Career Coach: Tips to Thrive in 2005
Scott Shaw! writes about Fat Alberts return to animation within his first venture into live-action.
Column: Career Coach
Career Coach: Gift Ideas
The Career Coach gives some holiday shopping tips that will help your career and the animation industry in general.
Career Coach: Thanks is for Giving
The Career Coach gets into in the Thanksgiving spirit and reflects on the helping hands that gave us aid during the previous year.
Career Coach: Scary Stuff — How to Drive a Stake Through the Heart of Your Network
In the spirit of Halloween, the Career Coach gives some helpful hints on how not to scare off your network on contacts and connections.
Going the Distance: Online Learning
Karen Raugust looks at how convenience and flexibility make distance learning a viable option for animation education and training.
“So… How Do You See Yourself in Our Studio?” What We Are Teaching — And Neglecting to Teach — Our Animation Students
Raquel Benez looks at office politics, the crucial topic to landing a job at a studio and whether schools are preparing students for the dog-eat-dog real world.
Career Coach: Make Learning a Habit
The Career Coach tells readers that learning is not a habit someone wants break.
The Career Coach: Battling Shyness
The Career Coach takes on a common obstacle in any career -- shyness.
Career Coach: It’s Showtime
Joe Strike sets out to find out how independent animators find work within the system while keeping their independence.
Career Coach: Accepting a Job Proposal
The Career Coach points out various considerations and things to check out before you enter into a relationship with an employer that will hopefully result in a happy employment.
Counselors’ Challenge to Place Students in the Workforce
Marisa Materna looks into the little known career and role of school career counselors, guardian angels who must summon up their marketing and publicity savvy and be a strong networking agent to shepherd students into the working world.
Career Coach: How to Impress a Recruiter
The Career Coach explains what recruiters do for their company or client and how to help them land you a job.
Career Coach: Spring into Action
The Career Coach gives six tips to help you spring into action and strut your stuff.
Career Coach: The Confidence Game
Bill Desowitz reports back from the VES Awards, where the best in visual effects for 2003 and the career of George Lucas were honored.
Career Coach: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
The Career Coach talks about how and why to shop for your next job gracefully without antagonizing your current employer.
Career Coach: Volunteer to Boost Your Career
The Career Coach talks about how giving a little of your time can give back to your career.
Career Coach: Give Your Career a Holiday Gift
The Career Coach talks about ways you can give yourself a big gift during the holidays by helping your career.
Career Coach: The ABCDs of the Invisible Résumé
The Career Coach talks about the importance of the invisible rum
Career Coach: Employment Trick & Treats
This Halloween month, the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, shares some tricks and treats to help you stay employed.
Career Coach: Unemployment Insurance
This month, the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, goes tough-in-cheek about her dos and donts regarding sending out your rumto potential employers.
Career Coach: Internships: An Introduction to a Career
This month the Career Coach, Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, talks about how to test-drive a job or get your foot in the door via an internship.
Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 2
Gene Deitch continues with the story of his work with Jamison Handy and JHO.
Don’t Give Your Right Name! — Part 1
Fats Waller once said that, and another blues man sang, It Must Be Jelly, Cause Jam Dont Shake Like That! There really was a man named Jam Jam Handy and he ran a 500-person studio in the then gloomy city of Detroit. It was an amazing adventure working there, in that most amazing, little-known but heavyweight studio. I directed my first film there, nearly had my tender career nipped, and discovered John Lee Hooker. 1949-51.
Career Coach: SIGGRAPH 2003
This month the Career Coach Pamela Kleibrink Thompson suggests what you need to get the most out of SIGGRAPH 2003, what to take and what attitudes to leave home.
Career Coach: Graduate to a Good Life
This month the Career Coach passes on some fatherly advice.
