You will examine each career option, the pros and cons, the personal traits needed for success, entry level requirements, etc. Your report will answer the following questions:
You can format your Industry Report however you wish: a mock interview with yourself as a series of Q and A, a narrative with the answers woven into the text, etc. Post as a comment to this post (click on the "comments" link below).1. The name and brief description of the career option.
2. A summary of the pros and cons, personal traits necessary for success, entry-level requirements, etc.
3. An examination of whether or not this career is a good fit.
Gerardo Valadez
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1. The name and brief description of the career option.
Audio Director, responsible for the entire soundtrack, from dialogue, ambience, sound effects, music, working with the audio programmers, writing design documents and preparing preview material, testing out implementation with placeholder content, directing and liaising with composers or voice directors, doing production Foley, dialogue editing, running batch processing on huge amounts of data, as well as tweaking and integrating features into the audio and game engine directly.
2. A summary of the pros and cons, personal traits necessary for success, entry-level requirements, etc.
Pros, its an awesome way of almost putting together a video game. Your in charge of like 50% of the video game process. You get to experience a challenge of a huge success of Entertainment Gaming Industry.
Cons, you have to really be on time with everything. If something bad happens on the job, everyone looks at you and you have to remember everything on the job so it seems to be a very stressful job.
3. An examination of whether or not this career is a good fit.
This career would be a good fit if I got the hang of everything in each department and learned how everything goes. I would actually take about 5-10 years to move up towards that position just to be an Audio Director which seem like a good job but to start you off at $40k + a year, doesn't seem like much since you have to do it all.
Industry Report #4
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1. The name and brief description of the career option.
Distributor(General Manager)is a person that is knowledgeble in business and finance. A person who has audio product knowledge. A person who identify need in the market and puts together agreements with manufactuers.
2. A summary of the pros and cons, personal traits necessary for success, entry-level requirements, etc.
In this type of position, personal traits is to be a go getter. A person who see a need and gets the need met. This person needs to very sharp and knowledgeble.
Pros : good pay, constant exposure to all new products, meeting people in the industry, getting to go namm every year, try out new product.
Cons: very competitive market,in charge of more to oversee including people.
3. An examination of whether or not this career is a good fit.
I feel this career is a good fit for me because I have a passion for audio and course new product hat would love to get my hands. I would like to be able to test the product first. I able to find out what are the needs of the people. I believe that the passion that I have for music I would be able to push and strive for excellence knowing what it takes to become successful and to create a sound that is unique and to be able to market and sale because of my need as an artist creating sound.
Alfredo Zuniga
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Retail
Retailer is simple, it all about sales. It’s owning a business that offers good quality products for the right price and good services at a reasonable price as well.
It you are a successful retailer than you will bring in lots of money, a VP retailer makes $80,000 to $180,000. However this is a very competitive market. It very easy to fail, you have to compete with other retailers and their prices and services. A small retailer won't be able to compete with the big retailers because of prices.
This career wouldn’t be a good fit for me. There is a lot of risk involved. I am also not a good business man. However many people tell me I’m very good at making sales.
Chung, Erick
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Industry Report Week 4
The electronic Gaming Market
This time, I will be picking a career in Electronic Gaming Market. I decided to chose this in relation to the article we read for this week. More specifically, I will be choosing a career field in Audio Lead. Audio Lead positions make approximately $60,000 to $95,000. They are often required to work in teams and mainly do team projects setup by the company. They do meet day to day deadlines and often the project is one to three years in length. They often report to project leader and help in receiving funds for the project by providing ‘comps.’
One of the most important part of becoming a audio lead is that they must ensure that all audio assets fire correctly in the game. For example, when a player shoots two times, the audio lead must make sure that it also provides two audio fire sounds. It is a very detailed form of work as it is often in divided into: sound effects specialists, speechspecialists, and music specialists.
