How To Ace Your Broadcasting School Interview

Getting into broadcasting school isn't a completely blind process - like with any important new educational or career venture you begin, it helps a great deal if the people you're going to be associating with can get to know you first. Thus, the first step in your broadcasting school career is to set up an interview with your local National Broadcaster's Training Network representative. But don't be nervous! With the right attitude and these helpful tips, you'll find that acing your initial broadcasting school interview and advancing to the next step of an interview with your potential broadcasting school mentor is easy.

1. Know what you want. NBTN representatives are looking for what you very likely already have - passion and commitment to a broadcasting career. You probably already have an ultimate goal in mind, whether that goal is to work behind the scenes as a recording engineer or make it all the way to the top as a professional DJ at a big city radio station. When you're talking to your NBTN rep, a major part of the discussion will be about these goals and aspirations, so make sure you have concrete goals in mind before you start your broadcasting school interview.

2. Have a list ready of the stations you want to work at. It's a good idea to have at least three in mind. Chances are, NBTN will have a broadcasting school mentor ready at one of them, your second or third choice if not your first. You can even mention specific DJs you'd love to work with so your interviewer can get a good idea of the type of person you're looking to work with or emulate. Be able to articulate the type of music and radio station you're interested in working for, whether your tastes run toward the local underground hip-hop station or top forty radio.

3. Be serious. Broadcasting school isn't just a commitment for you, it's one for your potential broadcasting school mentor as well - they'll be putting in six months of time just as you will. Show that you're ready to devote the time it takes to begin a real and rewarding broadcasting career and NBTN will be ready to find a place for you in the industry you've always dreamed of joining.

4. Let you shine through. After all, a great deal of working in radio depends on having a great, memorable personality, so if you can make your interviewer like you and understand why radio listeners will like you as well, you'll have a much easier time of getting into broadcasting school.

5. Pay attention. During this interview, you'll learn more about the actual curriculum and training process, and your interviewer will answer any questions you have about broadcasting school, so don't be afraid to ask. The ultimate goal is to be sure that you want to go forward in the registration process for broadcasting school, and that your interviewer feels, based on what you've said, that you're ready. This is the time to make sure this is what you really want to do!

6. Sound confident and sure. After all, this is the voice you want to have heard on the radio, so why not impress the NBTN rep with your strong, steady speaking voice right away? Just be careful you don't get overeager and yell at them.

Feel like you're ready? Visit www.learn-by-doing.com now and get started on your road to broadcasting school!