The Second Interview: Impressing Your Potential Broadcasting School Mentor

Last week you learned How To Ace Your Broadcasting School Interview; now, prepare for the all important follow-up of meeting your potential broadcasting school mentor for the first time! Since you've already passed the qualifying interview, this initial meeting should be a breeze, but there are still a few things you should keep in mind before you go in.

Like with your initial broadcasting school interview, you should try your best not to appear too nervous. After all, your mentor was chosen to fit with you! The National Broadcaster's Training Network has an extensive screening process in place to make sure that mentors and apprentices are the absolute perfect match. You might get your first, second, or third choice, but either way you can rest assured there was a great deal of reasoning behind the pairing!

Any number of factors can affect your placement, from a mentor's availability, to their location, to their past history of hiring broadcasting school graduates for paid positions. Your mentor was chosen to fit with you and your needs and even your personality, so you can feel confident that the two of you will get along both when you first meet and throughout the duration of your apprenticeship. Still, if you get your first choice DJ as a mentor, you might be a little nervous about meeting someone you admire — that's understandable! Just try to strike a balance between professional student apprentice and fan.

Since the placement process is so involved, the initial meeting between you and your future broadcasting school mentor is really more of a getting to know each other session than a tough interview. NBTN has already ensured that the two of you are as well-matched as possible, so now's the time to really just sit down and chat! Share your goals with them, and offer a little background as to why you've decided to go into broadcasting. This will prompt them to offer some of their own background, getting the two of you friendlier and more comfortable with each other before you make the final decision to continue on as mentor and apprentice.

Ultimately, the key to making this work is simply making a good first impression so your potential broadcasting school mentor will want to continue on with you. Remember, mentors get compensated on basis of when they have an apprentice to work with, so they'll want you to like them too! With the right attitude and willingness to get along with a new person, both of you will ultimately benefit from the mentor/apprentice relationship. To learn more, visit http://www.learn-by-doing.com!