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Originally Posted by kk@jamsync.com  Judging from the emails I get, most of them are majoring in overblown self-esteem. |
One of the students I had apply for a job here told me that at his school they spent a lot of time working on their resumes and were told to make themselves as attractive as possible to a potential employer even if everything that that said was not 100% true since much of it could not be verified anyway.
This same student told me that he could align a tape deck so I wheeled out our MTR-10 deck, got him a test tape and the necessary test equipment to do the alignment and told him to go at it. I also gave him the manual. He started sweating and then said "well I never really did the alignment of a tape deck but I watched the instructor do it"
Then he told me that he had done a complete mix down for his senior project but when questioned more he admitted that he did not do the original recording of the artist but that this was a "standard" session that everyone did and that it had been done so many times that people started keeping notes on what the instructor liked and did not like and it was available to anyone who wanted to see it. So basically the mix down was something that had been done hundreds of times before and if the student did what the instructor liked he got a passing grade.
I know recording schools need to attract students if they are going to stay in business but some of what they are telling students about the jobs prospect and how much knowledge they are imparting to them needs a reality check.
A agree that many of these audio school graduates seemed to have an over inflated opinion of what they are worth and what they know. Maybe the school teaches these "traits" or maybe it is just the idea that they have graduated from a 6 week to 2 year audio school and have been granted the title of "audio engineer" that makes them think they know more than they do.