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One key to
success in searching for jobs online is to target the sites that are the most
popular among employers seeking employees for their specific industries. For
instance, a site such as CreativeHeads is likely to have more qualified job
listings for game character illustration than another more generalized job
site.
Search Recommendations
Although it
is easy to click on a link and very quickly begin to search for job offering it
can also be a bit tricky as well. So here are some suggestions that should help
when you enter one of these sites.
Adapt to the Terminology of the Site
Nearly every
one of these sites uses its own terminology to categorize a type of job. For
instance, one site lists gaming jobs under the category of “Art/Animation”
while another site lists them under “Design & Concept”.
Use Multiple Keywords
Most of
these sites use a combination of word types to classify categories and jobs. So
a site might use career classification words like “Illustration” and Graphic
Design” in the same category list with type of work words like “Gaming” and “Concept
Art”. Some even add skill descriptive words to the list like “Photoshop” or
“InDesign”.
Some
Suggested Keywords
Gaming or
Game Design
Video Gaming
Visual
Development or Visualization
Motion Art
Character
Design
Concept Art
Environmental
Art
Visual
Assets
Follow the Links
To really
get to the heart of a job offering you should follow the link and subsequent
links until you are able to read the entire job description and obtain the
information you need. Some of the listings are only partial descriptions of
jobs or freelance projects.
Note Salary and Dollar Amounts
Many of the listings
state the compensation amount up front, some are realistic, and some are
nothing more than highway robbery. Freelance jobs can be listed by a fixed
price or by an hourly rate and number of hours. Take care. Some sites are set
up to benefit the employers while others try to benefit job seekers and
freelancers.
Be Flexible With Job Titles
Some job
titles are well established and understood by the industries they serve such as
Graphic Designer, Industrial Designer, etc. Other job titles are much less
defined and can vary widely in job descriptions. One of these is “Concept
Artist”, which to an employer can mean anything from Visual Developer to, Animator,
to Storyboard Artist, to User Interface Designer, to Digital Painter, to Game
Artist, and others.
Some
Suggested Job Titles
Game Artist
Character
Artist or Character Concept Artist
Environment
Artist or Environment Concept Artist
Development
Artist
Technical
Artist
UI Artist or
User Interface Artist
Art Designer
Content
Artist
Visual
Designer or Visual Developer or Visualization Designer
Assets
Artist or Visual Assets Artist
Motion
Graphics Artist
Gaming and Entertainment Full-Time Employment
CreativeHeads
With the
slogan “Jobs For The Right Brains”, CreativeHeads.net boasts the most
comprehensive recruitment software solution for professionals in the Video
Game, Animation, TV & Film, and 3D Technology & Software Tools
industries whether they are employers searching for job seekers or job seekers
looking to secure the "right" job. Their primary objectives are to
offer job seekers access to job opportunities across multiple creative content
industries and provide Employers with a highly economical, effective tool that
streamlines their staffing and recruitment process. CreativeHeads.net is not
just a job board but also a conduit that will facilitate communication and the
rapid exchange of information between employers and job seekers. Our mission is
to allow people to be as creative in their career and business choices as they
are in their work! Job seekers can search by keyword, industry, occupation or
company location.
Entertainment Careers
Specializing
in entertainment job and internship listings, Entertainment Careers lists all
sorts of jobs, everything from art and animation to casting to acting to
broadcast jobs, and more, in the entertainment, sports & music industries,
at studios, networks, production companies, etc. Jobs in Film, TV, VFX, animation,
production, post-production, and design are among the positions listed.
Internships are also listed. Entertainment Careers represents hundreds of
employers including the largest names in the entertainment industry. Companies
include Disney, Warner Brothers, MTV, HBO, CBS, ABC, etc.
Entertainment
Careers also provides useful links to information such as “Types of Studio
Jobs: Hollywood”, “Promote and Protect: How to Safeguard Your Creative Work
From Theft”, and more.
GameJobs
GameJobs
distinguishes itself from competitors by being one of the few, if only,
dedicated business for the interactive entertainment industry. The first, the
largest, and the most comprehensive, game job site serving the international
business community. A go-to destination and staple for the industry's leading
recruiters with hundreds of active job listings currently posted.
Counted
among the long-term supporters of GameJobs.com are such notable gaming publishers
as: Electronic Arts, Midway, Microsoft Xbox, LucasArts, Activsion, Vivendi-Universal,
Sony, and Nintendo to name a few.
GameJobs.com
features an all-new design that is intended to aid in site navigation while
affording the visitor tools that will be useful in their objective. To that end
the site is divided evenly between job seekers, with services designed to aid
potential employees in finding the right match for their skill sets; and a
second section entitled "employers/recruiters", which aims to make the
recruitment listing process well worthwhile.
