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The Career Rebel

Lisa Kaye, the Career Rebel, is an expert in the fields of recruitment and human resources management. Lisa is the Founder & CEO of greenlightjobs, an innovative online recruitment website targeting the placement of media and entertainment professionals within animation, gaming, film, digital, television and new media. Launched in 2002, greenlightjobs has attracted an A-list clientele such as Microsoft X-Box, G4 Media, ABC Media Networks/Disney, Time Warner, Focus 360, Blue Sky Studios, Yahoo! Media Group, and Lucas Films. The site offers employers the ability to post jobs to the site for free and to subscribe to a premium service whereby they mine the database for pre-screened professional, creative and technical talent. greenlightjobs offers job seekers the ability to post resumes, media including, online portfolios for free and offers enhanced Career Services such as resume writing, portfolio review and career guidance with an upgrade to a Premium Membership.

In addition to launching the successful online business, Lisa consults with top entertainment and media companies in the areas of Human Resources business practices. Some of her clients include, Pixar, Stone Canyon Entertainment, Teletech, Scripps Networks, g4 media, Live Nation Entertainment, House of Blues, Disney Corporate Human Resources.

Lisa gained her reputation as a seasoned Human Resource executive with 20 years of experience working for top entertainment companies including Lifetime, ABC Television, Pixar & Pure Management . Prior to launching greenlightjobs, Lisa held the post of Senior Vice President, Human Resources for E! Networks, and served as a member of the Operating Committee for over seven years. Lisa was responsible for implementing and directing key "best practices" initiatives for the company including re-engineering of its senior management team. While at E!, Lisa was responsible for assisting with the staffing and organizational development of E! Online and assisted with the strategic launch of the style network.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of “CTHRA” The Cable and telecommunications Human Resources Association, which supports and serves cable television and telecommunications industry. For CTHRA, Lisa serves as Co-Chair of the Compensation Industry Committee – which produces the leading resource for HR professional on trends in compensation. Kaye attended St. John's University and is a graduate of Fordham University, with degrees in Media Communications and Journalism all obtained while working fulltime at ABC Television Networks.

She can be reached at lkaye@greenlightjobs.com or through www.greenlightjobs.com.

Are You Under-Employed?

By Lisa Kaye | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:24 am | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
You may not be one of the millions who are knocking on doors, scouring the job boards and filling out their bi-weekly UED forms, but you may just be as lost and confused as your unemployed counterparts.  You may have a job to go to every morning, a paycheck you collect twice a week and health insurance-but, are you happy?  Just because you have a job does not mean you are any more or less fulfilled than the guy who is struggling to make ends meet.  You may think, “What have I got to complain about, I should count myself as one of the lucky ones.”  True, but are you happy?  If you are still pondering this question, welcome to the world of the “under-employed.”

Your Career: The Walking Dead

By Lisa Kaye | Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:24 am | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
Like zombies looking for their next meal, your career can start to resemble the survival of the last few humans looking to escape the clutches of a hungry mob.  Someone once said, “Just because your dead is no reason to let yourself go,” which begs the question, Does your career deserve a proper burial or perhaps a resurrection?  It’s no time to give up even when you’ve lost all hope?  You’ve got to decide if you are the type who gives in or gets going when all the world is surrounded with rotting job offers and decaying careers.  When your career resembles a scene from The Walking Dead you’ve got to make a decision-Do you stand and fight or do you succumb and become one of the walking dead?

Living In A Material World

By Lisa Kaye | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 3:12 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
We all get caught up in questioning the reasons why we choose to work.  Some of us think it’s the only way to build a career and follow your life’s dream.  Others see it as a means to pay the bills, one paycheck at a time.  And others still, have the attitude, “Well, what else would I do with my time if I didn’t work!”  Do you ever stop and wonder why we “work?”  The concept of “work” is a bi-product of the Industrial Revolution where you needed to produce in order to survive.  But today, work has taken on a whole new meaning or has it?  Have we just bought into the notion that we are living in a material world and it’s the only thing we need to focus on in order to move through this lifetime?