You can enter the audio gaming market via internship. The author, Jeff Touzeau, author of “Career In Audio” states that it is the most accurate and the best way to get into the industry. He expects the entry level intern to expect minimum wage when working but, in terms of experience, you get the whole aspect of the business.
You must have talent in computer science, programming, math, and audio. Most people have bachelor’s degree in audio gaming market. If you have good experience in audio background and sound design, you are a main attraction to their needs and that can make you move up in the industry.
Some of the traits that you should have: you must be flexible, creative, organized, must have drive, must learn how to collaborate, must be advanced in tech skills, and have basic game industry values.
The bad side is that it is passionately driven form of work and so you must be ready to work overtime with long hours, make intense deadlines, and your work environment is extremely unstructured so it is a good idea to have organizational skills. And since the gaming industry tend to have people who is investing in tens of millions of dollars on the investment of your project, you have tremendous of stress from taking over the workload and finishing it in time.
But in return, you do get a long time period off and work in a very stimulating environment. There are bonuses in large portions if the project is successful and the hours can also be flexible. Most importantly, it does have higher pay salary and job security then other industries.
I can not see myself doing this because it is not interesting to me deal with sounds that does not make sense to me like music does. I think it is more for people who enjoys the project come in completion for people to appreciate graphically and not emotionally.
Mike Valadez
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1. My industry report this week will be on retail. Retailers are salesmen who don't need explanation. They're names say it all. They just sale music equipment, from a to c to m to z, from guitars to mic's to cables to programs.
2. Thanks to the economy, there are alot more con's than pro's. The pro's include high pay, if done right and business is flowing, new sources that are gained, first to test, and exposure to products and dare I say, NAMM! The con's can be thanked to the economy for reasons like competition with other companies, making it a dog eat dog business, and small retailers don't stand a chance. Loyal customers will only buy at competitive prices still. The necessities to do this can range from experience with equipment to just knowing it and it's spec's and how the spec's work and the latest updates and maybe even the history.
3. This career is not a good fit for me, unless I get to go to NAMM! Other than that, I'd hate the competition and constant struggle of getting business and discovering the lowest prices and so on. Just not for me.
1. The retail industry is a very challenging and competitive industry. This involves one of three branches of retail. There is the manufacture, the distributor and the retailer. All of these involve in getting a product to a customer and creating a demand for your product. The success of your company in this industry depends on how well the company is able to create a product that a customer wants and will last in thte music industry.
ReplyDelete2.There are many pros and cons to this industry depending who you are. It can be very rewarding once you achieve the top jobs in managing and running the business. This is a pro because the sky is the limit to how much money can be earned. At the same time this can be a con because only the top managers make this kind of salary, while you will find yourself not making too much in the lower positions. This also means that if a business is not able to compete with its competitors it will fall apart and your job is lost. The internet has also made it that many physical stores are losing customers to its online competitors for their lower prices and convenience.
3.I think that this career would be a good fit for me for many reasons. I have always worked in retail and i love music. So if i were to put both my passion and my work together i would be able to help customers and be successful. And i would like to go to NAMM and see the new innovations that manufacturers are making.
Brandon Carlton
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1. The name and brief description of the career option.
Retail, sales. Creating a consumer experience that generates a sale and increases product awareness and satisfaction increasing revenue.
2. A summary of the pros and cons, personal traits necessary for success, entry-level requirements, etc.
You need to be a confident individual and can speak effectively with customers to identify what they are willing to purchase.Product knowledge is key. Time management and customer awareness are important as well.
cons - sometimes you don’t get any commission of your individual sales but overall you may bonus. Pay isn’t the beast but you can work your way into a management position and make a suitable salary
pros – suitable salary, benefits , customer relations. You stay up with the trends. You become a better people person. You control how much money you can make( in a commissioned based field)
3. An examination of whether or not this career is a good fit.
I love it, I like to stay with the latest trends and technology. The pay ins;t all that bad and its more bout the passion you have about a product that makes retail a breeze and helping others in a way that they feel important. Your performance is a reflection on the life of the company!