Our Program
HOW DOES THE TRAINING
WORK?
We contract with Radio/TV Stations, Recording
Studios/Record Companies, and Film/Video
Production companies to train and mentor
aspiring talented apprentices.
Our
method is not new. It is a throwback
to the apprentice method of training
during the Renaissance period. In
the 12th century, if you wanted to be
an artist you didn't go to school, you
went to work for an artist and you were
not paid for your labor. On the contrary,
you paid for the privilege of working
for free. And people stood in line to
do it with the right master. If your
father wasn't already doing it, or your
uncle or at least a cousin, it was the
only way to enter a profession.
The inevitable employment through our apprentice program is in large part due to the fact that training is always done ONE-ON-ONE. One student apprentice, one instructor or mentor.
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A mentor is a professional in the field, for example the Program Director/Production Director of a local radio and TV station, the owner or Chief Engineer of a recording studio, or a Film Producer or Director who dreads the day when they might have to sort through the resumes of college graduates who haven't a clue what the business is really all about.
Rather than the
faceless resume, it is far more realistic
to expect that they will hire their own
private student apprentice that they have
hand-picked, groomed and taught on the
job in the real world.
CAN
I WORK THIS AROUND MY PRESENT JOB AND
SCHEDULE?
If accepted,
your training can take place during
your off-hours, evenings and weekends
and can be completed in four to nine
months. Because these apprentice programs
are self-paced and literally one-on-one,
they can accommodate any schedule.
No matter what your schedule might
be, you can fit this in. It might take
you longer to finish, but you can definitely
do it. You can't use that old excuse
that you don't have time to do what
you've always wanted to do.
The expectations are that most applicants
can manage at least once-a-week sessions
in the beginning and let that weekly
assignment session “evolve” into
the needs and requirements of the parties
involved. The nature of the “relationship” is
that it can be adjusted from once-a-week
meetings, to five times a week, to once
every month and everything in between.
It can be stopped, put on hold, sped
up, slowed down, or moved to another
city if need be.
WHAT DOES THE PLACEMENT INCLUDE?
You will receive the same text material
and homework assignments of any school,
college or university program. (The Film
and video curriculum and any pertinent
textbooks or manuals is determined by
the individual mentor). The difference
- and it's a big difference - is that
your mentor/instructor in our program
will not be a college professor or a
grad student with 30 – 60, or more,
other students vying for attention in
a classroom or lecture hall, but a working
veteran – a professional who is
currently in the field - the Program
Director, Chief Audio Engineer, Film
Producer or Director.
REALISTICALLY, WHAT KINDS OF
JOBS ARE AVAILABLE TO ME?
Be prepared to start at the bottom of
the ladder, and you may have to keep
your day job to pay the rent, at least
at first. Starting off usually begins with part-time
work, nights and weekends, the hours
no one with a lot of experience wants. But the opportunities are endless. They
are created through your talent, drive,
hard work, cooperation and your association
and one-on-one rapport with your mentor.
They are created from being there...
from just doing it... from being the
right person, at the right time with
the right contacts.
Many of our apprentices
are hired very early on in their training,
months away from formal completion of the
program. As with all aspects of life and
work, talent is usually recognized and
rewarded when you make your desires known,
but you must be given the opportunity to
display your potential and abilities in
the proper arena where it will do some
good - on site and on-the-job.
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