Need Arts employment? Need a Creative Job?
Most artists, performers and even producers or directors have needed income from employment while they worked and planned for their eventual career success.
Here’s a brilliant way to take advantage of what most of us do at some point which is Google yourself. You think a potential employer doesn’t do this?
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Placing a Google Adwords ad asking for a job and using the name of the person you’re trying to get attention from for your keywords almost guarantees your ad will appear in the paid ad space at the very top of the results page if that person Googles their own name! It only costs you if it works and then it costs pennies…and because there is not likely to be much competition for names it should cost very few pennies. If you wanted to cover your bases you could setup Yahoo/Bing ads too.
Sure, it’s obvious, but only if you know people in media and the arts are likely to be keeping tabs on their own social presence. The example is a copywriter, but couldn’t this work for gallery owners? production executives? music directors? We’ve all had jobs that had nothing to do with our goals…mind numbing, spirit killing work we’ve told ourselves was just to get us to where we needed to be. Maybe trying some simple ideas aimed specifically at what we want are worth trying!!!
Please add any non traditional methods you’ve used to get the attention of potential employers or those you needed to persuade in the commnets. (Keep it safe for work please. : ) )
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Production Management = Creative Success
Some pride themselves on their ability to multitask, but we really can only do one thing at a time. To manage more than that means simply breaking tasks down and accomplishing parts of tasks as we can, when we can until the entire task is complete. Human psychology tells us we can manage to keep 5-7 items or tasks in our head at any given moment. You can probably develop strategies to expand that to a hundred or more, but you’re going to start losing track and letting things slip.
My preference is to simplify things and take steps to avoid trying to do more than one thing at a time. I delegate managing and tracking the rest of the handful of tasks necessary for ongoing projects to a low tech solution…paper. I know! So old school.
When it comes to creative expression, producing work on a regular basis means time management to allow for both inspiration and production and making it practical to accomplish all the myriad tasks that might be necessary to produce multiple pieces regularly.
Managing your time and these tasks is a challenge and tends to require specific tactics depending on the materials you use and the kind of work you do.
Do you have a workable method for breaking your work down, parceling your time and tracking where your projects are at any given moment?
If you do, you know how important it is to your productivity and success. If you haven’t given it much thought it’s probably the single biggest thing you can do right now to leverage your own productivity.
How do you manage your productivity?
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