I always wondered who reads those third party applications? Art directors or HR department? If HR department, do they even know what to look for art wise or are they just looking for keywords? You know, experience in 3ds max, shipped tittles, blah blah. Anyways, I also vote for not going in person. It's weird. Just keep on…
~ We get a ton of those offers at our studio from kids. It literally scares the crap out of the HR whenever they hear it. Don't ever do this. It makes you sound scarily desperate, and will destroy your chances of being taken seriously as an artist.
One of our artists dropped off his CV in person wearing a stormtrooper outfit. He got hired. Go big or go home. :) IMO, anything you can do to be more interesting than just another piece of paper in the HR stack, do it.
This times a million. Who cares if you make a ton of money when you dont love what you do 40 hours of your week. As for the coming into a studio thing unannounced, Im going to tell HR to start carrying a gun at the front desk now.
I don't agree with the dudes that say its a bad idea. Visit them, talk to their receptionists, HR, give them a CV, ask if there is someone available at the time, if not, leave. Who knows, the art lead may have just been thinking how badly they need another artist...
I actually just came out of a good lunch conversation with our HR on this very topic. Desperation is rarely a good thing. In many cases our HR said it seems like you've sold yourself short, and you look unprofessional. Now she was referring to people showing up, or saying things like "I'll work for free, or I'll work 90…
Don't just cherrypick from his post. That part wasn't the most important, this is: There's obviously established routes to go. It's not giving you a heads up to go there in person, so why do it? I don't understand where all these arguments are coming from. I know our HR is swamped with stuff right now and is basically…
I got my first industry job through this route. The way you do it is to call up the studio first and politely ask whether it would be alright to bring around your portfolio and perhaps have a chat with the HR about it. Some will say no, but with some luck others will allow it. I think I got 4 casual interviews with…
Honestly, my experience with most jobs has been this: unless it's a retail or service job that has a public face they will be a bit put off by someone showing up and applying for a job - lots of office job listings online will even say specifically "NO CALLS". I used to work at a newspaper; people showing up looking for…