KEVA DINEKEVA DINE | KEVA DINE http://www.kevadine.com a boutique recruitment firm and custom profiles service provider for the creative industries. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:22:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Production Artist (Freelance to Full Time/LA area) http://www.kevadine.com/2012/02/production-artist-freelance-to-full-timela-area/ http://www.kevadine.com/2012/02/production-artist-freelance-to-full-timela-area/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:22:35 +0000 keva dine http://www.kevadine.com/?p=2519 My LA area client is in the surf, skate snow industry – relevant industry experience (and the book to prove it) is required.
My ideal candidate needs to freelance in house full time ASAP for a few weeks to ensure fit. Also considering straight full time only candidates.
Show me why you: Email your resume, PDF portfolio, links to on-line portfolio. Be sure to include your salary history, current situation, who referred you, as well as your contact information.
LOCAL candidates ONLY. If you live outside the LA area, do NOT apply to this post. (but yes, you can still make contact here.)
MORE DETAILS:
The Production Artist will support the Art Directors in the execution of multi-platform campaigns, inclusive of print, web, catalogs, tradeshows/events & retail POP. Must possess technical expertise in setting up production ready files, be able to take creative direction well & translate to appropriate specifications needed. Will be responsible for building assets for campaigns across multiple platforms. Working knowledge of printing processes required for building out mechanicals to be sent to press as well as preparing files for web output.
The position requires advanced knowledge of printing process as it relates to preparing final mechanicals that are press ready. Attention to detail required. Must be able to multi-task and prioritize in a deadline driven environment. Will be required to work with project management software program, so prior experience with agency based project management software program is helpful.
Job Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts in Graphic Design or related field.
  • Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience.
  • Must be proficient in Adobe CS4 or higher.
  • Strong InDesign, Photoshop & Illlustrator skills required.
  • Working knowledge of KeyNote preferred.
  • Must have strong time management & organizational skills.
  • Ability to prioritize & multi-task required within a deadline driven environment.
  • Prior experience in agency based project management software program preferred.
  • Must be a team player with a great attitude.
  • Prior Surf & Skateboarding Industry experience preferred.
  • Passion for boardriding culture & lifestyle required.
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My LA area client is in the surf, skate snow industry – relevant industry experience (and the book to prove it) is required.
My ideal candidate needs to freelance in house full time ASAP for a few weeks to ensure fit. Also considering straight full time only candidates.
Show me why you: Email your resume, PDF portfolio, links to on-line portfolio. Be sure to include your salary history, current situation, who referred you, as well as your contact information.
LOCAL candidates ONLY. If you live outside the LA area, do NOT apply to this post. (but yes, you can still make contact here.)
MORE DETAILS:
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating art and imagery for use across various platforms such as print, online, retail and commercial productions from conception to completion. The responsibilities of this position entails the creation of art packages, conceptualizing and building assets for campaigns across multiple platforms, storyboarding and directing photo & video shoots. Hands on photo editing and asset management will also be required.
The position requires advanced level layout & design skills. The Graphic Designer must possess working knowledge of the printing process for building out press ready files and be equally comfortable converting files for web output. Must be self-sufficient in taking on design projects from concept to completion. Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a deadline driven environment is essential. Will be required to work with project management software program Workamajig, so prior experience with agency based project management software program is helpful.
Job Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts in Graphic Design or related field.
  • Minimum 5-7 years relevant experience.
  • Advanced knowledge of digital imaging and illustration with Adobe CS4 or higher.
  • Must be proficient in InDesign, Photoshop & Illlustrator.
  • Photo editing experience required.
  • Working knowledge of KeyNote preferred.
  • Must have strong time management & organizational skills.
  • Ability to prioritize & multi-task required within a deadline driven environment.
  • Prior experience in agency based project management software program such as Workamajig preferred.
  • Must be a team player with a great attitude.
  • Prior Surf & Skateboarding Industry experience preferred.
  • Passion for boardriding culture & lifestyle required.
