About EntertainmentJobsPro.com

Rob Mason
Chief Executive Officer

A Message from Rob:

This service was born out of the frustration and the sheer lack of control I felt in my own job search. I should let you know that I am not from human resources and I had zero experience in the world of staffing. In April of 2003, I had been on the job hunt for about 12 months. It was a weird process because all of my previous jobs had come through referral. I never had to really look for a job. My background was in production, working both in television and in commercial video production.

As the dotcom bust came my commercial video production business went. The calls I had typically gotten from colleagues and Corporate Recruiters died. I was only getting calls from "Insurance Companies" that wanted me to make "big bucks" selling life insurance to all of my unemployed friends.

When I hit that 12-month wall I was depressed. I really questioned my skills in the current job market. Maybe I needed a new career, new education, more of something.

I saw an ad that sparked my interest and decided to go for it. I knew I was a perfect fit...not the first time I thought that. I made a deal with myself that I would check out other career paths if this application turned into yet another bust. The job was for an internal Director of Video Production for a Fortune 500 company in Beverly Hills. I met all of the qualifications and criteria.

I applied with mild hope. After two weeks I decided to call and see if they even received my resume. Some HR Assistant connected me with the Corporate Recruiter. Before I could get two words out she launched into a polished rap about resumes and keeping them on file for five years....blah, blah. I was enraged and what I heard was that she didn't care and they weren't interested. Before she hung up I said that I wasn't calling about my resume. I said it to be contrary. I told her that I was doing a documentary....a documentary on the modern job search and the rules of landing a job in a post-dotcom world. It was all I could come up with on the spot. I told her that I was looking for staffing pros, insiders, to get their insight on today's effective job search strategies. She asked me what I had produced that she may have seen and I directed her to a website that had a couple of shorts, commercial video stuff and one terrible pilot I shot for NBC (which was never picked up). That terrible pilot caught her attention and got her really excited. I was not prepared for what was coming.

An hour and a half later I had learned all you wanted to know about how candidates miss the mark. Wild! She asked me if I was looking for more people to interview and if there was a taping soon. Yes?! We hung up, she took my info and I reflected on what just happened. The big take away was that everything that I was doing to find a job was wrong. I was able to leverage that first interview into about fifty more with other Corporate Recruiters. I even conducted video interviews with a dozen recruiters thinking that I would make an actual documentary. The more I spoke with these insiders the more I realized how critical their info was to my search and everyone else's job search. There was something big happening.

I met a guy that had been in staffing during my job hunt. He had a common sense approach to finding jobs that was based on personal branding. He gave me the insight and push I needed to see what had been presented to me, a unique service from the insider's perspective. If I could share these insights and develop relationships with these insiders across the country I could deliver a unique and powerful service for job seekers. I contacted some of the Corporate Recruiters I ended up speaking with and asked them if they wanted to share their knowledge with job seekers to help them land great jobs. The company started with me and eight Corporate Recruiters. The first and only Career-Matching service was born.

Career-Matching

The world of job search changed before 2009. Companies started to cut back on staffing agencies and headhunters because finding talent was easier and cheaper than ever before. Job boards proved to be ineffective and a waste of time for employers, attracting candidates that had little to no experience related to their job openings. Still, one statistic stayed firm through these staffing shifts. Over 80% of open jobs were filled by networking and referral, the "hidden job market".

If you didn't have a connection at a company how could you get access to these jobs? We had an idea. We developed a system that leverages personal relationships and access over technology and outsourced services. Our staff of former Fortune 500 Corporate Recruiters have built relationships with thousands of Corporate Recruiters across the country to source leads for each one of our members. This gives our members access to that hidden job market. As a result our members have had a success rate of 63% within 90 days, an industry anomaly.

If you are sick and tired of sending your resume and getting no response, having headhunters call you for nothing and being solicited to sell insurance to your friends then we are ready to work for you.