- We wanna understand why you're interested
in interning at Nickelodeon, or any other company
but for specific to Nickelodeon,
we wanna understand like,
what is it that you're interested in?
Maybe you're like a marketing major,
but you really want to go into animation,
but your resume is like,
maybe you had a marketing internship
at like three different companies,
but you're really interested in what we do here,
you love SpongeBob.
An objective on your resume definitely helps,
but your cover letter really is going to seal the deal
for like, I grew up on Nickelodeon,
I really wanted to understand
what the world of production is like.
Tell us your passions,
it's gonna tell us the whys and who you are.
And so oftentimes
when we're recruiting for different departments,
the hiring managers will actually ask us,
"Hey, we have a resume, but do you know if this person
"has a cover letter?"
And so they really do like to hear
kind of the heart behind the reason for the application.
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There's a misconception that you need to have completely
like one to one experience
with whatever job that you're applying for, no.
And I think, especially if you are still in school,
or you're still early career,
you might not necessarily have say,
the experience as somebody who's been in the industry
for like five, 10 years has.
I would say, especially for students,
any experience that you have is job experience.
So for example, if you work at Starbucks as a barista,
or if you worked in retail,
or if you oversaw a film project at school,
and you played the director, the writer, the producer,
the artist, all of that is relevant work experience
that can be transferable to a job or like an internship.
So I wouldn't get too discouraged regarding that.
Because if you look at it
kind of from a high level point of view,
you'll realize that the actual hard skills
that you have trained yourself in
will actually be really relevant to a lot of the jobs
for example, a production assistant position.
Sometimes people think,
well, I don't have any experience being a PA,
but the question is,
have you done things where you have to be really organized?
Have you worked with a lot of different types of people,
like managing different aspects?
So those things are very transferable to your resumes.
- And also, if you've ever done any volunteer work,
you can put that experience in.
If you've worked as a TA at school,
or if you've done any even retail,
because that's customer service,
depending on if it's production management,
or what the job is,
you can put those types of experience in.
- If you are worried
about not having any animation experience,
I would like to just put out there
that my experiences before joining Nickelodeon
was just working attractions at Disneyland,
I had no knowledge of the animation pipeline whatsoever,
and yet here I am.
You just need to adjust your resume
and make sure to showcase the skills
that are transferable to PA or EA entry level roles.
- So many people that you'll find in animation,
they didn't come from an animation background.
Like I was a biology major for three years in college,
before then I did sociology.
So the diversity in terms of the backgrounds
and the areas of study is really, really vast, for sure.
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- Cover letter should be brief,
it should talk a little bit about yourself,
a little bit about your background,
some of your skills,
and why you think you're a good fit for the job.
But it should be brief, keep it short and sweet.
- The analogy that I like to use
is like your resume and your cover letter
are like that movie trailer
that's gonna help that person say,
"Oh, that trailer looks awesome.
"I wanna go see that movie, let's go."
I know that when I was job seeking,
and I was stressing out about like, what do I wanna put.
I was always worried about who are they gonna want me to be?
And yes, there is that part of it too.
They're looking for a specific type of person
to help fulfill this role, but be authentically you.
You're the only one that can tell your story.
And that is really going to shine through,
is like your passion.
Don't ever try to pretend to be somebody that you're not,
because then it's just gonna be like a pale shade of gray
compared to the awesome that is you.
And so the resume and the cover letter,
you also don't have to worry
about putting everything on there,
make sure that it's really relevant to the job description.
So we're not asking you
to put every single job that you've had,
just put the relevant ones on there.
And really the resume and the cover letter
are there to whet the appetite of the recruiter
and the hiring manager.
It's to get you the interview.
It's not to get you the job, it's to get you the interview.
So you can go down and do like a slam dunk like,
"Hey, hire me."
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- Testing,
testing one, two, three. (microphone feedback ringing)
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- We're gonna dive deep into the world of storyboarding.
- 2D animation pipeline.
- Four act structure.
- This is everything when it comes to character design.
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This session is for you all.
We want to be as helpful as possible.
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- Now you must acquire a taste for freeform jazz.
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Okay SpongeBob you're ready!