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🎢 Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. Embrace change, follow your passions, and trust in the journey ahead! Prepare for your #future. The Master’s Degree in Arts and #CulturalManagement offers you the unique #experience of an intensive #exchange between students from different countries and continents, with different cultures, languages and religions. Cultural exchange is not only an academic goal for us also an everyday reality for each of our students. Whether you are interested in the fine arts, film, performing arts, publishing or creative sectors, course content and structure as well as teaching methodologies in the Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya are based on the idea of transferability and practical application. #DrivingValuesForward #UICBarcelona

Chapter five of my general internship handbook is out for the benefit of music therapy students and interns! Details in the blog post - link here - https://lnkd.in/gThkPtkU

Sharing this nice free PDF with resources for musos! Geared towards recent music business grads, but there are some good resources here for many!

“Finding Resources as an Intern” Internship as a music therapist can be a very dichotomous experience, evoking feelings of stress, joy, loneliness, community, creativity, burnout, and so many other complex emotions. Throughout this time, one of the best coping strategies to further your education and longevity in the field is to connect with the resources available to you as a music therapy intern. However, going about this journey on top of an internship can feel daunting, so I decided to give you a head start! I have put together a living document for music therapy interns that includes resources like scholarships, podcasts, blogs, regional websites, and more. This document will be constantly updated to remain relevant and accurate. Furthermore, with this document I hope to create a space for sharing and community. During internship, it's important to fall into community. You don’t have to shoulder the burden of solving everything yourself, and you don't have to have all the answers. In that same vein, please continue to share resources and personal experiences with AMTAS, your program-mates, and other students across the region. Through collaboration we can support each other and thrive as young professionals to create a more inclusive environment. Written by Mercedes Shook, AMTAS Secretary LINK TO RESOURCE DOC: https://lnkd.in/esaev3Gr

🚀 **Breaking into the Music Industry: Your Guide to Connecting with Record Labels! 🎶** Hey, LinkedIn fam! 🌟 Are you passionate about music and dreaming of a career in the industry? Whether you're an aspiring A&R representative, marketing guru, or production wizard, navigating the world of record labels can be daunting. But fear not! Here are some actionable steps to set you on the right path: 1️⃣ **Research, Research, Research:** Start by identifying record labels that align with your musical taste and career goals. Follow them on social media, listen to their artists, and understand their brand values. Knowledge is power! 💪 2️⃣ **Network, Network, Network:** Attend music industry events, workshops, and panels. Engage with professionals on LinkedIn—don’t be shy! Send a personalized connection request mentioning a shared interest or a specific project of theirs you admire. 3️⃣ **Craft Your Elevator Pitch:** You never know when you might meet someone in the industry! Have a compelling pitch ready that highlights your skills, experiences, and what you can bring to the table—be authentic and enthusiastic! 🎤 4️⃣ **Internships and Entry-Level Positions:** Don’t underestimate the value of internships! They offer a foot in the door and invaluable experience. Keep an eye on job boards and company websites for openings. 5️⃣ **Follow Up:** After networking, send a thank-you message or a follow-up email. Express your appreciation and reiterate your interest in potential opportunities. It shows initiative and professionalism! 🔍 **Now, I want to hear from YOU!** What strategies have you used to connect with record labels? Any success stories or tips to share? Let’s create a space where we can learn from each other. Drop a comment below! 👇👇 #MusicIndustry #RecordLabels #Networking #CareerAdvice #MusicJobs #DreamBig

How I Landed My Internship at If Not For Music! --- Throughout the first few weeks of my very first internship, I feel I've done enough experience with it to start making these posts regularly! Throughout these types of posts, I'll simply post about all I feel is worth sharing about my internship, since I'm sure some of you are dying to know what I do in it. I actually found out about INFM through an email that was sent out by WCU's Communications and Media department. They send out regular emails during job/internship application season (I love them for that!), which really helped me and other people have better access to opportunities and employers in the area. INFM popped up in one of those emails. During my interview with (my current supervisor for my internship), I talked about my passion for music when I was in middle and high school (fun fact: I played violin for 8 years and did color guard for 6 years!), my desire for real-world content creation experience, and how I want other people to achieve their music dreams. I think me being in INFM's target demographic at one point was a big factor in me getting the internship. Something I didn't realize right away (and I should have) is that INFM is a newly founded organization, founded last year. So, they don't have a lot of published projects yet. I'm that someone who will kickstart those projects, and to say the least, working with a young nonprofit is certainly a unique experience! Now that I have the internship, I'm finally building on my content creation skills to the real world, and I'm real excited to see the impact of my projects. My other mentors, Jae Winter and Terri Shadle have been amazing people who have been helping me through all of this, offering feedback and input on our goals for this year. If you want to show your appreciation for their work with me and INFM, consider giving them a follow :) If you'd like to learn more about what we do here at INFM, visit the website:

