MUSIC CAREERS AND JOB PLACEMENT
The most important thing to you, the student, is can we help you jump start a career in the music and recording business. We strongly believe that we can. First of all, over 72% of our graduates land a job in the music or recording industry--many of them before they even graduate. After all, it stands to reason, our mentor/apprentice music recording schools put you in front of the very people who have jobs to offer: working professionals.
Do traditional audio schools find their students paid work in the music business before or after graduation? Most of the big schools (charging 30-100k) graduate thousands upon thousands of graduates every year and when these students are finished they enter into the highly competitive music business job market looking for paid employment. These unlucky graduates quickly realize that with no REAL STUDIO EXPERIENCE they are pretty much useless to just about every recording studio in the world.
They also realize that their diploma means nothing and can
not, will
not get them hired. We don't mean to sound negative but the truth
is the truth and it must be told. Think about how hard it is these days
to get a regular job at say an insurance company or even at a local bar
or club? Well as you probably already
know, it's a 1000x harder to get a job in the music business or music
recording business! Why is that? Well there are a few reasons:First, the music business is what we call a "marquis job", that is, it's a dream job that everyone would love to have. Think about it, where do you think most people today would rather work? In a cubicle or in a recording studio? In a government office or on a stage? In their boring city or town or on the road? That said, it probably doesn't take too big an imagination to realize that a career in the music business is a career that millions of people are trying to get. What that means is, YOU ARE COMPETING WITH MORE PEOPLE FOR LESS MUSIC BUSINESS JOBS. More people because it is a dream job, less jobs because once someone lands one, they almost never give it up.
Second, the music business does NOT, we repeat DOES NOT, work like the rest of the job market. That is, when a position in the music business becomes available, employers do not hire from with-OUT, they almost always HIRE from with-IN. In other words, music business employers do not usually put an AD in the local paper or on craigslist. No, they ask their friends and
colleagues in the business (other recording engineers) if they know of any hard working, qualified candidates? If you were to talk to 10 professional audio engineers and ask them if they have ever hired an assisstant from a traditional audio school or from an AD in the paper all of them will most likely tell you the same thing: NO, I almost never ever hire from the big schools or ADS, I only hire people that I know and trust or people that come recommended from other music professionals.
So it begs the question: if all the jobs in the music
business are
awarded to people that music employers already know, how do I get to
know music professionals doing the hiring? ANSWER: YOU MUST GET YOUR
FOOT IN THE DOOR OF A REAL STUDIO and PROVE YOURSELF to be hard working
and qualified. But wait a minute you're probably saying, "I'm not
qualified yet, I have little or no studio experience !!" Of course,
you're right on the money. How does one get trained, get in the door,
and get him or herself the opportuity to prove oneself? You certainly
don't achieve this by signing up for an audio school that is charging
60 thousand dollars or more for you to sit in a classroom. No, you go
to The Recording connection Audio School where your classroom is in a
real studio and your teacher is the same guy or gal that you one day
hope will hire you. Make sense? 
NO, we do not guarantee jobs, no one can gurantee you a
job, but think
about it and then ask yourself, "With what program am I more likely to
get hired in the real world, with a program that puts me in a real,
professionally run, working studio or in a college classroom on a
college campus? Recording Connection Audio School is the school that
gives you the opportuity to be trained by working professionals. It is
the only school that also introduces you to people that might just
need, or know someone that needs, an assistant in the future. Ask yourself, in terms of training, connections, and tuition price, do other schools even compare with The Recording Connection Audio School?
We also have Job Placement Assistance that is included with your regular priced tuition. That's right we will help you to find paid work in the music business by actively showing your resume to music industry professionals.
Josquin des Pres, owner of Track Star Studios
in San Diego, is one of the many audio professionals who have chosen to
be Recording Connection mentors.
