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A) Prepare a resume slanted toward modeling assignments. This resume should stress your education and experience in performing and in people-related activities. It should stress skills (ballroom dancing, writing, counseling), rather than titles (dorm-leader, yearbook editor, drag- racer), and should end with three personal references who know you are interested in modeling. If possible, at least one of these people should be an artist with whom you have worked as a model. If you have worked with well-known artists, be sure to list them, even if not as references;
list types of posing you have done (painting, sculpture, photography, anatomy), as well as places which have hired you.
B) Get a business card prepared, and carry several with you wherever you go. You should send two or three with each resume; hand out two or three at each interview; tape or glue an envelope of business cards on the inside cover of your portfolio, hand a few cards out at your first session with an artist or a group, if the people seem worth your while. The card will be especially effective if it is typeset on light-colored (not white) stock, with a graphic logo. The color and logo should be different from the color and logo on other cards you may distribute, so you can identify your modeling card easily. Place on the card your name, the title "artist's model", and a phone number where you can be contacted, as a model, without embarrassment. Do not include your address, but leave room so you can write that on later, for people who may have a good reason to need it.
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