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ClickZ, a resource site focused on web marketing, has added the ClickZ Job Board.
Over at Hip Hop Press:
The ClickZ Network Connects Interactive Marketing Job Seekers with Attractive Career Opportunities
G-Unit Street Team Killaz
G-Unit Records is seeking promoters, i.e., street team members judging from the fine print at the end of the video and it looks like they're building 50 Cent's social network in the process.
Here's the note via ganggeneral:
G-Unit Records is always looking for new promoters from all over the country to help represent the company. G-Unit Records to date has sold over 50 million records worldwide with the help of some of the world's best promo teams. Therefore we are always looking for the best of the best promoters.
Candidates for G-unit Promoters must be at least 17 years old, must have access to a digital camera, a computer, and an email address. If you feel you have what it takes to help take G-Unit Records to the next level, send an email to GUNITPROMOTIONS@AOL.COM, explaining all of the following:
A little bit about yourself, your age, your hometown, and why you would be the perfect candidate to represent G-Unit Records.
There may be more info at thisis50.com/profile/gunitpromotions but you've got to join the social network to get to it.
The video has some interesting street promotions but the best part is the fact that every song in the video focuses on shooting and killing. Guess that's just 50 but it's a good reminder about what you'll be promoting: Entertainment!
Bid4Vid is a "production community" for which you can currently preregister that will facilitate the offering and buying of video services.
FOLIO:Careers is a magazine industry jobs center that was recently redesigned.
Ypulse has an opening for part-time integrated media sales that can be done remotely.
Hypebot, a music industry weblog regularly featured at ProHipHop, and Skyline Music, an associated booking agency, are seeking online interns.
They also wonder, What Would You Do If You Owned Hypebot?
Nelly is holding auditions for an "All Girl" drum line to join him in a performance of Grillz during the BET Hip Hop Awards show.
Official Site:
Nelly's Drumline Auditions
Although I have a long history of saying I'm not going to post for a few days and then suddenly bursting out with multiple posts, I feel confident that ProHipHop will be in Lite mode for the next week or two.
I am still in the midst of a job search. I censored myself last night for the second time since that began, did not post a pic of Remy Ma's current mixtape cover and felt really bad about that. So that's going to affect things for the next few weeks while I see if I can get some interviews for last minute fall academic library job openings.
Since I periodically refer to this job search without much context, let me just say that the academic job search timetable is unlike anything you will encounter outside of professional sports! By that I mean it's all organized around the season, fall semester in academia and whenever the season or training camp begins for a particular sport. In both sports and academia there's a lot of long term manuevering over the year that heightens at the last minute as unfilled opportunities get filled.
Right now there are numerous openings that will start in mid to late August. Typically these are positions that appeared to be filled but the applicant had multiple offers and took a different one. Since I didn't start my search till late Spring, that's a lot of what I'm working with at present.
However, if that doesn't work out, in September I'll start seeing ads for both Spring and Fall of 2008. That's right, come September of 2007 I'll start applying for jobs that begin almost a full year later!
This actually works if you're in academia, either as a student or employee, but is exceptionally strange to manage if you're not in academia. Add in hip hop blogging at a time when hip hop is up for quite a bit of criticism and the disjuncture can be a bit difficult to navigate at times.
So I need to lighten up at ProHipHop and focus on this final round of the current year and also on some writing opportunities that I'll discuss in a follow up post cause one is something that is open to almost anybody.
Send your boy good thoughts. I'm only applying for jobs that I really want that are also a good fit so it's a short list at the moment. But it's nice to know I won't be second guessing my decisions if I get a job offer this go round.
Updated Version of Diddy's Video Explanation
Yes, Diddy is looking for a personal assistant and you can apply via uploading a video at YouTube, 2 to 3 minutes long, presenting why you are the worker bee for the job.
Interestingly enough, Diddy says he really is looking for professionals and that this isn't exactly a contest, though it's staged like one. He has a need and he turns it into an opportunity to create content. Diddy is so with the times.
On the down side, Diddy clarifies the dynamic by stating that this is the job for you if "you would like me to personally yell at you on a daily basis."
Yeah, it's a truthful joke and the sad thing is, that really will be part of the draw for many folks. The desire for high level obedience to high level authority is one of the deep sicknesses of mankind. But at least his upfront nature makes it a consensual relationship of sorts.
