Suppose this is my resume:

• I took piano lessons as a kid
• I played ‘Happy Birthday’ at my mom’s birthday party
• I won first prize at the local Kiwanis festival
• I live in Toronto, Canada
• I was a jazz student at the University of Toronto
• I write a blog
• I teach private piano lessons
• I play frequently at the local club
• I was a jazz student at Julliard
• I released an album
• My album was reviewed positively in the Toronto newspaper
• I was featured on the local jazz radio station
• I live in NYC
• I opened for Keith Jarrett at the local jazz festival
• I’m a professor at the University of Toronto
• David Braid played with me on my new record
• I have a record deal
• I have a manager
• I played at Birdland
• I have 10,000 Twitter followers
• I was reviewed positively in the NY Times
• I was nominated for a Juno
• I won a Juno
• I won the Monk competition
• Keith Jarrett played with me on my new record
• I was nominated for a Grammy
• I won a Grammy
• I have 1,000,000 Twitter followers
• I have released five albums under my own name
• All of my albums were reviewed positively in the NY Times
• Keith asked me to play on his new record
• Keith asked me to play ‘Happy Birthday’ at his birthday party
• Keith opened for me at Carnegie Hall
• I played with Miles Davis in the 50s
• I played with Miles Davis on Kind of Blue
• Miles said I was a genius

I tried to articulate an increasing range of positive association from top to bottom.

It’s fun to think about how the music community, average-Joe, and my mom would respond to each of these, without hearing my music.

At what point would you become interested in me and my music?  At what point would you consider hiring me for something?  Why?