If you’re entering an established industry as a new person and looking at where you will get the most traction, it is wise to be strategic about it. It’s is traction that leads to progress that leads to the coveted freelance gig or the hot club’s stage or the entry level position with serious growth [...]
I’m the career version of the woman who meets someone great who is single and immediately starts thinking about people she knows who would be a good match for them. No, I won’t help you find your one true love, but I get a charge out of helping great people find great jobs. I am [...]
I don’t know about where you live, but here in L.A. people are always talking about getting movies made. Outside the studio gates, though, many people are unclear about the process by which a movie is produced and released. It’s time to shed some light on the mysterious process. Picture a tiny zygote movie idea [...]
In an article about Fourth Wall Studios last April, the Los Angeles times wrote that they are ”trying to create a new form of interactive programming that fits the era of apps, friends lists and watching two or three screens at the same time.” Today’s profile subject has been working on that objective for much of her [...]
The following post was sent out to the Actor’s Fund participants as part of their ”Jobs Bulletin” last month, but I think it’s an important accompaniment to this post I did not long after the event referenced and that readers here – actors and others pursuing “dream jobs” – would get a lot of value from it. Please feel [...]
It’s an age-old story. You’ve graduated from college and moved to a new city, ready to start your professional life. You’re short on cash, anxious, a stranger in a strange town. Of course, you’ve read all the networking advice. You know what you are supposed to do. But how are you supposed to meet successful [...]
Today’s profile subject has worked at one company his whole career thus far. He got hired right out of school for the prestigious talent agency mailroom trainee program at United Talent and spent two weeks in it before landing on a desk. In his duel role as an agent and a business affairs executive, he’s now [...]
Today we have a guest post from Clare Gillmore, the Program Manager of Boston University in Los Angeles, who oversees internship placements for about 200 students a year seeking an intro to the LA experience. With a background in TV production, marketing, and non-profit management, Clare greatly values relationships – both online and off – and [...]
Recent grad (and recurrent YII guest poster) Liz Breen reflects on a parent’s long-ago visit to a psychic and what it means for her prospects of landing a staff writing gig on a hit network sitcom. When I was a little girl no older than 8-years-old, my father went to a psychic. He asked her [...]
I recently did the keynote talk, “In Pursuit of Careers & Education,” at the joint SAG-Aftra/Actors Fund/SAG Foundation/Career Transitions for Dancers “Education Fest.” (That’s me being interviewed by SAG-Aftra Executive Director, Los Angeles, Ilyanne Morden Kichaven.) The objective of my talk was to convey the importance of seeking continuing education and other training in order [...]
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