Cartoon Brew
Every day since 2004, Cartoon Brew has delivered the latest news, trends and ideas in animation to over 25,000 different artists, entertainment execs and cartoon aficionados. The site includes an extensive job listing for the entertainment field with a main emphasis on art related jobs, which makes it a first choice stop for animation professionals and artists looking for employment in the entertainment industry. Cartoon Brew is the go to site for many prominent animation and motion-based arts firms to list the jobs they have available.
In addition to job listings, the site also contains industry news features as well as sections on the animation business, technology, and artist's rights. It even serves as a forum for animators and firms to display their films and short animations.
In addition to job listings, the site also contains industry news features as well as sections on the animation business, technology, and artist's rights. It even serves as a forum for animators and firms to display their films and short animations.
Industry Specific Associations & Resources
Industry
Associations provide a rich source of information as well as a way to network
with other professionals in the field.
International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
(IGDA) is
the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all
individuals who create games. As an international organization, IGDA is a
global network of collaborative projects and communities comprised of
individuals from all fields of game development from artists to programmers and
producers to writers. IGDA holds key industry conferences, and has over 90 local
Chapters and in Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to improve their lives and their
craft. They advocate on behalf of our membership to ensure quality of life,
perpetuation of the craft and preparing the next generation of developers. Whether
you're a student with a goal to become a game developer or a seasoned veteran,
regardless if you're based in the U.S. or any country/region in the world,
whether you're an indie developer or in a AAA studio, whether your primary
platform is a PC, console or a tabletop IGDA welcomes you.
IGDA’s
mission is to advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by
connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and
advocating on issues that affect the developer community.
The Independent Game Developers Association (TIGA)
Located in
the UK, TIGA is a non-profit trade association representing the UK's games
industry. Our members include independent games developers, in-house
publisher-owned developers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and
universities. TIGA's vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do
games business. We do this through Government lobbying and maintain a voice in
the corridors of power at both the Westminster and Scottish parliaments.
We have an active press department that promotes our ambitions among the trade press, national press and on TV, radio and online. TIGA is the voice of the UK games industry.
We have an active press department that promotes our ambitions among the trade press, national press and on TV, radio and online. TIGA is the voice of the UK games industry.
Game Career Guide
A excellent
source for information on careers in the gaming industry, the Game Career Guide
contains features on gaming, forums, and information on schools. There is also
a link to Gamasutra a website that lists jobs for “The Art and Business of
Making Games” http://jobs.gamasutra.com/.
There is even an automated “Digital Counselor” that upon completing a
questionnaire, provides guidance to career resources.
Multiple Industry Full Time Employment
SimplyHired
One of the
first employment sites that appear when using a search engine to locate
illustration jobs in gaming and entertainment is SimplyHired. A well organized,
well thought-out site, SimplyHired has search and advanced search engines that
allow a job seeker to pinpoint job listing based on job type, title, location,
company, most recent posting, etc. There are also job search tools that provide
an average salary amount for a specific job title. There are also special
filters that can be applied such as recent graduate, Fortune 500, etc. Job type
filters include full-time, permanent, part-time, internship, and more. There is
even a filter for educational requirements. Special
Note: When searching educational requirements for “game character
illustration”, of the 143 jobs listed, 139 of them required a Bachelor’s
degree, the others were one Masters, one professional, one high school, and one
no requirement.
Glassdoor
Glassdoor has
listed millions of the latest jobs and allows you to see which
employers are hiring, what it's really like to work or interview there
according to employees, and how much you could earn. Unlike other jobs sites, on
Glassdoor, employees about their companies share information. Glassdoor holds a
growing database of 6 million company reviews, CEO approval
ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions,
benefits reviews, office photos and more.
What
differentiates Glassdoor from other recruiting channels is the quality of job employers
and our influence on candidates' decisions as they research jobs and companies.
Another huge
advantage to Glassdoor is that it is also available via its mobile
app on iOS and Android platforms.
Glassdoor
also provides links to interview experiences written by actual candidates,
understanding interview questions, and interview tips.
iHire Commercial Art
Whether you
need a job or need to hire, iHireCommercialArt is a niche job board dedicated
solely to the Commercial Art industry; they bring Commercial Art jobs and
Commercial Art job seekers together to make successful employment possible. From
illustrators to photographers to art directors and more, you can find a job or
fill an opening quickly and easily on iHireCommercialArt.
For job
seekers, we take the "search" out of your job search.
iHireCommercialArt gives you a single place to find Commercial Art jobs that
are posted across the internet. We don't just wait for employers to come to us;
we also actively collect online job listings from places like small and large
business websites, employment classifieds, government databases, industry
associations and more. As a member of iHireCommercialArt, you can access all of
these jobs in one place so you spend less time searching and more time
interviewing.
