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Storyboard Artist looking for next project.

Are headhunters useful in job searches in the animation industry? I know headhunters are used in more traditional industries like insurance or sales but are they helpful in the animation industry? In managerial and more importantly artistic positions. I'm job hunting like a lot of and I've been getting a lot of email for headhunter services. are they useful at all?

Ken Davis

Professional Cartoonist

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Paul, in today's animation job market, a head hunter or an agent is going to do exactly what for you? They are just another person between you and the job.....and you'll have to PAY that person regardless of getting a job or not. When well-known, award-winning artists and directors are still "looking for their next role" these days, head hunting is of diminished value, IN MY OPINION. Consider also that most gigs in animation these days seem to last only about 6 months, maybe a year. You are likely not signing on for an extended length of time, or a really big-money gig, so the "glowing references" that agents and headhunters blow up the butts of studios won't change that. Even if the job DOES offer that there seems to be no consistency in that holding up. The BEST person to tout you and your skills is..........YOU. You know what you can do, you can SHOW what you can do and do it in your best light.

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