Tips on Filling in the Resume Form
(sample resume)
Email: This is vital, as it is a means for both us and companies to contact you. You will also receive regular emails informing you of appropriate job postings, and a weekly Here's Looking at You Kid email letting you know which companies have viewed your resume. Please ensure your email address is correctly entered as it is our main means of contacting you. Should you change your email address please change it in your online resume.
Login and Password: Choose your own - it can be anything! You can change
them whenever you want by deleting your current choice and typing in
something new. The login and password are case sensitive and must have more than 5 characters.
Broadcast Credits: The colored diamonds stand for Broadcast Credits, 1/2 hour, 1 hour and feature length. They are a quick guide to your qualifications and companies find this tool very useful when searching. Please only use if applicable!
Phone Numbers: In most cases companies will contact you by phone. You can choose whether your contact numbers are visible or hidden.
About Me: This section is for you to promote yourself to companies. You might wish to emphasize certain career experience, or lay down your intended
career path. Really, it's a means for a company to tell what you have done
and what you are hoping to do, and for you to communicate your objectives.
Credits/Employment History: There is a limit of 4,000 characters (approx.
1.5 sides of letter size) in this field. (You can upload a Word or PDF version of your resume
which can be of any length and would include your personalized formatting -
see Help page when you're logged in.) As with the About Me section, you
have free rein over what you write. Here are a couple of suggestions... but
they are by no means absolute, as different people have different
approaches... If you are very experienced and have many credits you might not
wish to go into too much detail about each particular production. If you are
more junior you might wish to write a few sentences on each production -
what it was, what your role involved. If you have no TV & film credits, put
in your other work experience, and in your About Me section explain how
the skills you have acquired can translate from one industry to the TV &
film industry. (sample resume)
Specialties: Regard these as areas of knowledge rather than areas of
expertise or subjects relating to program types on which you have worked.
(e.g. you might be
a keen, green-fingered gardener, yet have no experience of gardening
programs - in which case it's fine to list Gardening, or you might have
an engineering degree, so could list Engineering.)
Other Specialties: You can type in any other specialties. Companies can run text searches that pick out these words (e.g. paleontology,
dentistry).
Program Types: These are the types of programs on which you have worked rather than the types of programs on which you would like to work.
