Results from Meeting with Career Center

Last Wednesday Tam and I met with Kathy at the Career Center to see if we could get their support for our Networking/ Recital event. We were really interested in having the Career Center back us so that our emails to alumni looked more professional and official. In addition, Professor Galambos had mentioned at our last class that there is a Lawrence Scholars in Business event approaching, and we might want to see if we could attach ourselves to that event.

After delivering our pitch to Kathy, she expressed her concern with the limited amount of time to put together an event like this (and still have it be successful). We started to discuss the Lawrence Scholars in Business Entertainment Event, but it seemed like this did not fit with the mission of our idea. This event was more focused on people in the entertainment industry (TV, film, etc.) and less with musicians. She did bring up the "Are You Ready" event that will be held in Science Hall Atrium this coming Friday at 3:30-5. This is an event where Lawrence seniors can attend and get some basic information about things like buying your first car, finding an apartment, cooking for one, etc. Each of these have their own booth with information packets and a representative to ask further questions. She suggested that perhaps we could have a booth as well. This booth could be something like "How to find practice space after leaving the conservatory" or "Networking and Practice Space for Musicians". At our booth we could have a list of alumni in various cities that have agreed to be a resource for Lawrence Alums as well as spaces that we already know of. In addition, we could encourage students to fill out a short form listing their name, city they're going to, email, and instrument so that we can build our resource list. Our booth could also have our short movie, and cards with our facebook business page. Kathy also noted that we would need a representative there to answer questions, whether it's one of us, or someone else. I suggested that I would talk to my piano professor, who has a lot of experience searching for practice space in New York City.

What does everyone think about this? Tam and I decided to go for it because it seemed like a better option than the Lawrence Scholars in Business event, and more feasible than creating a networking event from scratch in 5 or less weeks.