Thursday, January 26, 2012

Don't Play By The Rules If You Want Results

By Harlan Williams


At times, four years of something is just plain sufficient. With the potentially prohibitive price of altering a significant mid-way by way of school, it should not come as a shock that a huge percentage of B.F.A. holders graduate school with no intention of pursuing their field of study.

Even a lot more numerous are the actors, dancers, painters, writers, and dramaturges who give it a shot for a few years and determine that the lifestyle merely isn't for them. If either the new grad or the burned out artist sounds like you, you are far from alone. You may possibly really feel that your buddy graduating with a degree in Psychology and starting operate in marketing and PR is in a sturdier spot than you, if you are graduating with a B.F.A. but seeking to join the white collar globe. The funny thing is, you'd be incorrect.

America's most well-known undergraduate degrees are in small business and the social sciences. Communications and biology degrees are also up there, in terms of numbers granted. What may that mean for an individual whose diploma reads "Drama" or "Creative Writing"? It implies you quickly stand out to resume readers. Somebody screening resumes for a PR assistant position sees numerous profiles from communications or advertising majors.

Highlight any relevant skills you studied in electives or learned by means of an internship, and your degree in Creative Writing implies a robust grasp of any sort of writing and proofing abilities, not just these directly related to fiction... or just these directly related to PR. Your art and your target job are irrelevant here: the key is to assume about the leg up you have over an individual with the expected significant for any given position, and to highlight it early on in your CV.

This 1 applies equally to liberal arts majors, along with fine arts majors. In enterprise and science degrees, even social sciences degrees, the emphasis is (properly) on finding out a certain set of skills and details, then applying that skill set to a profession. In arts education, the macro emphasis tends to land additional on incorporating knowledge of the world in order to broaden the scope of your art (whichever art that is).




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