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✨Why You Should Hire a TV Production Employee ✨ So you’re the hiring manager of a corporate company, and you get a resume in with someone who spent the last 5, 10, 20 years of their life in TV Production. They could’ve been a Production Assistant, Coordinator, Manager, maybe even a Cam Op or Assistant Director. Here’s why you should hire them: 🏃♀️On-the-Go Learning 📝 In 2022, I worked 12 gigs. That means I had to enter a new work environment with new leaders, plans and strategies 12 times. If you’re looking at a TV Production resume and you see show after show after show listed, that means this person has had to use effective communication skills, stayed keen as a student to their environment and ADAPT over and over and over again, likely multiple times a year, working under pressure to finish short and long term projects. Event management? Wedding planning? Hotel event planner? A production employee can get it done. 🔋Fuel in this Reality 🏠 No one leaves a dream job that treats you well, but with television being notoriously unstable a lot of conversations around leaving are fueled by a desire for stability. Home prices in LA and New York are up, television work is down, and unemployment can only last so long. It’s just reality. When people who specialize in getting sh*t done are given the opportunity to work hard AND have a job that treats them well, that is STRONG fuel for an employee who specializes in finishing projects quickly and efficiently and learning on-the-go. 🎨Creativity 🧬 People go into film and television because they want to make something. They want to bring their creative ideas into the world. It’s in their DNA. Hiring a creative brings more ideas to the table, brings someone insatiable for improvement and making systems or projects better. It brings knowledge of concept, color, design, angle. In some cases it brings practice of cinematography and writing. For jobs in advertising or marketing, a production creative can be crucial from ideation to execution. 💭Final Thoughts🤔 I worked in production for five years. The skills I learned and the people I worked with have changed my role as an employee forever. From assisting to managing to running a set, production employees are some of the most detail-oriented, people-focused, effectively communicative, creative-minded people you can find in your applicant pool.

🎬 How is hiring a film production company different to hiring another service? I had some interesting comments in reply to my post yesterday on the rules for hiring a production company. 💡 Many people thought that these were no different to hiring any company. This was interesting, so I'm digging further and looking at some differences. I hope this is of help. 🚀 DM me if you would like a proven strategy and process to follow when you hire a production company. #business #marketing #videoproduction

Our current application window for Edit Assistants is now closed. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Just in the first few days, we received dozens of applications from one small listing. I'm truly amazed by the variety of talent and passion each applicant brings to the table. We all understand the TV industry is currently in disarray, and many people are navigating these challenging times with resilience and determination. It’s heartbreaking to see so many skilled and experienced professionals continue braving the troubled waters month on month. Trust me, if I could hire all of you, I would. I firmly believe that being able to offer one or two jobs is better than none. Every opportunity counts, and we’re committed to making those opportunities as impactful as possible. - To those who have applied: Thank you for sharing your experiences and aspirations with us. Your enthusiasm and dedication are truly appreciated, and I wish I could help you all out in some way, even if it’s just to grab a coffee and catch up – feel free to get back in touch some time. - For those still looking: Keep pushing forward. Your next opportunity is out there, and your talents are needed. Let’s continue to support each other and stay optimistic. We’ll navigate these turbulent times and come out stronger. #Hiring #Talent #TVIndustry #JobOpportunities #Resilience

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Most of you know me as a filmmaker, but for the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working at Picture Head, the world's largest trailer finishing company. I was brought on board to launch their first-ever Premiere finishing division. Building a global team from scratch has been an absolute blast. We crafted a new workflow and landed Amazon as a major client. If you've seen trailers for Lord of the Rings, Arcane, or Air on your TV or smartphone, that's likely our handiwork. The folks at Picture Head are truly top-notch at what they do. I've honed some new skills you wouldn't typically associate with a documentary director, like integrating a global workforce, designing a communication system for 300 employees, streamlining financial workflows, and developing a post-production pipeline that churns out hundreds of files daily. With the pipeline now running, the job is complete. It's an interesting time out there, so I'm open to many things. I'm searching for documentary work, but I also have a lot of knowledge in post-production, corporate optimization, and even launching a business. Have something in mind, I'd love to hear it. #Filmmaker #Documentary #PostProduction #CorporateOptimization #BusinessGrowth #Collaboration #NewOpportunities

