Want to Work For Me? Looking For a Writer to Join the Trey Anthony Studios Team!

 

Trey Anthony Studios is looking for a social media blogger/writer/intern. 

 

Want your writing blogs to be seen by over 3000 visitors per month! Then apply to our blogging writing team!

We are looking for a person who is all these things and more!!! 

• Extremely smart!
• Up to date on current events in the world and the entertainment industry!
•  Care passionately about womyn's issues! Especially womyn of colour.
•  A believer in sharing good news!  
•  Have the pulse on social media!
•  Innovative,  creative and have a strong sense of business and social media!
•  A great editor and possess  strong writing skills and grammar!  A damn good speller!
•  Enjoys working from home! And has their own computer and Internet access. 
• Got a good sense of humour!

Womyn of colour and first nation womyn and  members of the LGBT community are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities.  

• To keep the trey anthony blog current and up to date. Intern will  post three blogs per week on trey anthony's blog page, the truth according to trey.  Some blog posts will come directly from Ms anthony , however, the intern will also be responsible for providing weekly blogs.  These blogs will be posted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before 9am.  These blogs will consists of inspirational quotes or videos or entertainment news and gossip worthy events,  pertaining to womyn in the entertainment industry.  Blogs should be thought provoking and entertaining.  trey anthony would like the blog to be a mix of current affairs, inspirational, humor and entertaining.  A blog where people will go to check out what's going on in entertainment but also a good news blog!!!

• Intern will also be responsible for ensuring all social media presence for trey anthony and Trey Anthony Studios is current.

• Responsibilities also include monitoring and updating f/book pages and fan pages, on all Trey Anthony Studios related pages.

• Also responsible for reaching out to other bloggers to do cross blogging and increasing blog membership and encouraging traffic to our blog site. 

Please send a brief cover letter or letter of interest to safiab@treyanthonystudios.com with the subject line social media intern, and explain why you would be perfect for the job! Please outline any previous blogging or writing experience. And also provide a blog sample/writing sample of your work. Please no phone calls. Deadline to apply is 5pm August 30th 2013.

Salary:  Bloggers will be compensated for their time. Time commitment is about four- seven hours per week. Depending on how fast you blog and do research.

Hampton University Bans Cornrows and Dreads

It's not the first time we've seen an institution of some type try to place boundaries on what people can and cannot do with their hair.

Remember the post I did a few weeks ago about the flight attendant who was forced to hide his dread under a terrible wig in order to keep his job because his natural hairstyle was harming the company's image?  

http://thetruthaccordingtotrey.blogspot.ca/2012/07/would-you-hide-your-hair-to-keep-your.html

Well, this time its Hampton University.  They have created a rule for its male business students:  No dreads or cornrows.

The mandate was put in place in 2001 and only applies to a specific group of students enrolled in a leadership course within Hampton's five-year M.B.A. program.  The Dean of the Business School believes that the hairstyles will prevent students from securing corporate jobs.

Maybe he's right?? Maybe in corporate America the 'old boys network' frowns upon those hairstyles...SO WHAT!  What ever happened to freedom of choice?  

I wonder if people think that this natural hair movement is some kind of political stance as it was also viewed in the 70s?  Are people afraid of our afros, dreads and cornrows and somehow disguise it as something that 'for your own good?'

I see what the Hamptons University is trying to do: make their students employable once they leave the walls of academia, BUT banning a hairstyle is not the way to achieve that! 

The question I have is this:  Was this ban justifiable? Are cornrows and dreadlocks truly unprofessional?  How much does (or should) your hair be a factor when applying for a job? 

I would love to hear from the professional men with dread out there!

Share your thoughts and comments with me.  Join the discussion!

WANTED: Social Media Blogger! Apply Today!

Our amazing social media blogger Zakiya Toby is leaving to pursue her own wonderful ventures and we need someone as dynamic as her to fill her shoes!!!   

Trey Anthony Studios is looking for a social media blogger/writer/intern. 

 Want your writing blogs to be seen by over 3000 visitors per month! Then apply to our blogging writing team! If you have read trey anthony's blog and enjoyed it and thought I could do that, then apply!!! 

We are looking for a person who is all these things and more!!! 

• Extremely smart!
• Up to date on current events in the world and the entertainment industry!
•  Care passionately about womyn's issues! Especially womyn of colour.
•  A believer in sharing good news!  
•  Have the pulse on social media!
•  Innovative,  creative and have a strong sense of business and social media!
•  A great editor and possess  strong writing skills and grammar!  A damn good speller!
•  Enjoys working from home! And has their own computer and Internet access. 
• Got a good sense of humour!

Womyn of colour and first nation womyn and  members of the LGBT community are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities.  

To keep the trey anthony blog current and up to date.   Intern will  post three blogs posts per week on trey anthony's blog page, the truth according to trey.  Some blog posts will come directly from Ms anthony , however,  the intern will also be responsible for providing weekly blogs.  These blogs will be posted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday before 9am.  These blogs will consists of inspirational quotes or videos or entertainment news and gossip worthy events,  pertaining to womyn in the entertainment industry.  Blogs should be thought provoking and entertaining.  trey anthony would like the blog to be a mix of current affairs, inspirational, humor and entertaining.  A blog where people will go to check out what's going on in entertainment but also a good news blog!!!

Intern will also be responsible for twittering, and ensuring all social media presence for trey anthony and Trey Anthony Studios.

Responsibilities also include monitoring and updating f/book pages and fan pages, on all Trey Anthony Studios related pages.

Also responsible for reaching out to other bloggers to do cross blogging and increasing blog membership and encouraging traffic to our blog site. 

Please send a brief cover letter or letter of interest to trey@treyanthonystudios.com with the subject line social media intern, and explain why you would be perfect for the job! Please outline any previous blogging or writing experience. And also provide a blog sample/writing sample of your work. Please no phone calls. Deadline to apply 5pm August 17th 2012.

Salary:  Bloggers will be compensated for their time and salary will be negotiated. Time commitment is about four- seven hours per week.  Depending on how fast you blog and do research.

Would You Hide Your Hair To Keep Your Job?

Would you hide your hair to save your job?  That's a decision that a French flight attendant had to make.  Aboubakar Traoré, a Frenchman of Ivorian decent, was forced to hide his hair under a terrible toupee in order to remain employed.

Traoré was hired by Air France in 1999, and has been wearing dreads for quite a few years.  It's only recently that his hair has caused a stir claiming that his harm was 'harming the company's image' and that he would have to wear a wig or risk losing his job.  (This limitation was only placed on the men, because female flight attendants are permitted to wear braids and dreads.)

As a result, a petition was started to get the company to review and update it's policies to reflect the ethnic diversity of it's employees, and demonstrators have gathered and protested Air France's policies.

It's time to WAKE UP folks!  We're living in a time were more and more people are embracing their natural hair, however, certain hairstyles are still deemed 'unprofessional' by certain companies.  It's disheartening that we sometimes still have to fight for the basics.


I would love to hear your thoughts....would you ever consider altering your image to save your job?  Has anyone ever done that before?  What were the results of your change?