Are you a News Producer, Reporter, MMJ, Anchor, or Meteorologist? Let's simplify career management for you!
Are you a News Producer, Reporter, MMJ, Anchor, or Meteorologist? Let's simplify career management for you. You need to manage your professional profile on two websites, maybe a third. Hear me out ...
Networking and Connecting: Every hiring and talent acquisition manager in the industry is on one of these two platforms today, more than 300 are registered on both. TalentBlvd.com has over 1,000 active monthly power users that are almost exclusively coming from TV News and Entertainment. LinkedIn obviously has scale and millions of active users outside of the industry if that's a potential move for you. 63% of all referred traffic to TalentBlvd.com comes from LinkedIn.
Job/Career Management: Between the two sites, they list every industry job opening and both LinkedIn and TalentBlvd.com allow users to upload reels and resumes and manage their own professional image and brand. You own your bio, social and personal website links, and personal information like contract dates, desired geographies, your agency, even salary requirements. TalentBlvd has a large Mentor and Coaching network available to clients.
Transparency: This is a bigger issue than you think. Nearly every other industry platform, whether an internal career site or another talent dot com type organization, allows hiring managers to make notes on clients that are visible to other hiring managers (NDs/Recruiters) in their network. You have no idea what is being said behind your back, so to speak.
Value: Both LinkedIn and TalentBlvd have completely free options with no future fees or obligations when you connect with a hiring manager and accept an offer. Both have Premium options that give you more visibility and access to data (like the TalentBlvd Job Board's 5,000 open jobs). I can't speak for LinkedIn but TalentBlvd.com's Premium/Verified profiles are only $5 bucks a month.
Ok, what is the third website you should consider? YouTube. I would build a collection on digital content on YouTube that I could pull from. There are NDs using YouTube to find candidates but it's SUPER time consuming, cumbersome, and frustrating. I would use YouTube not as a career marketing tool, but as a repository of my digital content.
As always, interested in your thoughts and experiences, please DM me at your convenience.
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