For todays guest lecture we had re-recording mixer and sound editor Dean Humphreys. Although he works within the TV and film industry, his talk was mainly focused on how to act and portray yourself in the media industry, how to further your career in it and things to avoid when trying to climb the ladder. Some of the keys things he mentioned was that despite how creative you are and your ability to work with media software and hardware, it wont determine whether you get a job outside of the university environment. You need to be able to work with people in a professional manner despite whether you agree with their choices and understand that there is no definitive right or wrong answer to everything and use this to not be stubborn.
With it being a highly professional industry, he also mentioned it is very important to show up to work well on time, usually up to 45 minutes before the shoot at the latest, dress appropriately and to always ensure that when contacting potential employers to always double check your spelling and grammar before sending an email to them.
Dean mentioned that rejection is a huge part of your career and succeeding is about how you deal with the rejection and keep on going. If you give up too easily then you wont stand a chance at finding work and the industry will have already filtered you out as a potential employee. As an aspiring music producer and musician, I found this quite motivating to a degree as I don’t always receive the response I’d hoped for from people when looking for work. If this is the case I always try to keep going and not let these rejections hold me back.

Be a team player, don’t be an arsehole….