How To Get A Job In The Music Industry & Get Hired!

[Music] hey there this is Logan Crockett with full-circle music I am coming to you from our recording studios here in Nashville Tennessee and we are here today to answer your questions about the music industry you guys asked how do you get a job in the music industry I'm gonna tell you so first of all I want to make a differentiation between having a job and then actually being an entrepreneur there is a difference so a lot of people don't realize that with the music industry there are creative careers such as being a songwriter being a music producer being a an artist who's on stage and these particular our career options do often involve relationships with other professional businesses such as if I'm a songwriter I might have a professional relationship or a contract with a publishing company if I'm an artist I might be with a record label so you do have those kind of relationships often enough but that is very very different from quote employment with those kind of relationships there might be some financial benefits that are involved but it is very very different from what most people think of as a job or as work where you actually go somewhere and you work a certain number of hours and you get paid a certain amount for those hours that's not at all how it works and that gets a lot of people into trouble when they're first looking for jobs on that creative side because they don't realize that what you're really doing in those cases as you're being your own boss yes you're making relationships to the companies but really you're your own boss you are a self-employed individual you are an entrepreneur you have your own business you're doing your own taxes so if you want to go into any creative fields in the music industry like those I just want you to be aware of that and and know that that's the path that you're going down now for the rest of this video I want to talk to those of you who want a job in the more traditional sense in the music industry something that's a little bit more behind the scenes but something that is actually quote employed something where you do go work a certain number of hours and then you get paid a certain amount for those hours typically so those might involve things like I said that are a little bit more behind the scenes that are things like what I'm doing like marketing I you also have things like radio you have a lot of jobs that involve production on the road you have a lot of jobs that might be working for a venue a lot of things like that that are just more hey I'm working for a company those are the kinds of things that I want to talk about here so let's say that you do want a job like that which can be nice it can offer a lot of stability and almost no matter what you're doing the music industry if you're really passionate about music there's a good chance that you're going to enjoy what you do so when it comes to actually getting one of those jobs the problem is is that a lot of positions in the music industry are extremely competitive because a lot of people do want to work in the music industry for a lot of people it's very much a dream to get to work in the music industry so the music industry unfortunately does have a little bit of a tendency to overworked and underpaid people that's just the reality when it's a really a field that a lot of people really really want to get into so the first my first piece of advice would be to specialize you want to specialize in a particular area we've had a lot of people come through our world recently and they're like you know I really want to be in the music industry but I just don't know exactly what I want to do and the problem with that is if you're an employer if you here's someone who has a job and you're interested in interested in hiring you don't want to hire someone who quote isn't sure what they want to do in the industry even if they want to be in the music industry that's great but but if I have a specific position for free even something like I'm just running administration or those kind of clerical duties at say recording studio I want I want to hire someone who's actually really really interested in doing that exact position I don't want to hire someone who isn't sure what they want to do and then maybe they I give them that position but maybe they realize that they're not interested in that at all and then they move out of it you know a few months later as an employer it's really good to have someone who's going to stay around for a long time you want to make sure that your position is a great fit for them and that they're a great fit for your company so in order to specialize in order to actually figure out what you want to do in the music industry I would highly encourage you to talk to any professionals in the music industry that you know wow that's a really great place to start also just doing a bunch of research literally googling hey what kind of careers are out there in the music industry that can help a lot you can definitely go to music industry events and conferences you that's a great place to network and meet a lot of people who are in the music industry and figure out what a lot of people do and of course you can always intern even a lot of people don't realize this but with interning you don't have to be in college we've had interns around full circle music who have been well into their 30s I think even in some cases 40s and you can go ahead and if you can provide value to a company or I mean really just if you're interested in interning there's a good chance that a lot of companies would be interested in having you on as an intern and interning can be a nice low-risk way to kind of get your feet wet in the music industry and get more familiar with how things operate and see if you like doing specific tasks and jobs versus other things so specialization is definitely going to be the first key the first thing you really got to figure out if you want a job because because like I said employers need to know that the