Are there job placement services and internships?
Does the school keep an active file of potential employers looking for new hires, and will they help you contact them, or will they just tell you to look up names in the Mix Master Directory? Internships, which allow you to spend a predetermined amount of time in an entry-level position at a studio or a company, are incredibly helpful in understanding how the business works and how to behave in a real work environment. Sometimes internships are paid, but if they aren t, it makes them no less valuable. Occasionally, internships can even lead to a job with the same company but if you make that an expectation of your internship, you may well be disappointed, and it could end up backfiring. Often enough, internships will show you what kind of job you don t want and that s an important part of your education, too. BACK | NEXT Reprinted with permission from Magazine, November, 2000 2000, Intertec Publishing, A Primedia Company All Rights Reserved.
