Corporate Job Posting – Are we going to keep taking this?

[Gary Chvatal]

[Dan Brockett] “See told you there would be no shortage of takers on this…I have only visited DC, can you actually survive there on 50k?”

Maybe if you have an uncle you could live with 🙂

[Ken Summerall]

[Tim Kolb] “The software to do all that comes in one box from Adobe, so how can it take more than one person to do it? Wouldn’t there be two boxes?

🙂

Welcome to the ever-heralded “democratization” of our industry.
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Tim, you hit the nail on the head with this one. To someone totally ignorant of production it all looks so easy. My job description looks something like this and I have discovered that it was a result of someone that didn’t really know what they needed so that just threw it all in. It has been up to me to educate them as to what they need from me and what we need to hire out. Oft times we have to educate our employers or clients, not just get ticked off because they are ignorant.

Ken

[Dan Brockett]

Good one! 😉

I must say that in all my years of corporate video, I have never worked staff, always as a freelancer or contractor. I have worked with some good staff producers, but never with a talented editor/camera person/sound mixer who was staff. I am sure that there are some out there but usually, we are brought in because they have nobody on staff who can actually set up a C-stand, light and shoot.

We are in the days of multi-tasking though. I have not edited for about ten years, yet lately I find myself doing quite a bit of editing. And this from a producer/writer/DP already. I am learning everything I can about Motion, re-acquainting myself with Soundtrack Pro and I suppose it would behoove me to learn DVD SP finally instead of just using iDVD. Budgets are shrinking and client’s expectations are growing, not so much in quality, but in the amount of work that one person can do. They take good lighting, sound and graphics as a matter of factly, not expecting to pay much extra for it.

Dan

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[Larry Melton]

I think the interesting question is in your subject line –
“Are we going to keep taking this?”. Only ONE person has to take this, and I’ll bet that whomever does will be very thankful.

For some of us, this might look like a job that demands too much work, under too many corporate eyes, with too little support from an organization that probably doesn’t even really understand what we do.

But there are a lot of talented folks out there for whom this may be a godsend. Someone with a family who was downsized from some other corporate gig, a freelancer whose clients have cut back their budgets, a hungry young person who’s ready to move up a bit — or maybe someone who really needs medical insurance.

In the best of all worlds, three or four people might be hired for these duties. Maybe until recently, there were three or four employees who handled them….

But right now, this is reality. Are we going to keep “taking this”? You’re fortunate if you have a choice.

Larry Melton
Triangle Productions Inc

[Matthew Mcnulty]

hey i work for government and yea that is pretty much what the job reqs were for me…

come to find out people wrote the quals a certain way to thin out the losers right away… i disagree with this attitude…

either way i have had to do and learn multiple platforms, media, styles etc… i love it! job security in a weird way… helped me to “see” and provide for the client before it is too late or to far along in a project… never thought i would love flash… i do! awesome! take the job don’t look back… no whinning!

[David Kudell]

My guess is that job description was written with someone specific already in mind. They already have the person they’re going to hire and they used his/her qualifications in the job description because they technically still have to interview other folks.