Sounds like a great job!
Even better than being an Editorial Gerbil.
T.POPPS - DIDDY'S PERSONAL ASSISTANT
Hey, I thought this would be a real hazing and it became a good time with Diddy. Maybe I should audition. It looks like fun!
The video directs you to youtube.com/group/diddyassistant but it appears to be youtube.com/group/diddysassistant for video uploads and badboyonline.com for resumes.
So go work on your video, Mr. or Ms. "I look good and can move the world while paying attention to details and being yelled at by Diddy, the greatest human I have ever hoped to serve."
Update:
It looks like it is youtube.com/group/diddysassistant after all.
The above video is also updated and now includes the following mailing address:
att: Marilyn Van Alstyne
Human Resources
Bad Boy Entertainment
1710 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
Good luck!
New Video Update:
Diddy Assistant Update
I'm all for off-the-cuff approaches but this is some haphazard, "figure it out as you go" stuff right here.
New resume contact but you'll have to do a video for this particular job:
Marilyn Van Alstin
resumes@badboy.com
212-381-1561
If you wonder how the fine folks at celebrity gossip blog Jossip view themselves, just check their job opening for a full-time editor.
"Primary Job Functions" include "understanding that you DO NOT WORK AT A CELEBRITY BLOG, but an INDUSTRY blog."
Now, before anyone thinks that these gossip industry mongers have an inflated view of their station in life and will soon be off helping Paris Hilton save the world, consider that another job function is "updating the site constantly, throughout the day, with breaking media and celebrity industry news and commentary. Think of yourself as the gerbil, and the news cycle is your wheel."
See the gerbil. Be the gerbil.
Sounds like a very special opportunity.
Via ProHipHop Jobs.
In conducting my own job search in library, information and media fields (mostly related to reference librarianship and information services) and in gathering together a few resources to make ProHipHop Jobs a bit more useful, I've come upon some really interesting positions.
Chief Librarian - Guantanamo Bay
I actually considered applying for this one but passed due to the power of rational thought.
Staff Blogger - Environmental Working Group
I got a phone interview with these guys but that's as far as it went. It was actually more of a Web 2.0 PR position focused on blogging, blogger outreach and outreach to online news sites.
Virtual Branch Manager
The digital library is becoming a place.
South Beach Diet Brand Manager
That job title just makes me smile.
Catastrophe Analyst
And what do you do? Oh, I'm a Catastrophe Analyst!
The Problogger Job Board has some blogging positions that look relelevant to ProHipHop readers:
Music bloggers are sought by both b5media and 451 Press.
b5media is also looking for a blogger to take over a somewhat established Branding and Marketing Blog.
The TBF Groups seeks a Men's Fashion Blogger.
Starked LA wants a Los Angeles Entertainment Blogger while Starked DC, now a b5media property, needs a Washington DC Travel and Culture Blogger.
They're not always so relevant and I won't be posting everything I see so check back at the Problogger Job Board for future possibilities.
Now here's a cool job:
SHREK, the new Broadway-bound musical, with music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire, and directed by Jason Moore, is looking for a Shrek and a Donkey to star on Broadway!
Produced by DreamWorks Animation and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. (principals Sam Mendes and Caro Newling), the SHREK creative team is planning a two-week reading this summer (July 23- August 3rd) in New York which will be followed by a Broadway opening in 2008!
The creative team is seeking male performers of all cultural backgrounds for these roles.
SHREK: 20s – 30s. An ogre. His imposing physical appearance disguises a warm heart. A lonely outsider with soul, strength, and wit. Values his peaceful solitary life in the swamp. Seeking actors with a powerful presence and strength with true Rock or R&B voices. Preferably a baritone.
DONKEY: 20s – 30s. A performer with a contemporary, urban edge and great humor. Joins Shrek on his journey to capture Princess Fiona. Seeking unique performers especially from slam poetry, comedy, Hip Hop worlds or clever actors with great comic skill.
Anyone, no matter how Far Far Away, can try and audition for these roles! If you or a friend think you have what it takes to play Shrek or Donkey, follow the directions below:
I Want to Be Shrek (and Donkey) on Broadway!
Seriously, these could be career making roles and a rare opportunity for such casting to be open to the general public. Hey, wouldn't it be cool if a ProHipHop reader got cast? Let's get to work on this, guys!
