Plan Your Engagement
with IR!
A guide to your professional journey as a student at SCA.
by Ifetayo Olutosin
You’ve just arrived at USC as an undergrad or graduate student at SCA. Here’s your game plan…
1st Year
Attend workshops and group meetings and become acclimated with IR’s programs and resources. They will help you get your resume in order.
2nd Year
The IR team believes you are ready for an internship. Update your resume, speak to someone in the office, and get help finding an internship that fits your needs and skills. If you’re in a two-year grad program, get to know Media Talent Development Manager Lisa Fox, and plan your participation in programs like First Jobs.
3rd Year
Undergrads: Internships and filmmaking/game development should be at the forefront of your priorities. This is the beginning of your preparation for graduation. Get help identifying internships that will help you progress. You should also know what Lisa Fox does. This will be important next year! Third year graduate students, do you already know Lisa Fox? You don’t? Go meet her pronto!
4th Year
In your fourth and final year of undergrad, Lisa Fox and her staff will help you prepare for life after graduation. During this ultimate year, Fox works with students as they look for internships or jobs, helps them build their contact list through LinkedIn and social media, and makes sure they have everything they need for interviews and pitches (Resume? Check! Deck? Check! Samples? Check!) These are the same resources Fox would have provided to grad students as they launched into industry jobs.
After graduating into a pandemic and being unsure of my career path, First Jobs and Lisa Fox steered me towards the amazing development team at Kinetic Content. While there, I’ve since been fortunate enough to create and co-create formats that have received deals and been shopped internationally.
Keith Herrmann ’20
BFA, Writing for Screen & Television
