"Once I knew that worked, I just kept doing that," he says. The HR director was so impressed she mailed Tedder the internship application. "When I told her the story, she kind of thought it was so ridiculous and funny." "She was just flabbergasted," Tedder said. He said his call had been misdirected, and he asked to be connected to the head of Universal Music Group's HR - and he was. The rep connected him with HR, where he used the same trick again. Tedder told the representative who answered the phone that he was "misdirected" and asked to be connected to HR. "I thought for sure it was going to be a robot or an answering machine," he recalls.
He found the complaint hotline number for Universal Music Group on the back of a DVD and called it on a whim. "I knew I wanted to go into film, music or TV, and I kind of obsessed over all three," Tedder tells CNBC Make It.Īs he struggled to find an internship in the music industry, he stumbled upon an unconventional strategy for contacting company HR representatives. But before he was a Grammy-winning songwriter and recording artist, Tedder was a college student hunting for an internship and trying to figure out what he wanted to do professionally.
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