Creative Careers
Pearson (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-13-700471-3 (ISBN)
Description
Creative Careers is an engaging, user-friendly guide to the business side of the arts that provides creative students with the knowledge and skills to find a fulfilling, challenging, and successful career that incorporates their distinctive strengths. While many students of the arts are energetic, innovative, pioneering, and ambitious, many are not sure how to translate their imaginative talents into a successful living. This groundbreaking first edition text offers both resources and reassurances to those who wish to bolster their artistic skills with business skills to achieve on a financial level, an intellectual level, and, most importantly, a creative level.
The only text of its kind designed specifically for students of the arts, Creative Careers emphasizes the importance of learning in creative classes and helps students see the advantages of involvement in lifelong learning. While the text delves into the basics of career management, including job hunting tips, branding, self-promotion, time management, people skills, and money management, the book also shows students how to work in a creative business environment without losing their individuality.
The only text of its kind designed specifically for students of the arts, Creative Careers emphasizes the importance of learning in creative classes and helps students see the advantages of involvement in lifelong learning. While the text delves into the basics of career management, including job hunting tips, branding, self-promotion, time management, people skills, and money management, the book also shows students how to work in a creative business environment without losing their individuality.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-13-700471-3 (9780137004713)
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Persons
Doug Vance is a professor of English at The Art Institute of California-San Diego. He has helped thousands of art students focus on the importance of communicating effectively both in writing and in speaking to promote themselves to prospective clients or employers. Vance has chaired the Student Success Committee, and run Student Success Seminars, which emphasize the importance of goal setting and strategies for right-brained students to be successful in a left-brained academic world. He has pioneered work in the concept of Strategic Learning, coauthored books and articles, served on state and national curriculum committees, and made numerous presentations for The International Reading Association and The National Council of Teachers of English.
Lee Silber is the award-winning author of 14 books including his popular Creative Person series. He is also the founder of five companies including a chain of retail stores and a training company. In his career as a creative person, Lee has held positions as a graphic artist, musician, radio talk-show host, and web designer.
Lee Silber is the award-winning author of 14 books including his popular Creative Person series. He is also the founder of five companies including a chain of retail stores and a training company. In his career as a creative person, Lee has held positions as a graphic artist, musician, radio talk-show host, and web designer.
Content
Student Introduction (You Can Do It)
Teacher Introduction (You Can Help)
Prologue (Introduce The Authors)
PART ONE: GETTING READY
1. Know Thyself: Who Are You And What Makes You Great
2. You Decide: How To Get Where You Want To Be
3. Getting Fs In Art School: Learning Is More Than Grades
PART TWO: GOING FOR IT
4. It's All About Me: Packaging Yourself
5. Selling Yourself Without Selling Out: Creative Ways To Get The Word Out
6. It's Who You Know: Finding The Right People To Further Your Career
7. It's Who You Are: How To Present Yourself In Speaking And Writing
PART THREE: MAKING IT IN THE REAL WORLD
8. Money Matters: How To Make It And Hold On To It
9. People Matter: How To Deal With All Kinds Of People
PART FOUR: KNOWING WHEN YOUyVE GOT IT MADE
10. Reality Check: Possible Pitfalls, Career Enders And How To Avoid Them
11. Life Skills 101: A Survival Guide For The Working Artist
12. Staying On Top: Making The Most Of Your Success
Teacher Introduction (You Can Help)
Prologue (Introduce The Authors)
PART ONE: GETTING READY
1. Know Thyself: Who Are You And What Makes You Great
2. You Decide: How To Get Where You Want To Be
3. Getting Fs In Art School: Learning Is More Than Grades
PART TWO: GOING FOR IT
4. It's All About Me: Packaging Yourself
5. Selling Yourself Without Selling Out: Creative Ways To Get The Word Out
6. It's Who You Know: Finding The Right People To Further Your Career
7. It's Who You Are: How To Present Yourself In Speaking And Writing
PART THREE: MAKING IT IN THE REAL WORLD
8. Money Matters: How To Make It And Hold On To It
9. People Matter: How To Deal With All Kinds Of People
PART FOUR: KNOWING WHEN YOUyVE GOT IT MADE
10. Reality Check: Possible Pitfalls, Career Enders And How To Avoid Them
11. Life Skills 101: A Survival Guide For The Working Artist
12. Staying On Top: Making The Most Of Your Success