Ny headhunters?
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- Audria
any recommendations?
- boobs0
OK, what kind of job are you looking for?
- Audria0
jr designer
- boobs0
1) Are you currently working?
2) Have you contacted any agents about representing you as an illustrator?
3) Do you want permanent or temporary?
4) Are you in New York now, or are you planning to visit, or do you want to apply from a distance?
- Audria0
1. yes - as an exhibition graphic designer
2. yes.. and all my current headhunters have no positions open.
3. i prefer permanent.. but temp is ok as well.
4. I live in Brooklyn.- but not represented as an illustrator.Audria
- There is definitely a potential for work as an illustrator. I would contact some of the agencies in that field.boobs
- I would also contact a lot of book publishers. Book publishers are frequently pretty small operations, andboobs
- well thats one of the reasons I want to leave my job.. i work 20+ and I dont remember my life and hobbies anymoreAudria
- getting to the art directors at them is not so hard.boobs
- youre working 20 hours/week?identity
- no more like 9am -11pm + weekendsAudria
- AHHHH - i interpreted your last message wrong - I thought you were freaking over 20 hours/weekidentity
- no I wish i worked 20 hours a week.. thats my dream.Audria
- boobs0
Yeah,
1) when you have a job, it's hard to devote time to looking for a job.
2) in this business climate, people don't have to put much energy into finding help, so headhunters are left a bit high and dry. Why pay somebody to find someone?There are jobs out there. Just through the natural coming and going of people, and promotions, and all that, there is turnover in the job market. There are openings--but people don't have to put much energy into filling them.
Here's how I would approach looking for a new job in New York, right now, if I was currently employed:
a) Tonight, make a list of the 5 places you would most like to work
b) Tomorrow, take 20 minutes (I know, during the business day, but I'm trying to keep it short) and call each of those places, and find out the name of the person who would be in charge of hiring for the sort of position you would want to work.
c) Tomorrow night, put together packages including your resume, any printed samples you might be able to part with, a CD with links to the web sites that would have samples of your work, xeroxes of reviews of any shows you have had reviewed in newspapers or magazines in nice big envelopes. Get them in the mail. Tomorrow night.
d) At your current job, and with anybody else you know around town, in the next few days, and over the weekend, ask if anybody knows of any people at any agencies. Get those names! All you want is the names.
e) Monday, call those people you got through part d. Find out the name of people you should send stuff to where they work.
f) Tuesday call the 5 people you sent stuff to in part c. Find out two things from each of those people: i) Did they get any kind of glimmer off what you sent them and ii) Do they know someone else you can call.
g) Keep sending out stuff and generating names and sending out stuffI know it's not as easy as calling a headhunter. But headhunters aren't going to have much now. So I think you're best off trying to position yourself for an opening that may not have actually opened up yet.
You can obviously draw really well. And that's going to put you in line in front of about 80% of people out there--even the ones that are employed!
Getting what you want is a matter of showing what you've got (which is good!) to people who are in a position to help you. And they don't have to have a job right this second to be able to help you. They might have a job soon.
They might not know that the Junior Designer they have now will have to move back to Kansas to take care of their sick mother next week. They may not know the person they have now will give up design for a job at the Post Office.
Don't be discouraged. Manage your time. Get your materials into the right hands.
And the wings of destiny will soon carry you away!
- doesnotexist0
I'm with a few now and they haven't found me shit yet. they offer half the pay you can get on your own and are generally super flaky.
- your sites nice.. i need to update mine.Audria
- danke schöndoesnotexist
- doesnotexist0
;-D
- akrokdesign0
best wishes, audria.