Do You Like to Pretend You're Ryan Seacrest?

Do you? Not really? Ah well...you don't have to be 5' tall and have an odd affinity for hair products in order to appreciate this upcoming event:
Jobs in the Media: Tips for Seniors, Wednesday, Nov. 18th 7pm - 9pm Dowling 745
(See instructions below for how to add your name to the wait list for this program.)

Career Services and the Communications & Media Studies department are cosponsoring this event, which will feature expert alumni from PR, marketing, advertising, and print/broadcast/online journalism careers. They will discuss their work with Tufts seniors and offer strategies for breaking into media jobs.

The CMS department works extra hard to ensure that interested students have a plethora of opportunities available to become acquainted with the communications field. Events like Jobs in the Media allow students to hear from accomplished individuals in this particular discipline who can provide valuable information about how to forge ahead on this career path.

The following insights are from some students who plan on attending Jobs in the Media. They explain just why the media is so alluring to them, what their personal experiences working in the media have been like, and what they hope to take away from this event:

"I'm interested in media because I love stories and storytelling. I see media and specifically film as a way to tell stories that people wouldn't ordinarily encounter. Hearing other peoples' stories enhances our understanding of the world and can be used to help promote social change. I've had a lot of really different experiences working in the media--everything from corporate to working out of someone's apartment. But I like coming out with a product that I'm proud of and I like communicating with people!"
- Sarah Ullman, Senior
Has interned at E! Entertainment( LA), Bona Fide Productions (LA), Joshua Seftel Productions (NYC)

"I've always been interested in media. When I was younger, I found that I was better at reading and writing than I was at science and math, and since I had always found it easy to speak in public and be in front of a crowd, I decided that I wanted to be a broadcast journalist. Today, I'm more of a print person--I've interned for a number magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine (summer 2008) and Women's Health Magazine (summer 2009). I write for a blog called CollegeCandy.com, which is basically a blog written for college women by college women and dealing with topics like health, sex and relationships, beauty, and style, and I wrote and edited for the News section of the Daily during my sophomore year. My media/editorial experiences have always served as creative outlets for me, and they've helped me improve on my writing, researching and reporting skills which are all things that I find really important (for any profession). I'm thinking about testing the waters of public relations, and at the Jobs in the Media event I hope to learn how I might be able to break into this field. I'm also interested in working for the Food Network, so I'll be asking questions about how to break into the world of television as well."
- Maddie Garber, Senior
Has interned at Women's Health Magazine (NYC), O, The Oprah Magazine (NYC), Montclair Magazine (NJ)

Due to the popularity of the Jobs in the Media event, we have reached maxium capacity. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, email Donna.Milmore@tufts.edu and include your name and class year. For all you Walter Cronkite wannabes out there, this is a great chance to hear about the media business first hand from professionals at the top of their fields. It definitely beats watching E! and trying to emulate Seacrest's career path...