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guys five tips for modeling while you're in college some of these tips are going
to answer your questions on how to get scouted and how to prioritize your
school schedule with your modeling career alright so you're a college
student and maybe you just signed a modeling contract congratulations
so here's the thing you definitely want to let your agency know what your
schedule is and be honest about it if you have a part-time job if you have
school schedule you definitely want to be honest about that and let them know
that you're still at school because this is one of the questions that an agency
usually acts a model during the interview is that they want to know what
your schedules like and if you can go to castings on auditions without any
hiccups so one major tip for a scenario like this is to put your book out dates
early and if you guys don't know what a book out dates is a book out dates is
the dazing are not available for work so if you already know what your school
schedule is you know when your exams are your midterms any of those major
assignments or papers that you have to turn in go ahead and book out those
dates with your agency most agencies now use platforms like for example my agency
uses a platform called my agency pad so I can just go in there and type in my
book out dates and in that way my agency knows hey Francis is unavailable for
work during these dates so you can do the same or if your agency doesn't have
that kind of platform you can just email them or call them shoot them a text let
them know like hey I'm not gonna be available from this date to this date
because I have exams and I need to focus on my studies so now you want to make
sure that you're putting your book out dates very early in the semester so that
way your agency knows way ahead of time that you're definitely unavailable for
castings and for work so they will stop submitting you during that week or
during those days now another thing to keep in mind is that you might have to
miss classes on some days to go to castings now this is normal so it's very
important to have almost a near perfect attendance record
because sometimes you might need your professor to understand like hey I
really want to be in class right now but I have to go do this casting or I have
to go do this or I'm gonna be a little bit late for class so having a perfect
attendance record is gonna help you build your reputation with your
professor so that way they don't downgrade you when you are a little bit
late for class because you have to run to a casting or when you had to leave
class early to go through casting they don't hold that against you so try to
have that conversation with your professor if you need to but again it
always helps to have a perfect attendance record so that way when you
do need to miss one day or two days for our casting for a job or if you do need
to leave a little bit early your professor will be more understanding and
more willing to cut your slack so to recap that have a conversation with your
agent let them know what your school schedule is put in your book out dates
very early in the semester so that way your agency knows that you're definitely
unavailable on these days for work also try to have a perfect attendance record
at school with your classes so that way your professor can't cut your select if
you do really need to miss one day or leave early or come late or whatever and
if you can try to have a conversation with your professor and let them know
hey my work schedule is really busy and I might have to miss a day or two but
I'm gonna make it up et cetera (Karlie Kloss) now my next tip is to try to study while you're
on set so a lot of times when you do fashion shows or when you do photoshoots
and things like that a lot of times you're just sitting around for hours and
hours while the show comes together or while the lighting is being set up or
they're testing they're doing test shots and or whatnot so a lot of time you're
just sitting down there idle and this is time that you guys could bring your
books with you for instance most of the time when I've done runway shows usually
they're about a full day like you're there for the whole day you're doing
hair and makeup you're trying on the clothing and doing last-minute
adjustments and then you're waiting for the actual show to start and you're
waiting for the audience to come in and fill out the seeds and then maybe there
are some speeches or other performances that happens before the actual show so
you might spend eight hours total on the fashion
show but you're actually working for maybe 30
minutes to an hour so try to bring your books with you guys and bring your
assignments if you can so that way you can stay busy while you're on set my
next tip is sort of like a general tip you definitely want to beef up your
social media accounts especially Instagram beef of your Instagram account
because this is a way that a lot of models to get it scouted and if you're
in college you definitely want to beef that up as well because this will open
up too many doors for you guys to potentially get seen by some of the top
agencies now my next tip and this will become more relevant after the pandemic
and we can return to some sort of normalcy is to try to attend as many
school events as possible especially the major ones
for instance Anok Yai who's one of the top models this year in last year she
was actually discovered by model scouts at a homecoming event so you guys
definitely try to attend the major school events because sometimes your
Scouts walking through these events trying to look for models because you
guys are at the right demographic you're at the right age to become a model and
to succeed so talent scouts definitely do pay attention and they definitely do
try to get outs to these types of events so make sure you try to get out there to
be seen and also dress fashionable that always helps now my last tip is to try
to keep a flexible schedule so if you're going to school and then you're also
working a part-time job it's gonna be very difficult for you to also balance a
modeling career but if you have a part-time job that maybe allows a little
bit of a flexibility then you can still work in the modeling career because you
would be able to call off or call in sick on the day that you have a model
booking so for example when I was in college I had a part-time job working in
retail and I was also modeling at the same time so a lot of times I had to
call off sick at my part-time job when I had a model book in so in terms of
priorities you guys should always prioritize your school because your
education lasts forever then you prioritize your modeling career
because you're gonna model for a while you can make a lot of money but you're
not gonna model forever and then your lowest priority should be your part-time
job because you're not gonna work there ever it's only temporary and modeling
provides a much more better opportunity and more exposure and you can make a lot
more money quicker than you can at your part-time job so that's how you guys
should approach it always prioritize your school and remember to take your
assignments and take your textbooks to two sets so that way you guys can study
on set and get some work done and be productive while you're waiting for the
cameras and everything to get set up and finally be honest about your schedule to
your professors in to your agency and try to have a good reputation with them
so that way they're more understanding when you cannot make a job or you can't
make it to class because you have a book in so these are some tips that should
help you guys if you guys have specific questions on how to become a model I've
made tons of videos on this channel about how to get your modeling career
started but if there's any other questions that maybe I haven't covered
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