Mark Cuban offers an interesting marketing challenge/job offer:
This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously.
Basically, Cuban needs new ways to get people into movie theaters:
We are looking at affiliate programs. So people with lots of myspace or other social network friends could get a buck or 2 or 3 if someone goes from their myspace page directly to fandago, moviefone, movietickets.com etc and buys a ticket to a film of ours prior to its release. Get 100 friends to buy tickets to a movie, get a 100 bucks from us.
We are looking at other similar ideas.
We already do movie marketing 101. We do buzz marketing. We put up videos all over the net. We set up websites, myspace accounts for the movies and its characters, we work with movie forums, we buy ads, etc, etc, etc. If its been done before, we are doing it.
So if you want a job, and have a great idea on how to market movies in a completely different way. If your idea works for any and all kinds of movies. If it changes the dynamics and the economics of promoting movies, email it or post it. If its new and unique, i want to hear about it. If its a different way of doing the same thing you have seen before, it probably wont get you a job, but feel free to try.
So go for it. Come up with a great idea that i want to use and I will come up with a job for you to make that idea happen.
Cuban then ends the post with the catchphrase "for real", but I have to say, he's one of the few individuals at that level that I always assume is for real, whether I think he's on target or not.
Though it's not a music marketing issue, the challenges seem similar, especially for those promoting events and hustling to get folks into clubs. Hip hop promoters have tended to exploit every opportunity they can find to promote events. So looking at music events marketing might be one place to look for a new idea.
I've always found that if you look at one field closely, ideas will often carry over or inspire new ideas in other fields. That could go for taking an approach from a street marketing context and figure out how it might work in the malls [not the best example but I hope you get the idea].
So if you've had some unique thoughts, even something that hasn't been tested, you might consider brainstorming on this one for a bit and seeing if you can hook up with one of the truly unique business figures of our time.
I call dibs on the barbecue angle. In fact, I'm considering launching a marketing with barbecue research firm. Hit me up if you're down.
Sony just can't get it together. Don't they know that when you advertise for social network spammer interns, you don't make it so public? Actually, Hashim makes it sound like a better deal than it is since Sony BMG's Epic Records isn't hiring social network spammers, they're offering them unpaid internships.
Here's the ad:
INTERNS NEEDED FOR EPIC RECORDS ONLINE DEPARTMENT
This is a PART TIME Unpaid Internship
Location: Santa Monica CA
Date Posted: 1/30/2006 3:24:32 PM
Description: Do you blog, have lots of friends at your MySpace page, and love music?
Epic Records is looking for skilled, motivated interns to promote artists on social networking sites like MySpace, purevolume, Facebook & others.
Requirements: Interns must be internet savvy and be available to work at the Epic Records office in Santa Monica, CA 10-20 hours per week.
HTML & Photoshop skills are a plus, but not necessary.
This is a non-paying internship and interns must be able to receive college credit for their internship.
"Must be able to receive college credit" for their social network spamming? That's f*cked up!
I guess Epic Records just wants to do their part in adding to Sony's increasingly diverse problems.
Last month I took a look back at Sony's PSP graffiti ads that resulted in a backlash of sorts, but I still haven't gotten around to discussing the Sony rootkit debacle. Fortunately, Sony's misadventures were chronicled by Boing Boing in a 6 post (and counting?) timeline.
Listed under the Online Positions at NPR's job site is the following:
Online Supervising Music Producer
NPR.org is looking for a dynamic music producer, journalist and new-media thinker to lead the team that will turn NPR.org Music into a premier online destination for musical exploration and enjoyment. Help define the strategy and produce the musical and journalistic offerings that will translate the NPR sensibility into an online experience. This is a full-time position in Washington, DC. JOB DESCRIPTION: Develops and implements an online music strategy. Plans and creates online music events and programming. Edits and produces music-section pages. Assigns, writes and edits stories. Creates multimedia content. Supervises online music staff.
Check the site for the rest of the requirements which are pretty high. I liked this bit the best:
Demonstrated ability to imagine audacious projects and then make them real.
Official site: NPR: Jobs and Training Opportunities
Status Ain't Hood interviews "Activision's worldwide executive of music" Tim Riley about choosing music for the recently released True Crime: New York City which includes a variety of NY punk, hardcore and rap.
