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Chillaxin’ Your Career Search

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When you are just plain TIRED and you’ve been at this for a while, it’s okay to just chillax your search and sit this round out.

Veteran Disney Animators Receive Pink Slips

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Cartoons, Films | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, Cartoons, Films, Jobs & Recruiting
About 150 staffers at the conglomerate's filmed entertainment segment are being laid off.

FMX 2013 Program is Now Online

The preview of this year's FMX program is now online!

Need A Career Cleanse?

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One area you might want to consider purging is the emotional and physical drain on your energy and psyche caused by the stresses of work.

Rhythm & Hues Posts 200 Taiwan Job Openings

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Films, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Asia, North America | Site Categories: Business, CG, Films, Jobs & Recruiting, Places, Visual Effects
Two weeks after reports that troubled VFX studio Rhythm & Hues would be establishing operations in Taiwan, the company courts new employees for its facility in the city of Kaohsiung.

HOW TO BREAK INTO THE SCREENWRITING BUSINESS

If you are an aspiring screenwriter I have some suggestions that may help you break into the business...

Paint Your Job Picture

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How you see yourself and how others see you may mean the difference between getting a “real” job offer and one you make up inside your head.

FMX 2013 Announces Pixar Highlights, Cloud Computing and More

Posted In | Blog Categories: Special Announcements, FMX 2013 | Site Categories: Business, CG, Events, Films, Games, Jobs & Recruiting, Technology, Visual Effects
FMX to screen new Pixar short The Blue Umbrella among other key highlights.

Career Coach: Contracts that Constrict

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach | Site Categories: Business, Jobs & Recruiting
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Pam talks about the need to read contracts carefully “before” you sign them.

FMX 2013 Announces Pixar Highlights, Cloud Computing and More

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FMX to screen new Pixar short The Blue Umbrella among other key highlights.

DreamWorks Animation Confirms Layoffs

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DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg says layoffs already have begun and that 350 of the studio’s 2,200 employees will have been let go by year’s end.

VES Issues Open Letter, Call To Action

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In response to the protest at Sunday's Oscars as well as recent layoffs at Rhythm & Hues, Digital Domain, DreamWorks and other facilities, the VES issues an Open Letter and Call to Action.

Career Coach: The Golden Rule

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach | Site Categories: Jobs & Recruiting, People
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Pam draws important lessons from the late Huell Howser.

Take The “Four C” Challenge

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When it comes to figuring out what makes sense for you in how you handle your career, there are a few basic principles that might help.

Denial Meet Acceptance

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Denial is a mask, a shroud, a garment we wear when nothing else seems to fit. It’s what keeps us in place, holding on long after we forgot why we were holding on in the first place.

Bobby Beck Talks New Directions in Animation Education

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Site Categories: 3D, CG, Education and Training, Films, Jobs & Recruiting, People, Visual Effects
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The Animation Mentor CEO discusses educational philosophy and how his school’s new AMP fully distributed production pipeline meets a changing industry’s needs.

Career Coach: Tis the Season to Give and Receive

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Career Coach | Site Categories: Jobs & Recruiting
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As we start 2013, Pam talks about being open to receiving opportunities, friendships, and help from unexpected sources.

Five Steps To Slaughter Your Career

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When it comes to finding ways to sabotage your career efforts think of how a poor Thanksgiving turkey wound up a sacrifice for the joys of your holiday meal. It’s not so much that you have to be plucked, sucked and tucked to fit into your turkey suit, but what have you done to help escape your fate? Here are five sure fire ways to slaughter your career in any season.

I’m Glad, Im Sad & I’m Mad

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These are three sentiments we have all felt at one time or another when it comes to how we may feel about our careers.

R.I.P. Mourning Your Career

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Before you turn into a cast member from “The Walking Dead” know that you can manage the loss of your career and let it RIP.