Jobs can be
searched for by job title alone or by job title and state. The site lists 3D
Designer Jobs, Art Director Jobs, Art Manager Jobs, Artist Jobs, Associate Art
Director Jobs, Cartoonist Jobs, Color Design Consultant Jobs, Design Assistant
Jobs, Desktop Publisher Jobs, Exhibit Designer Jobs, Fabric Designer Jobs,
Graphic Artist Jobs, Graphic Designer Jobs, Graphic Technician Jobs,
Illustrator Jobs, Interior Designer Jobs, Layout Artist Jobs, Medical
Illustrator Jobs, Multi Media Animator Jobs, Multi Media Designer Jobs, Mural
Designer Jobs, Painter Jobs, Pattern Design Jobs, Photographer Jobs, Promotion
Designer Jobs, Scientific Illustrator Jobs, Set Designer Jobs, Technical
Illustrator Jobs, Textile Designer Jobs, and Videographer Jobs.
Basic
Membership
When you
register with iHireCommercialArt, you will automatically get a free Basic Membership.
The basic membership includes the following:
1. You
can set up a profile and tell us which types of jobs you are looking for.
Each week, we’ll email you new matching jobs so you can stay current on what
jobs are available in your area.
2. You
will be able to upload your resume and make it searchable. Making your
resume searchable is optional, but, by doing so, you allow employers in our
network to find you and view your resume when they look for candidates with
your qualifications.
3. You
will be allowed to search jobs. As a Basic Member, you will see the full
content (title, location, company, description, how to apply) of our featured
jobs. The content of non-featured jobs is reserved exclusively for our Premium
Members, but you can browse their titles and partial descriptions to watch for
that perfect opportunity.
Indeed
Since 2004,
Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of
company websites and job boards. As the leading pay-for-performance recruitment
advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in
every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands
of companies. Founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, Indeed is a subsidiary of
Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. Indeed have offices in Austin, Mountain View, New
York and Stamford in the US, as well as offices in Dublin and London.
You can
search for jobs from the Indeed home page or
in the 'What'/'Where' boxes at the top of any page. To run a search, simply
type keywords into the 'What' box describing the kind of job you want, and
enter a city, state/province or zip/postal code in the 'Where' box. Then click
the 'Find Jobs' button or hit the Enter key on your keyboard. Take a look at
their job search tips for more guidance, or try the advanced job
search for additional options. After you've run a search, click on any job
title to view the job details. This takes you out of Indeed to the website
listing the job.
You can
upload your resume to the site so employers can find you and have access to
your work experience, skill set, and credentials.
Advanced
search allows you to search by job title, location, salary level, job type, and
more. Job title searches generate the number of jobs listed along with
subcategories under major job types such as “Graphic Designer”, which yields
Web Designer, Art Director, Graphic Design Intern, Designer, Junior Graphic
Designer, Junior Designer, Senior Visual Designer, Senior Designer, Interactive
Designer, Design Intern, Ui/Ux Designer, etc.
Find The Right Job
Find The
Right Job allows job seekers to search for jobs by industry. Under the
Arts/Design Jobs category careers in animation, graphic design, game design,
advertising, architecture, fashion design, interior design, photography,
illustration, and industrial design await those who wish to enter the wonderful
world of arts and design (their language not mine) are all listed. Registration
is required to access the full search database.
The job
portal offers a quick and easy way for job seekers to view local, relevant job
listings and apply for the positions that are the best match. Job seekers can
also subscribe to "News You Need," featuring insightful blog entries
on popular career fields, social media, preparing for the job search, and
strategies to get the job. Job seekers can read up on "Employer
Trends," with helpful entries on hiring resources, entry-level placement,
commission position placement, and employer attitudes.
In addition
to providing job listings, Find The Right Job offers articles that provide
useful advice on all sorts of job related subjects. Some of the article titles
available are “Job Hunting Gimmicks: Creative or Crazy?” “The Walt Disney
Company: A Magical Company, A Magical Career.”, “Job Hunting Advice: Olympic
Style.”, and 5 Ways to Research Companies You Want to Work For.”
Monster
Monster
pioneered the business of digital recruiting in 1994, and today we are the only
online recruitment provider able to service customers on a truly global basis.
Monster Worldwide has an unparalleled international reach with a presence in
approximately 50 countries around the world. Monster pioneered the notion of
helping people get more out of work by showing them that a better job was out
there. And helping them find it at Monster. But the workplace has
evolved; people expect more control; people seek more perspective; people crave
more enrichment. Monster believes it is more than just a marketplace for
jobs. Monster doesn't just sell better jobs they say they want to help
promote better lives.
Although
Monster is not as illustrator/artist centric as some of the other job listing
sites, you can still enter a job title, keywords, company name, or location to
conduct a search. You can also browse categories and industries for listings.
Some of the category listings include Creative Design Jobs, Editorial Jobs, IT
Jobs, etc. Industry selection choices include Advertising Jobs, Personal
Services Jobs, and Education Jobs.
