3 Secrets to landing your DREAM job in production are here!
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1. Audit Your Current Situation
The first step is understanding what your skill set is and where you are currently in your career path. It’s time to ask yourself some questions…
What are you good at? What skills do you possess? The key here is seeking objective third party feedback to get a firm grasp on your actual skill set.
The biggest problem I see when people seek jobs in video production is they approach an employer thinking they are good at editing (or shooting, etc.) when in reality their skills aren’t up to par.
Become self-aware and seek an appropriate position that fits your talent and skill.
For example, let’s say you want to be a video editor. Here’s what you need to do:
Sit down and take out a sheet of paper.
Search Google and write down a list of all the video production companies you’d like to contact and work for.
Create a list of 50 or more.
Take a look at their work and order them in the level of quality. The one at the bottom is the lowest level of editing quality, and the one at the top is the highest quality level.
Once in order, take your best work and match it to the level of quality you think you fall. You might be near the top around #1, or you might be near the bottom around #45 or so.
Ask a variety of unbiased sources to help you discover where you fall overall in the top 50.
You will not improve yourself or get matched with the right job if you have an unrealistic view of your skill set. Once you have this, you can begin your search for your ideal situation.
2. Create Video Content for the Job You Want
You have to create videos that are relevant to the company you want to hire you.
If you want to work for a company that primarily creates 30-second videos and commercials, you should make a variety of 30-second marketing videos and commercials.
If you want to work for a company that makes animation videos, you should make animation videos.
For beginners, this means creating free videos for companies just to get noticed. Go out and have fun creating videos until it matches the quality and skill of the company you want to work with.
This is the most challenging part of the job pursuit, but it’s the most fun and most essential part. For some, it may take just one video, or it could involve making 5, 10, 20 videos. But the key takeaway is to have video examples that match the quality needed to land a job at the video production company you desire.
After each video you make, examine the video side by side with an example of a company you are looking to work for.
3. Market Yourself on Social Platforms
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Now that you have an honest review of yourself and you have work that is relevant and ready to be shown to employers, it’s time to package yourself.
You need to look at yourself as the business, and all the video production companies as your potential clients. Your work is the product, and you are the salesperson. What you do next is going to make or break you.
Contact your list with a pitch that they should hire you.
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