  • Portfolio of relevant work required.
]]> http://www.kevadine.com/2012/02/graphic-designer-freelance-to-full-timela-area/feed/ 0 Resume Strategy: Are You Overpacking? http://www.kevadine.com/2012/02/resume-strategy-are-you-overpacking/ http://www.kevadine.com/2012/02/resume-strategy-are-you-overpacking/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:04:11 +0000 keva dine http://www.kevadine.com/?p=2499 My grandmother was a world traveler — she cruised to every accessible-by-ocean-liner port of call the planet had to offer.  Much of this globetrotting took place in the ’50s and ’60s, when you still dressed for dinner. If you were a woman on a three-month grand tour of Europe, that meant packing trunks of gowns (not to mention the shoes and accessories that went with them). My grandmother was a master packer. She was guided by a simple principle: If you ask yourself, “Will I need this?” the answer is “No.”
Writing a resume that includes everything about every job you’ve ever had is like packing everything you own for a sea voyage. You simply don’t need it all, and what you don’t need will weigh you down. Like the captain of the ship, you have to pick a destination. Set your coordinates to “dream boss” — or “D.B.” as she henceforth shall be known — and steer every word of your resume toward her.
What a lot of candidates don’t understand is that your resume isn’t about YOU; it’s about HER. It’s not a question of what you’ve done — but of what you’ve done THAT’S RELEVANT TO HER. You must target D.B., then curate your resume content just for her.
But what if you’ve had more short-term jobs or more jobs outside your chosen field than you’d like to admit? It’s true that if your tenure in a position was fewer than 10-15 years ago, you must include it on your resume, even if you were working the counter at Clinique between graphic-design jobs. But beyond citing your title, the years you were there and perhaps a parenthetical descriptor of what Clinique is, you need not go into detail about this gig.
The value of this resume inclusion is simply as “evidence” of employment — D.B. wants to know that even if you weren’t working in her field at the time, you WERE working (by the way, doing freelance and pro-bono projects IS working). You weren’t, say, in jail or on the lam.
But, you may be thinking, sales and customer-relations skills are in demand. Shouldn’t I play them up? They are very much in demand BUT NOT BY D.B. Let’s say D.B. is the creative director at a technology company looking for a rock-star art director. Is she interested in your sales and customer-relations skills? She is not. Does it matter to her that you worked in the personal-care industry? It does not. Should you waste precious resume real estate sharing the challenges you faced in that job, your solutions to those challenges, the results of those solutions and the metrics that support those results? You should not.
One of the bonuses of tight targeting is that you have more room on the page for “performance stories” like those, the golden nuggets that will dazzle D.B. and make her FEEL IT IN HER BONES that you and only you are the person for this job.
How do you achieve this target focus? First, do your homework: Find out who D.B. is, then research her. The Net is a good place to start, but if you can find a colleague of a colleague who knows her or knows something about her, your intel will be that much more powerful.
Now that you have your resume-reading audience of one, pitch the entire document to HER — not to her AND some other person at some other company in some other industry who might give the thing a read if D.B. doesn’t. That’s how you GUARANTEE D.B. won’t. One-resume-fits-all thinking was rendered obsolete by the Crash of 2008.
So as you craft your resume, ask yourself repeatedly: “Do I need to pack this on my journey to D.B.?” Odds are the answer is “no.”

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By Katy Steinmetz, author of Time.com’s “Wednesday Words” language column
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Ready to make a move?  Love your job but curious what else is out there? In-between positions? Want to slide into another industry similar but different than the one you’re in? Recognize that it’s more confidential / beneficial for a Recruiter to look around for you?
The KEVA DINE database is vast, deep, has global reach across many markets and industries (Action Sports Co’s to Apparel Manufacturers to Advertising Agencies to emerging multi-disciplinary boutique creative agencies) as well as multiple organization sizes (from Target HQ to an 8 person design shop) and is connected to some of the most talented and progressive in the business.
Find out more here.
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