Career essay (professional singer and music composer)
Responsibilities
Apply elements of music theory to create musical and tonal structures, including harmonies and melodies.
Use computers and synthesizers to compose, orchestrate, and arrange music.
Determine voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required to achieve the effects desired in a musical composition.
Experiment with different sounds, and types and pieces of music, using synthesizers and computers as necessary to test and evaluate ideas.
Write changes directly into compositions, or use computer software to make changes.
Work Activities
Thinking Creatively
– Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Interacting With Computers
– Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Getting Information
– Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
– Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
– Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Academic Knowledge
Fine Arts
– Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Computers and Electronics
– Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Customer and Personal Service
– Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
English Language
– Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Communications and Media
– Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
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Body P1: Discuss your career interests(singing, have been singing for a long time when I was just a little kid) and how you arrived at those interests. (inspired by Whitney Houston when the first time heard she sings I will always love you) You should describe the insights you gained through completing various activities in MaiaLearning such as:
Interest Profiler Assessment (Artistic, social)
Learning and Productivity Assessment (have been in the high school choir for 2 years, singing in and out of school)
Personality Assessment (funny, work hard, sincerely)
Intelligence Assessment (…)
Career and College Search (
Explain why you have chosen that career cluster, career pathway, and/or career. If your interests do not match that of the assessments in MaiaLearning, then describe why you are interested in a certain career pathway or cluster.
Body P2:
Discuss the post-secondary education/training you will need to pursue this career and the course(s) you took during high school to prepare for your post-secondary education/training pathway and for your chosen career (go to community college 2 years and then transfer to university, have at least a bachelor’s degree of composing and music, Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success. Inspect construction work on site to ensure its adherence to the design plans. Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents. Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
.Please, note any stretch, honors/advanced and career and technical education courses you took and your academic performance and GPA in those courses. ( this information about academic knowledge: Fine Arts
– Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Education and Training
– Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
English Language
– Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
History and Archeology
– Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
Philosophy and Theology
– Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
GPA at least 3.0 for each course)
Discuss the steps you have taken to prepare for and apply to your top post-secondary education/training pathway choices and your plan for financing the next several years of your life. (volunteer, teaching children singing in church, go to sing and work part-time to support financing for school, do business by composing songs and, move to the state that easy to go to school (California))Finally discuss your backup plan, in case you cannot attend your top-choice post-secondary education pathway. (back up plan is to choose a second major (fashion and business)) attend the course that helps me have a basic knowledgeable about design a clothes, fashion historical, and do business…)
Body 3:
Discuss the career exploration activities you completed during high school to prepare for your career including: job shadows (singing for Vietnamese community people and charity event out of state), career and college field trips and panels, internships (singing for school assembly and retirement event in the school district), research(research college on career center and apply for scholarship) or volunteer experiences(volunteer at the library). Please note any extracurricular activities that influenced your career exploration such as school or community clubs/organizations and volunteer or paid work experiences. Explain how these activities have influenced your career interest (because these activities help me to prove my singing skill and help for the community, some charity event that I had been singing they can earn more than $20000/concert for the dominating, it helps me training my voice for singing and my communication skills…) Describe your plan for achieving the goals you have set for yourself. (Attend to college and spend time to do more community activities to get experiences, sign up for the course that supports the career path such as composting, training vocal, fine art, music history,…)Discuss challenges you may face and how you plan to overcome those challenges in pursuing and attaining your career and post-secondary education/training goals. (the tuition is expensive so I and my family need to work hard, I am a first person go to college in the family so I don’t have any experience,…)
Conclusion:
Restate your desire to pursue your career interests and post-secondary education/training goals. (become a professional singer, and Music Composers and Arrangers, get a good grade to get a scholarship and transfer to a good university) Also briefly discuss the main topics discussed in the body paragraphs.
HINTS: Type this as if you were in your English and Language Arts class. Type complete sentences with no texting words. Make sure you follow the format for completing a 5-paragraph essay and use MLA formatting and spellcheck. Peer reviews and teacher reviews are highly recommended prior to submitting.
