Where creative ambition meets opportunity.
Every great creative career starts somewhere. The Lab connects emerging talent with verified employers who see your potential, not just your experience.
A clear path from where you are to where you want to be.
Create your account
Sign up and build your profile, your skills, your work and where you want to grow.
Discover verified roles
Browse opportunities from trusted employers, all within the transparent salary range.
Apply with confidence
Use Launchpad to polish your CV and prepare for interviews before you apply.
Start your career
Get hired and keep growing with ongoing career support from The Lab. Opt in to Talent Discovery and let verified employers find you directly.
No experience? No qualifications? No problem.
Lab Briefs exist for one reason: to give every creative a fair chance to prove what they can do, regardless of their background.
Not everyone has had the opportunity to build a conventional CV. You might be self-taught, a recent graduate, or someone changing careers. Lab Briefs let you show employers your real skills through practical, real-world tasks, not just a list of past jobs.
Employers set briefs across creative disciplines, from social content to brand design. You choose the ones that match your interests, complete the work in your own time, and submit it for employers to review. Your submission becomes evidence of your ability, sitting alongside your profile and portfolio.
Browse Lab BriefsWho benefits?
Candidates
Show your talent through real work, not just a CV. Build a portfolio of evidence that proves your skills to employers, even if you are just starting out.
Employers
See genuine, candidate-created work before you hire. Identify real potential and creativity that a traditional CV might miss.
How it works
- 1Choose a brief that matches your creative discipline.
- 2Complete the work in your own time, following the brief guidelines.
- 3Confirm the work is yours and submit it for employer review.
- 4Your submission appears on your profile as evidence of your skills.
Make your work stand out.
Your CV is the first thing employers see. Launchpad gives you templates, guidance and real examples to help you present your creative work with confidence.
- Clean, creative CV templates
- Guidance on what employers actually look for
- Tips for showcasing your portfolio
Career support, built in.
Launchpad is your career resource centre, with CV support, interview guidance, salary guides and more. Everything you need to navigate your first creative role.
Explore LaunchpadQuestions, answered.
No. Our programmes are designed for entry-level to early-career roles only. We do not train for senior, lead or management positions. Our focus is helping students secure stable, employable roles with realistic progression.
Your next step starts here.
Join The Lab and start your journey toward a creative career with verified employers and transparent pay.