opportunity that they're giving you is something that you actually really really really want so once your specialized once you know what path you want to pursue in the music industry the second step is really just to get really really really good at that specialization you want to develop that skill set kind of like anything a lot of times with jobs I had in that career sort of sense we don't think of it like this for some reason but let's actually take a music analogy I have a friend who is an amazing violin player and the reason he's an amazing violin player is because he has done what cliche awesome musicians do and lived like his whole college life in practice rooms he lived a lot of his high school life in I've been practicing at home what he did to get so good is practiced and it's the same thing with almost any skill set not just a musical skill set or like an athletic skill set if you want to get good at a skill set that is invaluable towards a career a lot of the secret to being recognized for that and actually getting really good at it is practice so um whether you whether you do your own music and you can kind of work on some of those skills and practice those job skill sets with your own music or whether you have other artists or musicians in your area that you can just help out for free just like anything back to the violin analogy when you first start you're not gonna be very good no one's gonna be asking you to come play at these events and that's because you're not very good how do you become really good you practice and unfortunate that's just the reality with a lot of career opportunities in the music industry you have to practice and get good at something before you're going to be good enough at it to actually rise to the top and be one of the ones that all these companies are desperate to hire so so really just just practice the skill set and also learn that there's a lot of there are there are courses I mean we of course do the full circle Music Academy we have a lot of courses in training too to help it develop skill sets but there's a lot of things out there across the internet and in books and everything like that and I would definitely encourage you instead of just practicing on your own just like again back to the violin analogy I don't learn on your own get a violent instructor get a violin teacher get a method book that'll kind of walk you through how to actually have proper technique you don't want to kind of develop bad habits or just learn in inefficient ways and so so so see what the experts have have have to say go and learn from them and that'll accelerate your ability to progress in your skill set and much quicker and so the last thing that I'm going to the last bit of advice that I'm going to give as it relates to getting a job in the music industry number is being really really good with people this is important for two particular reasons number one again like I said that the music industry is a very very very competitive place and a lot of people would love to have a job in the music industry so if you have a really really awesome skill set but you're not that great to be around as a person or is just someone to get along with in the workplace then it's going to be very easy for an employer to want someone else with that skill set who is really good with people versus you because yeah even if you have that skill set but if you're not good with people it's just not going to be as great of a working environment and and employers know that and so they're going to pass on you if they if they get that vibe that you're just not as good at getting along with people the music industry just by the nature of what it is is a very very people very relationship oriented space it's not it's not as much of a just hey here's my resume here now I'm gonna go get a job kind of space it's it's all about people not leads me into the second point about being good with people which is that a lot of times people themselves are going to be what gets you your foot in the door for a lot of job opportunities with a lot of job opportunities like I just said it's not a resume culture a lot of times you need an introduction or you need someone who knows someone who knows someone to kind of create that network that gets you in to the music industry so so a lot of the art of job seeking in the music industry is just is literally that that people networking and there's a whole lot of different ways to do that whether you're just really extroverted and want to go meet everybody or whether you want to make strategic relationships on LinkedIn or just like I said Google go to industry events meet people and add value to what some professionals are doing if you can add value to to a professional and that might mean that might mean walking their dog or mowing the lawn in some weird cases but the point is is if you can do something that actually adds value to a professional versus doing something that it's just like oh hi I want to get the music industry can you help me that sounds more needy whereas if you're able to give something then that that's just how human relationships work it's very give-and-take and so that's a lot of the magic of being good with people so and then funny enough a little similar to what I just said about developing a job skill set sometimes getting good with people is also a learned skill set that takes practice but alright so if you're struggling trying to find a job in the music industry or if you're just not sure why things aren't working out for you hopefully to just keep these three tips in mind and it is going to be a lot of work but if you really focus on these three particular things and if you just really driven and you just go after this with all your heart then there's a good chance that the dream job in the music industry will open up for you alright thanks for watching if you learned something if this 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Length: 13min 19sec (799 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 28 2019