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Entertainment Career Information Comes to Students & Recent
YourIndustryInsider.com
Profiles of Successful TV & Film Writers New For September
09.08.2009 – Los Angeles, CA — How does the executive assistant to a production
company owner become a writer/producer at PAST LIFE, the new primetime TV
show created by one of the voices behind FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS? How does a file
clerk become one of a screenwriters partnership writing IRON MAN sequel, THE
FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA, for Marvel Studios? Coming up this month,
YourIndustryInsider.com readers will find out.
YourIndustryInsider.com is dedicated to inspiring and educating students and recent
grads on the ins and outs of working in entertainment, with profiles of successful
industry professionals and stories of others still making their own dreams come
true. Also featured on the site is information on different positions and career paths,
reviews of resources, and other smart, fun insider advice on getting in and moving
up in the industry.
YourIndustryInsider.com was launched in 2009 by veteran entertainment industry
hiring professional, Jenny Yerrick Martin, with the goal of giving today’s students the
kind of insight that her generation lacked when it came to planning for a career in
showbiz. “I sat behind my desk for years interviewing candidates for entry-level jobs
who had no idea why they would want the job they were being considered for other
than the chance of seeing Brad Pitt in the office lobby,” she says. “Even the ones
who had a defined career goal often had no idea how to reach it. With my broad
circle of industry contacts and my years of hiring experience, I wanted to create a
place for students and recent grads to hear from industry veterans on the shortcuts,
pitfalls, pros, and cons of a particular job path and also to give them a view from the
other side of the interview desk.”
In the past few months, profile subjects have included successful film and television
producers, a celebrity personal assistant, an