Week 6: EOC Model Management Job Description

This week we were ask what job we would like once we receive our degree, for me that was easy, I want to be a professional model manager. What is a model manager? A model manager’s focus is more on managing models career than with arranging auditions. Model managers keep in close touch with model agents to ensure a shared vision for the model, but a manager stays mostly on the management end of the models career. Sometimes a model manager may set up an audition for a model, but that is not their focus. A model manager will not guarantee auditions for a model. Securing auditions is a model agent’s job. A model managers job includes finding the model “scouting” ,introduction and guidance of the model  to the model business, development of the model including the initial models portfolio or digital photos to be introduced to partner  model agents and clients, public relations companies, and helps to make a career plan and keep the model on a path toward success. “It is important that persons make ethical decisions in their personal lives, but the practice of business ethics is of important concern to hospitality mangers” (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 159. Wiley, 02/2008.

Model Management

Role Defined

In simplest terms, the job of a talent manager is to organize and advance the career of a talented individual. Clients may include actors, artists, musicians, or athletes. You are responsible for seeking job opportunities for clients and representing your clients' interests during the negotiation of contracts.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a talent manager, you perform a wide variety of tasks for many different kinds of clients. Your day-to-day activities include:

    Setting up meetings with clients or possible employers

    Assessing the talent of prospective clients

    Arranging performances or publicity events for clients

    Making travel arrangements

    Creating advertising strategies

    Handling accounting matters

    Establishing professional relationships with people and organizations

Education and Skills

If you want to be a talent manger, you will probably need a four-year degree. It may be helpful to pursue a degree in business or marketing. Because you are responsible for promoting clients, it is helpful to have knowledge of marketing strategies.

Talent managers also need an understanding of business and accounting practices, a capacity for creative thinking and confidence in communicating with others. As a talent manager, you will need to keep updated on industry trends in order to advise clients and to create effective strategies for promoting their careers.

You may also need at least a cursory knowledge of the type of art your client produces or takes part in. For example, if you represent mostly actors, it would be beneficial to know how a client might improve their craft to increase their chances of landing a lucrative role.

Salary Information and Job Outlook

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual salary for agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes was reported as $64,200 in May 2014. The employment of such agents and managers is projected to grow by nearly 10% between 2012 and 2022, reports the Bureau.

Week 4: Employee recruiting...

This week we were are ask to discuss how in hospitality organizations, physical attractiveness is unquestionably a factor used to select employees in such positions as front-of-the-house food servers and hotel front desk agents. I live in Las Vegas, also known as Sin City. Everywhere you look you see beautiful people both as employees and as tourist. Many Vegas businesses actually hire due to the way a potential candidate for a position presents themselves. “Employee recruiting and selection are the first two essential steps taken by business to identify and choose the right employees, with the right qualifications, to serve their customers." (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 100. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online). These employees are hired on as server models, or cocktail server models. They come in already knowing that is exactly what is expected. These procedures or called auditions verse interviews. "Hospitality managers at all levels and in all sizes of organizations will continually find that they must actively recruit employees. From company presidents to the lowest-skilled entry-level employee, candidate recruitment will usually be an ongoing activity." (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 104. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online).  I myself have been on a handful of these types of auditions, its tough and no it is not always fair. The appearance of employees is just another way of telling the consumers what is expected of a customer. The type of customer businesses want to attract are what they should look for in the employees they hire. When interviewing or recruiting, it is crucial to make sure the person that is applying and wants the jobs fits under the criteria of an eligible candidate. "Employee recruitment and selection efforts are so crucial to the long-term success of every hospitality business and to all of the hospitality managers who direct their operation's recruitment and selection process."  (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 104. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online).  It is very important the employees hired match the cliental that comes into their venue. If they don’t feel a certain vibe from the people working then it effects the way costumers send their money.

Week 3, Workplace Fairness

This week we were ask our view on Fairness in the Workplace. In the past, some managers felt their employees were not sophisticated enough, nor had the financial resources, to really challenge policies those employees felt were discriminatory or unfair. However thanks to some great new laws things have changed and become more modernized. The physical identity of your employees is very important to the company and securing and keeping an adequate customer base. “That is why employee recruitment and selection efforts are so critical to the long-term success of every hospitality business and to all of the hospitality managers who direct their operation’s recruitment and selection process” (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 100. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online).  I honestly have had to be in the position to reprimand an employee of my mother’s restaurant back home.  She owns and runs an upscale stake house, and one of her employees had a very inappropriate tattoo of a naked one on his forearm that my mother was not aware of. She ask me to go in as a secret shopper type of costumer and I noticed many things she was not aware of. “Employee recruiting and selection are the first two essential steps taken by businesses to identify and choose the right employees, with the right qualifications, to serve their customers” (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 100. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online). In a situation like this and in case study the hygiene or visual display of an employee, especially a server who’s arm is stretched out to lay the dinner out. When  you see a naked woman it can persuade your whole judgement on the entire experience. “Our people are our greatest asset” (Hayes, David K. Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry, 1st Edition. Pg. 100. Wiley, 02/2008. VitalSource Bookshelf Online).