by Harry Slater
theguardian.com, Friday 11 October 2013 04.42 EDT
If you study medicine at university, chances are you’ll become a doctor. For music students, it’s less obvious what job you’ll end up with… but it could be really fulfilling. The perception that options are narrow and jobs are few for music graduates needs to change.
It’s wrongly assumed that when it comes to jobs, music students are confined to their field of study. In reality, music graduates go on to do a wide range of jobs in a variety of different industries.
Alumni surveys from the University of Nottingham show that music graduates are employed across a varied range of fields. As you might expect, a large proportion (50%) work in the creative industry, but the roles performed by graduates vary greatly.
Music grads work in publishing, editing, media production, broadcasting, and marketing. A number work with professional ensembles, but not all are performing as musicians – many work in management roles.
Less anticipated but no less common is the employment of music graduates in finance and banking, legal and consultancy.
Dr Robert Adlington, an associate professor of music at the University of Nottingham, credits these successful and varied outcomes to the highly desirable skills developed by music students during their studies.
Further reading: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/11/music-students-employability
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