- Something that I really look for when I'm like reviewing
a resume for a potential opportunity on my show
or other shows,
is I'm looking for someone who's been able to troubleshoot
in the role that they have,
someone who has experience putting out fires,
and can systematically approach a challenge
and kinda figure out how to best find a solution to it.
And then another thing that I look for is adaptability,
someone who can wear many hats.
- I'm Xu. Dock's my brother.
(theatrical music)
- But we just saw you, you're even wearing the same clothes.
The only difference is your hat.
- Dock works on the docks.
That's why they call him Dock,
and I work in the shop,
that's why they call me Xu.
- I see that a lot of people feel like they might be
too over qualified to be a PA,
or they feel like maybe they've done too much work,
and now they might not be hired.
That's also not true.
I think that there's many people like me who don't come
from that background or come from, you know,
like I was an event planner for many years
on weddings and stuff,
so to me, when I'm looking at resumes
I look at all the transferable roles that you had
and how they apply.
And that means like if you worked at a grocery store,
dealing with people, that's a big thing.
If you worked in retail, that's a big thing.
There are ways, especially if you're starting to, you know,
be a PA, don't be afraid of that, apply, apply, apply.
Don't be afraid, especially women out there,
and this is something I relate, I'm sure men too,
but women out there,
you see a position and there's 10 things
and you can only do four, and then you don't apply
because you're terrified, right?
And you're like, I don't know if I can do this.
Men will go and will see three things they can do
and they'll apply,
so we have to use that rule as well.
And that's something that I kind of tell people
is like, if you don't think you can do this job
because there's five, seven, eight things, Google it.
Go online and find out what these words mean.
Find out what they'll do, you have a community around you,
your friends who are artists,
your friends who are in production,
social media, like ask those questions.
The other thing that I look at is a little bit personality.
If you're applying for an animation, a creative role,
I do look for a little bit personality
because you're working in cartoons.
You're making content for kids.
That's what I look for personally right away.
And then the last thing I look at is notes.
How are you with notes?
That's the best advice I can give you now.
And this is for always, if you work in animation,
you're either going to be taking notes,
reading notes, giving notes, or trying to translate notes.
Learn how to take notes 'cause you're always,
even when you become a director, producer, show runner,
you're gonna be giving notes.
- I'm doing it, I'm doing it!
Yeah, yeah! Yeah!
Some of these, and some of these...
Almost there, and done.
(pencil sizzling)
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Now let's see how it looks so far.
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- The.
Break time!
- And then the last thing that I look for is presence.
You have to be able to run a room.
I don't think people realize the pressure
and the responsibility that PAs and coordinators have
in the session.
I'm not in all the sessions,
so if a director's not agreeing with another director
and they have to make a decision
and I'm not there to be like, okay guys,
like what we do want and being like the ref,
then guess what Carlo has to do it
because that's his job.
So you have to be able to run the room in a way of like,
okay, this is what you think, so what do you think,
well you know, what if we do this,
or what do you guys think about this?
And sort of that, that is the biggest thing,
and if you're someone who's going to come into an interview
with a very like meek introvert personality,
that's going to be a little hard
because we need someone to be like,
okay guys, we're out of time or,
okay guys, we have 10 minutes, we gotta go.
So if you can't show me that you can handle a room
or handle those personalities, it's really hard.
So those are the things that I personally look for.
- Testing, testing one, two, three.
(upbeat jazz music)
- We're going to dive deep into the world
of storyboarding.
- 2D animation pipeline.
Four act structure.
- This is everything when it comes
to character design.
- This session is for you all.
We want to be as helpful as possible.
- Now you must acquire a taste for free-form jazz.
(fast-paced jazz music)
Okay SpongeBob, you're ready!