RealWORKS Podcast: Graduate Journeys RealWORKS

Yasmin is a Marketing Assistant, proud founder of Flo Create. and a BA Fashion Marketing graduate of 2020.

“I have recently found my passion after realising the value of creative portfolios. I landed my first role in marketing last year and have since founded Flo Create – a portfolio support community for young professionals.”

In January 2021 Yasmin took to TikTok setting up Flo. Her daily advice and top tip videos quickly gained a massive following and by March she already had 10K followers.

The community is continually growing as Yasmin creates videos daily in her spare time after work and is currently (Aug 2021) at 95.2K Followers with an astonishing 1.0M likes in total.

I love this episode, loved speaking Yasmin, and this is just legitimate evidence that however much it doesn’t seem like it will at the time, hard work does pay off.



Website: https://www.flo-create.co.uk

Instagram: flo.create_

Tik-Tok: flo.creative 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flocreate

Felix is a freelance Photographer and Videographer who graduated in 2019 from BA Marine and Natural History Photography. We talk about some of the projects he’s been working on during the pandemic, we discuss dealing with rejection as a freelancer, we talk about this new internship, and we chat a little bit about the term transferable skills and what it means to us.

Rebecca is an Art Director and Concept Artist for Animation as well as a Textiles Artist who graduated in 2009 from BA Illustration. In this episode we talk about her journey towards finding the right MA for her, we talk about her decision and progression to working in Animation from her original illustration pathway and we touch upon her cross disciplinary practices as an artist and how they’ve translated to the core role she’s in now.

Ellen is an Actor, Writer and Creative who graduated from BA English & Creative Writing in 2018. In this episode we talk about networking and overcoming anxieties around that, we talk about the pursuit of her aspired career as an actor, and we touch upon office-based sitcoms and ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’.