Riley describes how the music works:
The music will cue in certain areas, so when you're downtown you hear a little more of the punk and the rock and the hardcore, and when you're uptown it leans a little heavier on the hip-hop. And throughout the game there are record stores. . . You gain money as you play the game, and you can use this money in the record stores. Depending on what neighborhoods they're in, they sell a certain style of music.
Riley also explains why Biggie Smalls is not included:
The Notorious BIG is someone you would just assume would have to be in the game. But his camp, the people who deal with his catalogue right now, found the game too violent.
So how does one become a video game music supervisor? Tim Riley actually started in A&R at Geffen in 1991, worked his way around the biz and got into music supervision for action sports videos when the "record companies got a little bit weird, [and] people started looking at different things to do." By "a little bit weird" I assume he means much more corporate.
Here's an interesting ad from Craigslist:
Looking for a male Davy D type host for a Hip-Hop News show
Looking for a male Davy D type, this meaning, knowlegable about all facets (the industry, how the artist are giving back,investing and those who write consciously to entertain/infuence their listeners for the better as well as the Independent and Billboard Hip-Hop music charts) of the Hip-Hop community.
Peep the ad for contact info and Davey D's Hip Hop Corner for role modeling.
Thanks to Darcel at FunkyTiki: AV Media for the tip.
The Music Press Report has a feature entitled So You Want To Be a Music Journalist? by Andy Kaufmann with some practical tips for aspiring writers. A related piece by CJ Chilvers on The Art of the Query Letter is an introduction to pitching ideas to music publications. Both include good advice and link to useful resources.
While you're at it, you can participate in the Student Voice Contest cosponsored by Billboard and mtvU that offers a publishing opportunity in Billboard and at both Billboard.com and mtvU.com.
I found out about all these resources from the The Music Press Report's free newsletter.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting overview of some of the job possibilities in the music industry and the reality that a lot of folks have multiple gigs to pay the bills.
For example, Dave Weissman "works part time as a promoter for a galaxy of bands playing styles from world music to horn-based funk. He also labors at music festivals and works on his own blue-sky vision of a worldwide database of musicians who love informal jam sessions."
As Weissman puts it:
"It's a little like spinning plates . . . You have to keep a bunch of them going at once, at least in the music industry."
The Film Music Network has some really interesting job listings and professional opportunities related to music for film and television.
Indie filmmaker Tim Greene is looking for talented young folks to provide the soundtrack for his next film, a G-Rated hip hop flick.
Here's the core of the announcement:
"Hip Hop film writer, producer and director Tim Greene is now looking for talented kids ages 6 to 23 who can sing or rap for an upcoming 16 song feature film soundtrack for Tim's fourth feature film. Send your bio info and CD samples of your recording act as soon as possible to:
Soundtrack Casting
Tim Greene Films.com (east coast office)
Box 20554
Phila, Pa 19138
Absolutely no e-mails or phone calls. I get over 4 thousand e-mails a month, so if you send me an e-mail music file chances are it will not be seen for at least 3 weeks. Best to send by U.S. mail only."
Tim Greene was recently interviewed by BackStage. It's a solid one and covers his earlier film efforts, his general strategy and his plans for shooting a G-Rated hip hop picture. Perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring bit is his discussion of how he made ends meet when shooting Creepin' on a miniscule budget:
"The thing is, I didn't have any money . . . So I just looked at single-parent homes [for inspiration]. My mom raised five boys and one girl by herself, because she knew how to work coupons . . . I said, 'Let me go feed the cast,' and I'd get three-course Swanson TV dinners on sale, use my Price Club card, and they had a rebate, so I made two or three dollars on every TV dinner."
"I got over 300 tapes and a thousand DVD-R's for free. And a thousand DVD shell [cases] for free, all my Xerox copies for free, Internet free. Even the computer I got for $40 with the rebates. I got $250 back on my camera."
"When I see the guys on the corner selling the Sunday paper, toward the end of the day I [would] go buy the rest of the papers for 80 percent off, because he's trying to get rid of the papers . . . It has tons of coupons, so then I'd go buy out Rite Aid, then I'd go buy out Eckerd, then I'd go to the next store and the next store. I would just buy out everybody with all the coupons. I'd get $40 worth of food and make $8 back, and my cast [was] eating Haagen Dazs ice cream."