The Thing I Did Before Starting My INFM Internship --- After I received the offer for my current internship at If Not For Music, I was so excited!...but I knew I had to make a good impression. For a while though, since this was my first internship, I didn't exactly know how. I asked myself, what could I do that shows that I did my research on the organization? I knew that I would have to do my share of work in terms of a potential strategy plan that we would work with. So I decided to use a strategy I was taught years ago...the Strategic Marketing Steps process. It's basically an intensive 10-step auditing process analyzing an organization's audience, and my inputs on their current marketing strategy. From my analyses, INFM's marketing team and I echoes very similar sentiments: we all want to work on building basic awareness of our brand and establish a consistency on posting social media stuff! Keep in mind, I did this process as a first impression of INFM's social media efforts before my first impression with the marketing team 😉 I learned a lot more about INFM's strategy during our first meeting, and some of that information didn't necessarily match with my marketing audit, but that's okay by me! If there's something I would say to people figuring out how to make a good impression on their first internship, I would tell them, be sure you do your research, but don't be too hard on yourself if you don't have all the answers you need right away. If you'd like to learn more about what we do here at INFM, visit our website: www.ifnotformusic.org

With #internship season coming in hot, I wanted to share a few tips and tricks that folks might find helpful as they land their next exciting opportunity: 1. Update your resume to reflect your most recent experiences both on and off campus, and double check for typos and formatting before sending it out. Done some graphic design work for a local business? Add it to your portfolio! Helped a campus organization with a social media campaign? Include it as a bullet on your resume! 2. Stop apologizing. I cannot tell you how many messages I’ve received with a “Sorry for sending!” Line in the intro. LinkedIn is a professional social network, these types of messages are what it’s for :) Do not feel the need to apologize to anyone for being proactive. 3. You may not receive a response to all of your InMail outreach. And that’s ok! Recruiters and hiring managers get hundreds of cold messages just like yours, and sometimes there are just not enough hours in the day to get back to every single one. This does not mean you are not a fit or should not apply. Just that we are very busy! 4. Pay close attention to Career Sites and postings from the official organizations/companies. Any and all information on when applications open and close will be there as organizations solidify their respective timelines. 5. Be intentional about what you are applying to. Submitting a high number of applications does not necessarily increase your chances of being seen. If a company has 100 different internship roles open, chances are that they all differ depending on the needs of that specific business or team. Think about what you’re most keen on or have been studying in your coursework, and apply to only a few roles at each organization that align with your interests and career goals. 6. Last but definitely not least - take a chance on yourself! Internships are about identifying potential, and remember that you can bring something valuable and meaningful to any team by just being you. Spotify's applications for our Global Summer Internship Program will be opening tomorrow, Thursday 2/29. Happy Interning!!

Lucas Meek, a guest on the #pursueyourpassion podcast, just shared this story via his email newsletter and its worth a read! MISTAKES HAPPEN WHEN THINGS SEEM EASY I recently lost an acoustic guitar. It was not “lost” like misplaced keys, which you eventually find. It was lost as in, I set it down and drove away, and eventually, a stranger walked off with it.   And it wasn't just any acoustic guitar. It’s the guitar that Lisa Loeb, whom I was touring with at the time, has been using for over 30 years. She recorded her hit single “Stay (I Missed You)” with the guitar. As far as I was concerned, it was irreplaceable. Sure, I could get her a new one, but I can’t replace this one.   I’m a writer, but it’s tough to put into words the shame and disappointment that washed over me when I realized what I had done. I was far more upset than Lisa. "It's just a guitar; no one died," she reassured me. True, but I had failed to ensure its safety.   So, how do I, the person who stresses the importance of using checklists so things like this never happen, allow this to happen? I failed to implement a few essential practices that would have avoided this entire experience: I should have made myself responsible for always knowing the guitar’s whereabouts. We took the guitar into the hotel every night, but there was no rhyme or reason for who took it on any night. It depended on not much more than who had their hands full when it came out of the car. But we were traveling light, so I figured it was fine.   As I describe in my book The Efficient Hustle, I should have implemented a system to confirm it was with us when we moved from one place to another. Hotel to the car, car to the venue, stage to the dressing room. Sure, it's just one item. But it’s the most important item. And one item should be easy to keep track of. I’m happy to say that this story does end well. After twenty-four of the most suspenseful, gut-wrenching hours of my entire career, someone located the guitar in Indianapolis, where I had last seen it. And I learned, once again, that even when (or perhaps, especially when) things seem easy or failproof, we must maintain diligence and implement a system to catch our inevitable mistakes. Check out - https://lnkd.in/gvQgB4-W - to learn more about Luke and The Efficient Hustle

Exciting update on my latest project! at Apna Guide I've developed an Music Player Application . This Music Player Application helps to listen to mp3 files and all song formats with a powerful equalizer. We can easily listen to music and play millions of songs. #ApnaGuide #MusicPlayerApplication #Internship Apna Guide