13192: How NOT To Track Your Artistic Job Search

Raw transcript:

if we were anything but
artists our uh job seeking process would
be very straightforward and very
traditional uh but we we are artists so
we kind of have to provide samples and
how we track those samples is really
interesting it’s not the way normal
people track their job opportunity
search I want to talk to you about ways
to do it and ways not to do it in this
episode of the vo Heroes podcast
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so when normal people go after a job and
by normal people I’m talking about
anybody who isn’t an artist uh you know
an office worker or a customer service
rep or a tech support person or a blue
collar worker or a white collar worker
somebody who doesn’t have to audition
for something or provide uh a sample
chapter for a book or an article uh some
sort of portfolio work they don’t have
to do that
they go and they you know they hook up
with indeed.com or or Monster or who
knows what um what job seeking sites
they’re on and when they put their uh
resumés and their applications in it’s
it’s kind of expected that they will
track those things and see if they get
responses and so on with us it’s
different it has to be different and if
you’re treating it like that traditional
way of going after a job you could be
giving yourself a whole bunch of work
that you don’t need what brought this
all up
was I saw a post in one of the audiobook
narration Facebook groups that I’m a
member of where somebody says so how do
you guys track your auditions I have a
whole bunch of auditions out and uh I’m
trying to stay on top of it all and it’s
really hard to do yeah don’t don’t worry
about
it if somebody wants you and you youve
auditioned for something that they have
a role that they’re trying to fill and
you’re the right person for IT believe
me they will find you you’re the
solution to their problem you don’t need
to follow up you don’t need to stay in
touch you don’t need to Circle back you
don’t need to do any of those things and
you certainly don’t need to have some
sort of spreadsheet type maneuver where
you’re watching all of your auditions
and you’re seeing if they’ve been
responded to and you have some sort of
notion as to where they are in their
process no you could be spending that
time and should be spending that time
doing more auditions or maybe working
but not hovering like a helicopter
parent over the the offers that you’ve
put out into the universe to help
somebody solve their casting problem you
don’t need to do that in fact you
shouldn’t do that it is a recipe for
heartbreak because because now you start
looking at those numbers and you see
just how many jobs you’re not getting
and it can weigh on your head it can
weigh on your your mindset so don’t do
that that’s my admonition it’s not even
a maybe you don’t want to do that I’m
telling you please don’t do that once
you do an
audition let it go submit it move on to
something else go get a latte talk with
a friend do another
audition um work on your office hours
work on your website work on your Tech
layout whatever it is that you’re doing
other than worrying about what comes
next with that audition it’s going to be
a very easy thing for you to reacquaint
yourself with whatever was that that
caused you to audition for that project
in the first place should they get in
touch if they want a a you know a call
back or a pin or a an on hold or they
want to book you believe me you’ll
figure it out and you don’t need to stay
on top of all these things so when you
think to yourself oh I have a whole
bunch of auditions out what do I need to
do about this how do I need to manage
this the answer is you
don’t now how many of you are if you’re
watching this and you’re doing some
version of following up or tracking the
auditions that you
have uh tell me about that in the
comments below and tell me if that’s
been satisfying at all I’d love to know
the other side to this I just know that
this what I’m what I’m trying to ask you
to consider and do
works and it gives you so much more
power it gives you more options it gives
you more opportunities let’s see what
happens here give me a note in the
comment below let me know what happens
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the auditions they have out you know
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above and and send it off to them I’m
David H Lawrence 17th I thank you so
much for watching and for listening and
I will see you in the next episode of
the vo Heroes podcast
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