsors
MyCreative Ventures is a Government investment arm launched in September 2012 to spur Malaysia’s creative industry via strategic and innovative funding through debt or equity investments in Malaysian creative companies. RM200 million was allocated from the 2012 Malaysian Budget to help boost the creative industry’s significance to the Malaysian economy.
MyCreative Ventures is coming in as a Strategic Partner for Future List 2022 with the Opening address conducted by Guest of Honor, MyCreative CEO, Junady Nawawi.
HPC is responsible for driving Malaysia’s talent development aspirations through the collection of levy from employers and the funding of training and development programmes for the Malaysian workforce. In recent years they’ve evolved their mission to include driving employment and industrial training placements, career coaching and counselling and developing income generating opportunities for Malaysians from a diverse range of skillsets, backgrounds and capabilities.
HPC will be coming in as a Content Partner for Future List 2022.
Digital Penang is a government-linked company owned by the State of Penang, which began operations in April 2020 to accelerate efforts to capture opportunities in the digital economy and promote a digitally engaged society. With a vision to create a connected, creative and competitive society.
To bring to life the Penang2030 vision of a family-focused, green and Smart State, the journey of transformation will focus on driving digital adoption amongst the community, more data-driven governance, a diverse talent pool for entrepreneurship and investment, and a resilient digital infrastructure to sustain a liveable environment. Digital Penang will be coming in as a Venue Sponsorship for Future List 2022.
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment that owns and operates a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 territories.
UMG identifies and develops recording artists and songwriters, and produces, distributes and promotes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
UMG is coming in as Gold Sponsor for Future List 2022 with Managing Director Kim Lim gracing the Top 100 Talent Competition with her presence as an esteemed judge.
