Archive | December, 2008

27 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Career Development for the New Year

Res­o­lu­tion #3 in this install­ment of my New Year career plan­ning series is: Develop myself pro­fes­sion­ally. “I resolve that I am will­ing to invest in my career because I know that it costs money to make money. I will attend indus­try con­fer­ences, work­shops and sem­i­nars to hone my tal­ent and skills. I will read some […]

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26 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Time to Update Your Career Tools

Last week I talked about you hav­ing a plan for your career. This week we’re going to get started work­ing on res­o­lu­tion #2 in this New Year career plan­ning series: you’re updat­ing your career tools. I will make sure my pro­fes­sional tools (pic­tures, resumes, bios, demo reels, films, trail­ers, scripts, busi­ness cards, web­site, 30-sec. elevator […]

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09 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Getting Started with Your New Year Career Resolutions

Last week I talked about mak­ing a list of career res­o­lu­tions in order to jump start the new year. I listed five career res­o­lu­tions that you should have on your list: (1) Have a plan for my career, (2) Update my tools, (3) Develop myself pro­fes­sion­ally, (4) Build my net­work, and (5) Get the necessary […]

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03 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

How to Play the Hollywood Networking Game

Whether you like it or not, you’re going to have to do some seri­ous power net­work­ing if you want to be suc­cess­ful in Hol­ly­wood. You can’t be on the out­side look­ing in. You have to be IN the game. You have to build your “social cap­i­tal.” You have to cre­ate and main­tain pos­i­tive rela­tion­ships through […]

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