Please and thank you for checking out my casting profile at Crew Resumes! Click on all 10 of my external links for research in turbo speed. Honestly, this is designed for production heads, producers, directors, new filmmakers needing to find new colleagues, college students, interns etc. There are over 420 job titles available for searching and or posting, in all media and entertainment. (1.) Chose your Platform: Animation, Audience, Music & Variety, Commercial, Documentary, Film, Gaming, Infomercial, Live Action, Live to Tape, Music Video, Podcast, Radio Reality, Short Film, Social Media, Sports Multi-Camera, Television, New Media & Web Series and YouTube. (2.) Choose your department (26 listed), and then (3.) Choose your job title. You can of course search another country as well, should you need to prep in Spain or London or India or Ireland...etc. For Actors and Crew, make it easy on us who hire to get to your offer written up and off to your agent. Or find an an agent. But definately stop making the researchers work hard, and if they can't figure out which SM page is yours because of your photo, your name, your many pages...we move on. It's Hollywood. And funded projects move in a day or two, they don't have time to waste. There's a big pool here. Show the team you are a team player. Don't be afraid to talk about the areas of production in your life. Are you an actor who is also a writer? Great! Choose that department and job title and come up in those key word searches. I have cast all media and entertainment for 37 years. I package and produce to help with distribution and funds. I teach, I raised an Autistic Man and my dog is 15 years old. I was Miss Oregon World and competed in Miss World America in the Virgin Islands. I placed and also won Miss Congeniality. I was a cheerleader. Wilhelmina broke my heart as a judge in the competition and told me to be an actor because I would never be a model. (an 18 year olds dream). Needless to say I was a pageant girl about 6 times. I have been referring people to people for work my whole life. I figured a way to do that on a bigger scale with @crewresumes Pam Bouvier The idea is to get more of a feel for the crew member or actor. Get a feeling. I built it so you can see the smart professionals who work hard and the ones who don't work so hard at it. It's brilliant really. I put the casting director eye in there and the producers needs to find, replace and hire asap. For the members, you now have one link. Your agents and managers can be in their car and say 'Go to Crew Resumes' and search your first name. One link does everything for them. Help me, Help you, Help them, which ultimately helps production, leading to more work for you. I know everyone doesn't hustle like Los Angeles or perhaps New York, and that will show. You will have a feeling in your gut in 60 seconds or less on whether the member is part of your lifestyle and tribe. Thank you. https://lnkd.in/g-QbefjA

Ever notice how some companies make the whole hiring process feel like a maze? With all those steps, waiting forever for feedback, and delays that drag on for weeks, it's enough to drive anyone up the wall, candidates and recruiters alike. But then there are companies that can snap up a new hire in just a week! From seeing their resume to offering them the job, bam, done. Hiring should be a breeze, not a headache. Let's get back to basics and make hiring simple again. It'll make life easier for all of us. And hey, who knows? You might just find your dream hire sooner than you'd expect! 💡 #audiovisual #imhiring #liveevents

No jobs till next year for the VFX, film and TV industry! Apparently... Except I'm seeing loads of studios hiring for a variety of projects. Staff celebrating new roles and new contracts, all over my feed. What you choose to believe shapes your life. (And also shapes the social media algorithim lol) Right now you can chose to believe there are jobs and you can get a contract in the next month or you can choose to believe you have to wait till 2025. I do believe the industry is unstable. This belief made me take action to create other streams of income so when these times happen I don't get stressed about survival! Once you have a stable income make sure strikes, short contracts and the instability of the industry never effect your home life in a negative way again and build those mutiple streams of income!

What has happened to all the producer jobs? I've not got any further insight, so it's a bit of an open question. Thankfully it seems like the industry is slowly ticking back to life with Talent Manager and Facebook picking up speed with the job postings, but, I've maybe seen one or two producer jobs. So what does this mean for producers like me? Do we need to take a step down and apply for AP gigs? It's not like I'll be handed a series producer job. Are teams moving forward to consist solely of APs and PDs? It leaves us floating in limbo. I get budgets are being stretched, and even more so now, but a producer on location supporting a director and focusing on editorial and story is an essential component that productions need. What does everyone think? #tvproduction #producers #tvjobs