Now that's making every dollar (and coupon) count!
Official website: TimGreeneFilms.com
These are both a little off topic but American Idol is taking its auditions to the people with the "Idol Auditions Tour", a series of cattle calls in 50 cities that will help forestall any more wedding ring sales to fund trips to the auditions. But when will they kick off American Hip Hop Idol?
Hip hop writers don't just have to write for hip hop publications. If you're trying to widen your markets, check out this list of resources for solo writers. Of the sites mentioned, I've found WritersWeekly.com to be particularly useful. Subscribing to their weekly newsletter gets you an update of pretty much everything new on the site that week, from good advice to new markets.
If you like being humiliated in your quest for an executive position, made to do tasks that are truly irrelevant to what your job would actually be and think being on reality tv won't destroy your credibility, then you should audition for The Apprentice! If you're not already in the loop, then you've missed opportunities in NY, Boston, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. But there are 3 weekends and 12 cities to go. Do it now or YOU'RE FIRED!
Since I emphasized the snarky element of career advice for 20-somthings, it's the least I can do to link to WSJ.com's followup article, Advice to New Grads From Nearly New Grads.
If you're technically minded with a background in database administration and programming, you might find this opening for a Digital Music Data Manager at Mix and Burn of interest. The link also seems to be the one to use for all of their Job Opportunities.
Though most aren't music oriented, the Digital Media Jobs Blog from PaidContent.org will keep you in touch with a variety of opportunities, especially at a managerial or executive level.
While Suze Orman's financial advice seems pretty reasonable, if obvious (but folks need the obvious), GoodDebt.com's Jon Hansen feels that some of what she says will keep you in debt.
Film industry professional Karen Woodward shares 10 Tips for Young Professionals About the 'Real' World including my favorite:
"1. Lose the attitude. I can't tell you how annoying 20-somethings (men and women) are who, because they are young and cute and went to a good college, think that they are smarter than anyone else."
But the most telling advice I've seen of late comes from MusicBizAdvice.com in the form of Safety Tips for Female Concert Fans and Women in the Music Industry. It contains good advice for female fans and professionals. Men should read it too, in order to be reminded of the bullsh*t and abuse women have to guard against who just want to see a show or work in the biz.
If you're an up and coming writer who wants exposure and can accept unpaid work, there are lots of opportunities with online music mags, especially with indie rock oriented publications that include hip hop in their coverage. For example, Prefixmag.com recently ran an ad in Craigslist for new contributors. PopMatters also has openings. However, just because they're unpaid doesn't mean they don't expect professional quality.
In more unpaid action, you've got till May 15th to make your bid to be an S. Carter Academy intern with the New Jersey Nets. However, housing will be provided.
There's also still time to catch at least one of the Ultimate Hustler Casting Calls for Damon Dash's new surreality show and perhaps earn your opportunity to be verbally abused by the great Dame himself.
I've added a Job/Intern category so that I can post interesting announcements and also keep up with music industry employment websites as well as paid and unpaid internships that seem particularly cool.
On that note, as I posted sometime in the past, VIBE has positions for campus-based reporters who will serve as campus correspondents for 2005-06. The deadline for application is May 16th. VIBE also has a variety of internships including Online Interns, though I'm not clear if that means you can be offsite.
Though not music specific, if you're a blogger interested in getting paid, check out Blogger Jobs.
I also received some music industry job site suggestions from Duane Tyndale, a career placement advisor at Full Sail, which is a media arts college in Florida. Thanks, Duane!
MTV/Viacom's Job Hunt
BackstageJobs.com
MyMusicJob.com
ShowBizJobs.com
EntertainmentCareers.net
I'm listing these websites for informational purposes only. ProHipHop does not currently evaluate or endorse such resources beyond not linking to obviously nutty sites.
I just checked out VarietyCareers, a media and entertainment job site that's free to job seekers, but I couldn't find any listings for bloggers!
This year's valedictorian at Ballou High School in D.C. will receive a two week internship at Rush Communications and a meeting with Russell Simmons. This is an interesting idea that will affect only a handful of students positioned for valedictorian rather than an inspiration for the many students who would be interested but have no chance at valedictorian status so late in the game.
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