Career Dating

By Lisa Kaye | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:22 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Internet and Interactive
Maybe you are afraid to commit?  Maybe you like the feeling that you can test the merchandise before you buy?  Or maybe, you are like one of my friends whose theory about finding the right one goes, “It’s just like waiting for a bus, another one will always come along.”  Your career can start to resemble the dating field, a little uncertain, a little frustrating and sometimes, full of surprises. Not knowing what you are looking for in your next career move is okay.  No one said you have to get it right out of the gate.  Interviewing until you know what is right for you can resemble dating, but at least at the end of the process you won’t need to worry about who is going to pick up the tab.

Claim Your Career

By Lisa Kaye | Friday, January 6, 2012 at 10:03 am | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Internet and Interactive
Like anything you own, occupy or truly possess, you career needs to be treasured like a sacred piece of land.  You just don’t stumble into your career these days, you need to claim it, seize it and by all means retain it if you want to get ahead. Staking your career claim is like venturing into uncharted terrain looking for the last piece of unclaimed land like the Land Rush of the 1800’s.  You are competing against many other hungry and at times desperate folks who are searching for the same thing and are running against the wind to beat you to the finish line.  Your career search may have you looking over your shoulder wondering who might be picking up their pace, closing in behind you.

Ask, Believe & Receive

By Lisa Kaye | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 3:35 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
What’s on your holiday wish list this year?  Are you still looking for the right relationship, enough money in the bank, the perfect job or maybe a raise?  Are you grateful for what you have or are you still searching for a reason to get up in the morning?  Have you been deservedly naughty or particularly nice and just waiting for a bounty of beautiful gifts to descend upon you?  Whatever your lot in life you are in a unique position to hit the reset button and start over as the New Year approaches.

Pass It On

By Lisa Kaye | Monday, December 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Jobs & Recruiting
During this holiday season and sometimes throughout the year, we need to be reminded that it’s ok to give, share and spread the wealth especially in a crowded job market.  Even when it seems like there are hundreds of job seekers applying to just one job like there are holiday shoppers rushing to the stores on Black Friday to grab up the last of the sale items, we need to remind ourselves there’s room at the Inn for all of us if we just slow down and step back and be willing to help.  You may feel the need to rush to get through your “Job Seeker To Do List” wondering how many more resumes you can send out or how many job interviews you can line up before the new year. When you think you’ve done enough for yourself and you are not sure what gifts you can share, think of those who are still struggling this year who have not been as successful as you and next time you hear of a job you are not interested in or perhaps is just not right for you, remember you can easily jus, pass it on.

You Are Not Your Job!

By Lisa Kaye | Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 2:32 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
Most of us when asked, “What do you do?” feel compelled to respond to this seemingly innocuous question in creative and profound terms.  “Oh, I’m a writer” or “I am a division President,” “I am an artist, animator, director, entrepreneur” as opposed to “I work from home.”  It’s not about what you do that defines who you are as a person although I think our society and how we are programmed culturally often portrays a different image.  And so it might seem that the “larger than life” your response is to the question “What you do for a living” may further the  perception that you are as big as your title and your paycheck.

Do You Have a Plan B?

By Lisa Kaye | Monday, November 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
So maybe you’ve been focusing on your Plan A now for quite sometime without any real momentum. Or maybe you’ve been striking out but somehow you keep thinking it’s going to come together for you any day now.  Still, you stick with it, follow through and do everything you were told would help you get a job or move up in the job you currently have but, nothing.  So you might go to a career coach, figure you might need to tweak your resume or maybe splurge for a career makeover.  Trying to stay focused on your original plan, you continue to go out of your way to make it work even when nothing is coming together for you.  Do you dare ask yourself, “Is it time to initiate a Plan B?”

The Silent Treatment

By Lisa Kaye | Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:13 pm | Blog: The Career Rebel
Posted In | Blog Categories: Career Advice | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
Ring Ring, no answer.  Ping, Ping no reply. Does this sound like a tune you’ve heard over and over again?  It’s called “the silent treatment” and if you’ve ever heard the sounds of crickets when you try to reach out to a recruiter for a job you’ve been dying to interview for, you are probably not alone.  The silent treatment doesn’t mean that a recruiter does not want you.  It just means that given the amount of people banging down their door, you are let’s just say, not necessarily a priority.
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