Professional Development: Working with an Industry Mentor I

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Working with an Industry Industry Mentor I is a colloquium-course, taught by experienced music and entertainment professionals, that provides continuing industry Industry mentorship and guidance to first-year Clive Davis students. Offered during students’ second semester in the program, it is the follow-up course to the required first-semester core class “How the Contemporary Music Business Works” and a key part of CDI’s Professional Development Industry Mentorship curriculum that starts in students’ first year and continues through their four-year matriculation in the Institute. Under the guidance of Industry Mentors, students continue building and honing their professional skill sets. Throughout the Spring semester, each student is required to develop and refine their Dossier—an online portfolio in which students evaluate their own creative and entrepreneurial progress, and faculty offer their input as well. Those student Dossiers will be reviewed and assessed at the end of the semester by faculty and invited members of the industry. Students also participate and present in an annual year end juried review that takes place in April. Working with an Industry Mentor carefully matches student with an Industry mentor, whose job it is to (1) help students workshop and update the Dossier (2) succeed in the preparation for their year-end review, and (3) receive feedback and advice from an industry professional about their career plans and creative progress. Students will be required to meet three or more times over the course of a semester with that assigned Industry Mentor. During the first of these meetings, students meet in a small group format to collectively discuss their semester-long objectives.The second meeting is one-on-one between the student and their Industry Mentor where constructive feedback is provided on the Dossier and the presentation for the year-end…