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How I Earned My Place in the Music Business: 6 Insights For Breaking In

After a four-year journey that recently culminated with my college graduation, I write to you now as a full-time music industry professional – Senior Music & Technology Analyst for Hypebot.com, head of Business Development for Fame House LLC, and I remain an independent musician myself building a creative venture of my own. My journey has been anything but straightforward, and there were plenty of lessons I learned along the way that I feel obliged to share with both aspiring and established industry professionals.

New Jobs On The Hypebot Job Board

The Hypebot Music Industry Jobs & Internships Board is attracting a growing number of music companies with great jobs and internships. Here, includin several new listings are the highlights:

Is A Music Industry MBA Right For You?

The Henley School of Business in Reading, England has announced an MBA focused on the music industry. However, given its corporate focus and the fact that MBA's often move between industries, it is clearly not a program that would suit all with music business aspirations.

Sellaband Seeking Global A&R Scouts

Sellaband, a crowdfunding site for musicians, has had some difficult times but has remained in the business of helping artists get funding from fans. They're now launching an interesting initiative called the SellaBand Worldwide A&R Program (WARP) and are looking for individuals in numerous countries interested in such a role.

HELP WANTED: Multiple Faculty Positions At Clive Davis Institute For Recorded Music

Check out our new music industry and tech job board in the lower part of the center column. Its a constantly  updated listing of music and tech related job availabilities drawn from across the web. This week's featured job listings include multiple faculty positions at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, They are seeking industry professionals to teach undergraduate courses in any of these music business areas:

Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor: From Music Student to Entrepreneur

Ramon Ricker's book Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won't Learn At Most Music Schools seeks to fill the void in professional music programs related to not just surviving but thriving in the world beyond academia.

Many of the issues addressed are the same for musicians who don't attend music school and provides common ground in the understanding that one has to take charge of one's career and treat it as a business.

Talenthouse Connects Talent To Celebrity Artists

Talenthouse is an interesting hybrid of competitive opportunities to create work for big stars or big brands and a showcase/artist's portfolio for creative talent. The real lure here is the opportunity to do work for celebrities which one can then leverage on one's way to a career, especially if you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere or having difficult cutting through the noise in the thick of things.

Post Your Help Wanted Needs On Hypebot's Music Industry Job Board

The Hypebot Music Industry Jobs & Internships Board is back. You'll find the jobs and internships in the site's middle column as well as here. Jobs are just $29 for 30 days and featured on Hypebot and on related sites across the Simply Hired network. It's really a bargain.

Our Music Industry Jobs & Internships Board Is Back

After a number of requests and a bit of retooling, the Hypebot Music Industry Jobs & Internships Board is back. You'll find the jobs and internships in the site's middle column as well as here. Jobs are just $29 for 30 days and featured on Hypebot and on related sites across the Simply Hired network. It's really a bargain.

FEATURED JOB: The Orchard Seeks Client Ralations Manager - Today's featured job comes from The Orchard who are looking for a Client Relations Manager. More details:

The Music Intern: Five Tips for Success

(UPDATED) For those hoping to break into the music industry, the place to start is an internship. Landing one is like getting access to an exclusive club, but interns need to know that some assigned activities may not be glamorous. On Music Think Tank, Aubrey Burton posted 5 tips for intern success:

Hypebot Editor Kyle Bylin Joins Billboard

Longtime Hypebot Editor Kyle Bylin put in his last day at the blog on Friday. Bylin has taken a job as Social Charts Manager at Billboard Magazine in Los Angeles. This week, he will make the 1,850 mile from North Dakota to California. Shortly thereafter, Bylin will start his new position at Billboard. If Hypebot readers would like to meet up sometime, all inquiries on talking about the music industry over Guinness or coffee (or both) should be sent to kyle.bylin at gmail.com.

From Bruce:

ADVICE: Finding and Making the Most Out of a Music Industry Internship

This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud.

There have been a few discussions circulating the web lately about unpaid internships in the music industry being worth it or not. The fact remains that the entertainment and music sectors continue to be areas where many people are willing to work for free, so companies need not pay interns.

But speaking from personal experience, unpaid internships are only worth as much as the overall experience the intern can create from the internship.

Even Without A U.S. Launch Date, Spotify Is Hiring

Spotify hasn't completed its deals with U.S. record labels, but that hasn't stopped the music streamer from ramping up its hiring here. "Spotify is looking for rock star engineers and product people in NYC!" the company tweeted on Friday, even in the midst of an online attack that forced it to pull third party ads from the site.

Dedication – To Get a Music Biz Job You’ll Need It

Lately we’ve been talking quite a bit about how to get a job in the music industry and the realities of the current job market. Some of our readers have been kind enough to share their stories of how they started their careers in this climate and what they sacrificed to get them. Today, I wanted to share the story of Yvanna. When she was 19, she landed her first music industry job. How did she get it?

Dedication.

Music Biz Students – Don't Let The Sky Fall On You!

This week, I had the opportunity to guest lecture in a music business class. Before the event, I had no way of knowing whether I’d do terrible or spectacular. I put my notecards together and rehearsed my speech to my wall. Prior to this, I had only spoken at Next Big Nashville, but that was an interview.

Be Prepared To Intern or Die – 6 Hard-Earned Lessons From Music Business Job Hunting

Are you foolish and crazy enough to try to get a job in the music industry? Well, good.

Before you type up your resume and stow away a few boxes of Ramen, the Hypebot readers have shared six very hard-earned lessons in music business job hunting. The road ahead is going to be far more daunting that any career counselor will ever admit.

6 Hard-Earned Lessons Learned From Job Hunting:

Foolish & Crazy – Getting a Job in the Music Industry

The job market in the music industry is the most unforgiving one in the world.

If you want to get a job here, either you have connections or your work ethic is unparalleled.

And even then, you might fail.

I remember being 16 or 17 when I started to think about getting a job in the music industry. What a fool I was. I wanted to fly in jets. Discover artists. Work at a label. Mind you, this was 2005. I had no idea.

CASH Music's "Seed" Is Creating Free Digital Tools For Musicians & You Can Help

What Wordpress did for bloggers, non-profit CASH Music hopes to do for musicians. They've been creating free open source digital tools for  for several years, and now they are reaching out to artists and the industry to help complete their most ambitious project yet, Seed.

Details, A Video Intro & How You Can Contribute:

MySpace Eyes Massive Layoffs As News Corp Looks For A Buyer

MySpace is considering massive layoffs that could cut as much as 50% of the struggling social network's 1100 person workforce according to a several sources. Parent company News Corp has been pushing MySpace to make this cuts for months even as it looks for ways to dump the division unless a miracle turnaround materializes.

Hypebot Seeks Writing & Research Interns

Hypebot is seeking writing and research interns for 2011. These unpaid positions entail writing and researching articles to be published on our blogs. As well, interns are encouraged to reach out to leading music industry professionals and conduct interviews. Past interns have pursued a variety of interests from how blogs changed music criticism to why YouTube is the new demo tape for indie artists to the difficulties of breaking through the clutter for new artists. We hope that you'll have great ideas like these to write about as well. Interested? Here are a few questions you might have: