Because the music {industry} continues to seek out its footing within the wake of the devastating financial impression of the COVID-19 pandemic, a brand new useful resource has launched with the objective of aiding each employers and jobseekers in figuring out new alternatives.
Entrepreneurs Budi Voogt and David Sikorski lately unveiled MusicCareers, a music industry-specific job board platform devoted to discovering work for jobseekers.
Final 12 months noticed a bifurcation of the music enterprise in contrast to every other interval in historical past. In accordance with the BBC, dwell music revenues fell round 85% in 2020. Nevertheless, industrial music gross sales continued to develop considerably as a result of tailwinds of an 18.5% improve in streaming subscription income in 2020.
The results of such stark market shifts has left many employees feeling unfamiliar with the vastly extra distant and freelance-based workforce—and the way to navigate it.
MusicCareers was developed to assist the music {industry} join with professionals who had been omitted of labor as a result of impression of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That sentiment fueled Voogt’s drive to mitigate market confusion. Voogt, who’s the CEO of San Holo’s commemorated bitbird imprint, is aiming to cowl a broad subset of area of interest positions within the music {industry}.
“The concept for MusicCareers spawned from the belief that our {industry} wants a job web site that’s intuitive, trendy, and globally oriented—respecting all of the {industry}’s nuances,” Voogt mentioned in a press release. “In our companies, we’ve used quite a lot of options and I’ve change into satisfied that the matching of abilities with employers could be easier and extra enjoyable. We wish to change that.”
The positioning’s classes are broad and forged a large internet by way of music {industry} competencies, together with these for which work is often stuffed informally, resembling touring and music recording. Freelance and internship alternatives are free to publish on the platform, whereas customized plans can be found for enterprise companions.
“Having labored as a contract inventive within the music {industry}, I do know all too nicely the struggles of scrolling via numerous job boards looking for music-related alternatives,” added Sikorski, the platform’s Normal Supervisor. “I turned concerned in MusicCareers as a means to assist join music {industry} colleagues with jobs that truly cater to their particular pursuits, abilities, and expertise.”
Discover out extra about MusicCareers here.