ABC helps career development in a number of ways:

• Once First Prize Winners are chosen, press releases go out to the contestants’ local papers, announcing their award. Follow-up press releases are sent out surrounding the Winners’ Recitals, and agents, managers, publicists and critics are invited to attend.
  
  
• The day prior to the Winners' Recital, a seminar called “The Business of Music” is held. Publicists, agents and recording industry executives discuss the building blocks of a career, and help musicians understand what is required of them aside from just performing. They are given advice in terms of repertoire, career management, marketing and promotion.
  
  
• ABC also has on each competition website a feature called “Artist of the Month” in which a particular artist is asked questions about their careers, with a view towards inspiring, enlightening, and helping other artists.
  
  
• Recitals at the C. Bechstein Auditorium and other venues enhance visibility, awareness, and support for Second Prize Winners.