RADIO CONNECTION GRADS AND
MENTORS
DISCUSS HOW OUR PROGRAM GOT THEM HIRED
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Here is a little thing I thought of. You should change it
instead of Career Connections to Dream Connections because you are
actually putting us in our dreams. You are kind of the fantasy island
type of thing. You take what we want the most. You out there in front
of us and we have a chance to learn at the station and I have a chance
to actually work at a station. I am not sitting in the classroom. I
don’t sit in a classroom for 6 hours a day learning which button to
push or learning how to talk or learning anything like that. I am at a
station learning hands on experience one on one with someone who know
what they are talking about, not some teacher who was a DJ when he was
19 years old. Now this guy is 62 years old, just getting ready to
retire. It’s so cool. It’s the neatest thing to actually be at the
station.
Eric Taylor- Radio Connection Student
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Another thing I liked about Career Connections when I first
started there was actually the big book that we have. I would read but
I would stutter and Chuck just always used to tell me to take my time
to pronounce things a little better. So by the time the program came
and I had to do my demo tape I knocked it out pretty good. I think it
was like in 15, 20 minutes. So I was really happy about that. Oh yeah
he told me how to do a lot of Pro Tools, how to edit. We did a lot of
air checks, a lot of practice air checks in his studio and he
taught me how to edit a lot of the Pro Tools that when you play
something and you don’t want it to be there any more, how do you erase
it and go back. It was something that I had never knew how to do. But
with Chuck he taught me like and he taught me really quick. He taught
me like in a matter of 20 minutes and I learned it. He left me there
for an hour he said do what you have to do and practice and I learned
it.
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I looked around and I said that I am not going to have job
skills. When I come out I am not going to know anybody in the business
and the internships work. When I come in here and I was studying under
Al I got to meet the program directors and I got to meet the music
directors and production people record people, everybody else involved
in this business and I made friends and contacts that way. So that as I
have done interning, I get a chance to ask these people for a job
because I already know it. And the reason that I got the job here at
the radio station and I am working at Rock 05, in fact I was working
here already. I was interning 30 hours a week, busting my butt doing
production and doing a lot of the ground work that nobody else wanted
to do just to get me that shot on radio and when I finally got hired,
it was very exciting that just like one of their other full timers go
and I got the part time position. I had a lot of fun doing it. I would
recommend the program to anybody that’s interested in getting into
radio. In fact I would tell them not to go any place else, that they
need to do something that’s involved as an internship. It’s the only
way to learn the business. Howie Eisenhower - Radio Connection Student
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Hi Frank Toohill. I am an attorney. I do a lot of juvenile
law work in the state of Connecticut but I was also interested in
getting into radio. So I looked around to see what was available. There
is a school in this area that charges about $6000 for the course. You
are at a studio but it’s not a real radio station. You are with
professors who are teachers but they are not disc jockeys. And then I
heard about the Radio Connection which is now known as Career
Connection. It was in an ad in the back of a magazine that a friend
showed me. So I called and talked with Jimmy Pettula who is the
president of Career Connection. He told me about the wonderful program
they have at Career Connection. What they do is you pay about one third
the price of the established school in this area and they place you
with a radio station. You work hands on in a real studio with a real
jock as the stations on the air. It worked real great. Frank Tuhill - Radio Connection Student
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