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BALTIMORE — Twenty-five-year-old college graduate David Virenzi has been patiently parsing the job market, regularly visiting Craigslist and Kijiji’s jobs sections and sending out one or two resumes per week in response to postings that he feels he might possess adequate credentials to obtain.
After three weeks of no responses to his carefully worded emails, Virenzi was told by a friend that it might be a good idea to set up a LinkedIn profile page. Virenzi’s friend Carmen Walsh, who is employed as a recruiter, explained to him how the site works.
“[She] told me that it’s basically like a professional version of ,” says Virenzi.
“You can put all of your employment history on it, and you can also pick sets of skills that will go at the bottom of your profile which friends can endorse you for.”
Carefully filling in his profile and double checking for any grammatical errors or inconsistencies, Virenzi began listing his skills at the bottom of his new page.
After adding audio editing, social media, and media production to his list of skills, he wondered if his newly acquired understanding of audio mastering would be a valuable asset include as well.
“I’ve been using these mastering plugins a lot on the music I’ve been making,” says Virenzi.
“I’ve bounced a few tracks now that I would consider properly mastered…though I realize I am still learning.”
Virenzi — who completes the majority of his mastering while sitting on his couch — often uses iZotope’s Ozone 5 software to finish his tracks; software he purchased while still living off of student loans.
“I think that mastering will look good to have as a skill, just in case.”
As Virenzi finalized the skills section of his profile, he also started to type “HTML” into the open field, but the site auto-filled his entry to “HTML & CSS.”
“I guess it probably doesn’t hurt to have both HTML and CSS on there either,” said Virenzi, as he put the final touches on his new profile.
After responding to two more new job postings, Virenzi opened a track he had been working on in Ableton and applied the Ozone Ultramaximer to his mix, being careful not to push the levels into the red.
