00:02 My name is Andy Cole and I’m Head of Talent at Vue Entertainment.
00:05 Vue entertainment would be very well known as an excellent Cinema company and I imagine there’ll be one very near, most of the people watching this film.
00:14 My job would be regarded as part of a human resources function. So it’s about training people and about recruiting people.
00:23 On got on with school OK. I was probably one of the fidgety, slightly naughty, difficult kids. I was good, always good at art, so I was always good at drama, always good at English, was always good at music, was in bands etc. so things that had a creative flair to them, I knew early on that was where my heart lie really.
00:42 I had a particularly good drama teacher. So when I was about 12 or so I got involved in a lot of drama, both in school and out of school.
00:52 The only thing that I knew about, that I wanted to do was to help other people. Helping out in charity shops, I’d done some volunteering work, it was something about doing something to help somebody else, I hadn’t a clue what that would end up looking like.
01:08 My dad’s a successful engineer in, in his career, my mum looked after me, my brother and sister. At home there was absolutely nothing, that would have said that you know that kids, you know in the line of, of creativity in the family. I did, did my A levels and went on to, to do English at University. My parents wanted me to be a teacher at that point, um, I didn’t really want to do that and so I convinced them that if I did English then I could always become a teacher later and wouldn’t it be a good idea if I moved away from home, which I did all of those things and then I had a blast and then I didn’t really know what I wanted to do next.
01:47 I did have the kind of spectre of my parents looming down on me saying you now must get a job. My father made me take the Civil Service entrance exam, which I did, I passed and I joined, I didn’t join the civil service actually I joined the police service. You could, you could join that as an alternative, so I became what’s known as an executive officer in the civil service working for the Met Police.
02:09 My first job was in a local nick in South Norward Police station, taking people to court for traffic offences. So I was doing traffic administration in the police service, in London, I’d moved away from where I was from and I was managing 12 people, all of whom were older than me. Very strange.
02:29 So I, I did that for a couple of years, um, er, before I tried to find a, you know more opportunities elsewhere. I’d tried very hard to get myself promoted within the police service, which I did, and then that led me to get a job in central London, in a, what was called then a personnel function, so that was what would now be known as Human Resources.
02:49 I did that and then I actually started to think, oh I’m quite good at that, I quite like doing it, so I started to get better at it. And then I joined a railway, so quite big organisations, quite tough places, quite a lot of rules and procedures which was actually not me at all.
03:08 I think I fell into things after university and then I, after a couple of years in work I started to navigate. Now that was partly career orientated, and it was also partly family orientated, because I had a responsibilities as a, as a young father and you’ve just gotta, you’ve gotta pay the bills.
03:23 Many people think of Cinema as a job that they might do while they’re at college, or to get a few extra hours, um, in addition to something else that they’re doing. All of those things are, are absolutely there for us as a company, but also you’ve got a great career here and, and a cinema is, is a big business and you can be a very young man or woman running a, a, a big business, responsible for a lot of people, which is well regarded in its community. And moving into Vue Entertainment was a great opportunity for me to do what I’d done for a number of years, but in a really exciting business.
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Andy Cole
Andy Cole
My name is Andy Cole and I’m Head of Talent at Vue Entertainment.
Vue entertainment would be very well known as an excellent Cinema company and I imagine there’ll be one very near, most of the people watching this film.
My job would be regarded as part of a human resources function. So it’s about training people and about recruiting people.
On got on with school OK. I was probably one of the fidgety, slightly naughty, difficult kids. I was good, always good at art, so I was always good at drama, always good at English, was always good at music, was in bands etc. so things that had a creative flair to them, I knew early on that was where my heart lie really.
I had a particularly good drama teacher. So when I was about 12 or so I got involved in a lot of drama, both in school and out of school.
The only thing that I knew about, that I wanted to do was to help other people. Helping out in charity shops, I’d done some volunteering work, it was something about doing something to help somebody else, I hadn’t a clue what that would end up looking like.
My dad’s a successful engineer in, in his career, my mum looked after me, my brother and sister. At home there was absolutely nothing, that would have said that you know that kids, you know in the line of, of creativity in the family. I did, did my A levels and went on to, to do English at University. My parents wanted me to be a teacher at that point, um, I didn’t really want to do that and so I convinced them that if I did English then I could always become a teacher later and wouldn’t it be a good idea if I moved away from home, which I did all of those things and then I had a blast and then I didn’t really know what I wanted to do next.
I did have the kind of spectre of my parents looming down on me saying you now must get a job. My father made me take the Civil Service entrance exam, which I did, I passed and I joined, I didn’t join the civil service actually I joined the police service. You could, you could join that as an alternative, so I became what’s known as an executive officer in the civil service working for the Met Police.
My first job was in a local nick in South Norward Police station, taking people to court for traffic offences. So I was doing traffic administration in the police service, in London, I’d moved away from where I was from and I was managing 12 people, all of whom were older than me. Very strange.
So I, I did that for a couple of years, um, er, before I tried to find a, you know more opportunities elsewhere. I’d tried very hard to get myself promoted within the police service, which I did, and then that led me to get a job in central London, in a, what was called then a personnel function, so that was what would now be known as Human Resources.
I did that and then I actually started to think, oh I’m quite good at that, I quite like doing it, so I started to get better at it. And then I joined a railway, so quite big organisations, quite tough places, quite a lot of rules and procedures which was actually not me at all.
I think I fell into things after university and then I, after a couple of years in work I started to navigate. Now that was partly career orientated, and it was also partly family orientated, because I had a responsibilities as a, as a young father and you’ve just gotta, you’ve gotta pay the bills.
Many people think of Cinema as a job that they might do while they’re at college, or to get a few extra hours, um, in addition to something else that they’re doing. All of those things are, are absolutely there for us as a company, but also you’ve got a great career here and, and a cinema is, is a big business and you can be a very young man or woman running a, a, a big business, responsible for a lot of people, which is well regarded in its community. And moving into Vue Entertainment was a great opportunity for me to do what I’d done for a number of years, but in a really exciting business.
Andy Cole is the Head of Talent at Vue Entertainment, "My job would be regarded as part of a human resources function. So it's about training people and about recruiting people". He says, "Many people think of Cinema as a job that they might do while they're at college... but also you've got a great career here, a cinema is a big business. You can be a very young man or woman running a big business, responsible for a lot of people".
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