Tips for a Successful Job Search: Starting with the End in Mind

This session will focus on skills and strategies necessary for an outstanding undergraduate professionalism experience as well as provide practical solutions for finding and creating proactive and positive job opportunities. Topics will include:

• Getting your foot in the door with observations, practica, and apprenticeships: how to start shaping your future in the first semester of college and a discussion of what professionalism entails.
• Undergraduate research ideas and using these ideas as a means for professional development, including ideas regarding funding.
• Successful student teaching experiences, including planning, management, lesson presentation, and professionalism.
• Marketing yourself and getting a job, including portfolios, résumé writing, and interview tips.

Kim Councill joined the School of Music at The University of Utah as Director and Professor in July 2022 after serving as an Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor at Bucknell University. She has spent 28 years as a music educator and music teacher educator, in North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. For more than 15 years, she was a volunteer music teacher in local preschool and elementary classrooms, directed multiple music camps, served as president of District 8 in PMEA, and created a unique musical outreach program for children with a variety of exceptionalities. She is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching excellence and service to students, including receiving the Citation of Excellence Awardie from PMEA in April 2019.

NAfME presents this live virtual event at no charge to all as a service to the music education profession. To register, you must enter your NAfME member information or create a nonmember account. After registering, check your email for instructions. A recording of this program will be available to all registrants for one week following the live event. Members can also view archived NAfME webinars in the NAfME Academy.

The views expressed are those of the presenter; they do not necessarily reflect the views of NAfME.