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Author: claaaaaarinet!!!!
Date: 2011-08-20 00:48
What is the best way to deal with non-music credentials on a "music" CV? I'm thinking in particular of substantive work experience in a field other than music, and a CV such as you would submit for an academic clarinet position (i.e. professor of clarinet)? Leave it off? Create a separate category? No doubt the answer is, "It depends," but I'm just curious what others on the BBoard do.
Has anyone out there served on a search committee? What do you usually see, and what makes the best impression?
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-08-23 02:33
Put such "not directly related" experience in the "also" section at the end of your resume.
"Dr. Claaaar served as the principal strategic arms negotiator for both the Carter and Clinton administrations, obtaining significant concessions from the Iron Curtain delegations...."
Bob Phillips
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2011-08-23 17:33
Taking the inverse of the topic, I've found it useful in applying/interviewing for non-musical jobs (my real jobs) to have listed my musical activities under "miscellaneous skills". I can't say it's ever gotten my foot in the door, but it has been a conversation topic at some interviews I've had, and been helpful when my interviewers had some musical background themselves.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-08-23 19:04
Playing the clarinet is a large, complex group of skills. Learning them requires persistent work over a period of years. This is valuable. It at least used to be that the second most frequent college major of people hired by IBM (after computer science) was music performance, just for this reason. There's no such thing as "clarinet scales and arpeggios appreciation."
If you have gone through a long-term learning experience, I think it would be helpful to say so, at least in an interview, and in the CV if you can work it in without forcing -- distance running or bicycling, competitive chess or bridge, scholarly study, etc.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2011-08-24 19:28
Hi there,
I'd create a "Career Related Experience" section and a separate section for "Extracurricular...or whatever other title..." activities and experience. I'd try to include experience that might not be directly related but can be seen as activities that have helped prepare you as a candidate for the position (i.e. administrative, teaching (in subjects other than music... like tutoring in math?), etc.)
Try to keep your CV succinct, though. As you know, if you have experience listed that has less impact than your other experience, it can weaken your CV overall at first glance.
I hope this is helpful. Good luck!
Bradley
-edited to correct some of my unclear statements!
Post Edited (2011-08-24 19:31)
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