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WHO ARE WE?
The Apprentice - Mentor Association is a dedicated group of professionals offering on-the-job, one-on-one training in Radio/TV, Recording, Video, Film, and other specialized fields throughout the U.S., Canada, the UK and Australia.
HOW WE GOT STARTED
The Apprentice - Mentor Association was conceptualized and implemented under the name The Broadcast Workshop in 1983 in Honolulu, Hawaii, by Phillip Trout, then a 45-year-old veteran broadcast training school executive.
His primary aim was to help aspiring broadcasters throughout the country overcome that old Catch 22 - "You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job".
And help them he did. By 1988, from his home in Hawaii, he had successfully placed 242 apprentices in the field of broadcasting nationwide.
Click here for more information on the history of The Apprentice-Mentor Association and the founder, Phillip Trout.
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At the same time he mentored friends/colleagues into forming start up operations of their own... offshoots that he helped nurture into independent companies. He then moved to Hollywood, California where he expanded the method to help people in all walks of life get their dream jobs in Recording Engineering, Film and Video Production, plus specialty fields and professions for vocational rehab in everything from gourmet cooking to antique furniture renovation.
The goal was to revolutionize the concept of education. Rather than the rote study for a standard certificate or diploma suitable for framing after completion of the course, and the unlikelihood of employment, the intent was to emphasize the apprentices immediately getting a foot in the door to significantly increase their chances of securing employment. He recognized that it's not only what you know, but who you know that is the unquestioned, overwhelming influencing factor in employment.
If who you know is so important, the logical next question is, "How do you get to know someone? How do you get a foot in the door and network and get contacts?" The answers, of course, are endless - everything from marrying into the family to being the dog-walker of a friend of a friend. We believe that the best possible relationship you could conceivably have with "someone of influence" is to be their private personal student. If you could somehow finagle your way into being their one-on-one student/apprentice, where you are the teacher's pet because you are the only student - that would be the best relationship of all. Arguably better than even "family".
Today, a databank of over 5,000 mentors in all areas is available and four separate organizations have grown to accommodate that network, organizations that exist through Trout's own mentoring of friends/colleagues in forming start up operations of their own... offshoots that he helped nurture into independent companies. He continues to personally "move" some candidates toward their dream because, he says, "I can't think of a more gratifying feeling than changing a person's life from drab to fulfilling."
The idea of taking people out of their dissatisfied workaday existence and putting them into some of the toughest, yet rewarding and satisfying professions in the world, is what drives this organization.
We are challenged by inspiring people to make a commitment to pursue their goals.
Write us at: contactus@getmentor.com
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