What Influences Employability?

Employability is:
"the skills and abilities that allow you to be employed"

(Cambridge Dictionary, 2019)

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In the events industry one of the main skills that makes you employable as a practitioner is your technical ability, this is key to you being able to carry out your job. Developing technical ability can be achieved through practice and experience, it also can be developed through training and courses that are offered by manufacturers. examples of this are Avolites Training Academy and Audinates Dante certification. the former is an in-person paid training with 2 levels, one in operating and the other in programming. the latter is a free set of certifications for the Dante networking protocol that takes place online. By completing pieces of training like these an employer has credit to your stated ability which would make it easier to employ you. (avolites, n.d.) (Audinate, 2016)

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While training courses certainly benefit technical knowledge actual practice and experience are also key to appealing to employers. Through social media, a practitioner can create a portfolio to show their progression and development through the work they do. Social media has a wide reach with 4.95 billion users worldwide (Dean, 2024) this makes many platforms useful for promotion and exposure. Each platform has differing ways of presenting your media as well as different audiences that will see this media.

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