Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment

<p><em>Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment: Your Creative Career Guidebook</em> explores tools strategies and motivational advice from a wide range of industry professionals for navigating an artistic career in design and technology in entertainment.</p><p>This book is designed to accompany readers every step of the way in their career journey – from landing their first job after school through mid-career pivots and switching industries. It is organized into four parts: Finding Your Career Path; Tools and Strategies for Navigating Your Career Path; Curating a Creative Community as You Sustain Your Career; and Maintaining Flexibility and Finding Fulfillment in Your Career. Filled with motivational advice from mentors in the industry and creative worksheet exercises for personalized career planning self- reflection and goal setting this book demystifies a complex industry sharing crucial career-related information rarely covered in formal training programs. It explores a wide range of topics including the types of jobs available in live entertainment and TV/film education options job searching networking career marketing materials interviews unions financial empowerment and refocusing on career shifts.</p><p>This guidebook is written for designers technicians stage managers production managers crew members and creative technical artists in entertainment at all stages of their career. Covering a wide variety of entertainment from theater and television to commercials and theme parks <i>Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment </i>is a perfect companion for higher education or postsecondary educators and students exploring career and workforce readiness topics and can also be used by professionals actively working in the field.</p><p>This text also includes access to downloadable versions of the worksheets featured in the book available at www.routledge.com/9780367510442.</p>