Personal
information such as a resume can be uploaded to Monsters database. There are
even resume writing tips to assist you with writing a resume. Monster contains
many articles about the entire job seeking process as well as other career
resources, advice and services. Monster also contains a salary wizard powered
by salaries.com that lists salaries by job title and location.
Careerbuilder
CareerBuilder
was founded in 1995 and now has more than 24 million unique visitors a month
visit CareerBuilder to find new jobs and obtain career advice. With more than
one million jobs, CareerBuilder.com® is the largest career site in the United
States. CareerBuilder has tools for every part of your job search including
résumé writing assistance, skills training, and free skills tests and salary
calculators. Get expert advice on job search tactics, employment trends and
workplace issues from CareerBuilder’s vast library of articles and videos, as
well as its job seeker blog, www.TheWorkBuzz.com.
You can
still enter keywords and/or location to conduct a basic search or you can
browse by category, company, city, or state. A dropdown menu to help with
Careerbuilder’s terminology supports keyword entries. For instance, when I
entered “Illustration” in the title search, Careerbuilder suggested “Visual
Designer Illustrator”. Using that title search resulted in more listings.
Careerbuilder
provides resume services including an online resume builder and even a resume
writer that provides basic statements and templates for a fee. The site offers
job matching technology to target jobs that match keywords in your resume, the
jobs you view and might apply for. The more you use Careerbuilder.com the
better the job matches become. Uploading your resume is the easiest and fastest
way to start getting Job Recommendations.
One of the
best offerings on the Careerbuilder site is the link to Jobology: 153 Ways to
Improve Your Job Search, a 19-page well organized guide to job searching.
Authentic Jobs
Since 2005,
qualified candidates have been applying for great opportunities at Apple,
Facebook, MSNBC.com, frog design, The Motley Fool, Estée Lauder, Turner Sports
Interactive, ESPN, HBO, Phinney Bischoff, Garmin, Sony BMG, Electronic Arts, HP
and many other companies large and small. Our filter controls make it easy to narrow
your preferences and save them in your account. In addition to listings being
featured on authenticjobs.com, listings are also featured
on cameronmoll.comand on about 20 partner websites that are
targeted to the job seekers you’re hoping fill your position. Together, these
sites capture millions of page views every month and hundreds of thousands of
unique visitors.
Not as
illustrator/artist focused as some of the other job listing sites, you can look
for opportunities by the type of job you are seeking. The categories include
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance, Moonlighting, and even Internship.
Krop
Krop started
in 2000 as a private mailing list among top designers, eventually growing into
a small job board on our design community website, Newstoday/QBN. Krop provides
a creative industry job board and portfolio hosting website that is used by the
most talented candidates at all experience levels, and the globe's most respected
creative brands. A creative industry standard, Krop.com is visited over 1
million times a month while still owned by the same designers who started it.
Krop lists an impressive group of clients including GUCCI, Apple, Forbes, Nike,
Google, Guggenheim Museum, Yahoo!, Facebook, Motorola, ABC News, Turner
Broadcasting, The New York Times, Nintendo, Orbitz, Deep Focus,
Dreamworks, Microsoft, Paramount, NBC, ABC, MTV, Netflix, VH1, ESPN, FOX, and
many, many more.
Krop not
only lists jobs that can be searched by keyword and location, but the site also
provides the tools to format and display a portfolio so employers can review
the work of artists. They also feature work in a place, which they call
“Pluck’t”.
Coroflot
Design-driven
companies worldwide use Coroflot to recruit a full spectrum of creative talent.
Coroflot is widely used by artists and creatives to display projects and
portfolios of their work, but Coroflot also hosts a job board that lists job
offerings from some of the most respected creative employers out there. With
over 1000 job listings Coroflot is definitely worth following. Categories
include Animation, 3D Modeling, Character Design, Concept Art, Fashion and
Apparel, Illustration, Model Making, Soft Goods, Graphic Design, Set Design,
and many more; employers such as Hallmark, Landor and Associates, NBC, Puma,
3M, etc.
Illustration Served
A job listing
that is provided by Behance, Illustration Served offers jobs listed by
employers that can be filtered by category. The categories are general areas of
arts such as game design, illustration, drawing, fine art, etc. Somewhat newly
established the site is limited in the number of employers who are listing.
Freelance Commissions
Elance
As the name
implies, Elance is a site devoted to connecting employers with freelancers on a
project-by-project basis. Elance is a popular place to find, hire, manage and
collaborate with online freelancers, and for freelancers to do likewise. As of
this posting there were nearly 6000 job posts under the category of Design and Multimedia,
which contains a number of subcategories including Illustration, Art, Cartoons
& Comics, Graphic Design, Logos, Animation, and many more. Jobs vary widely
in the amount of compensation listed, but there are some that are fairly
priced. Artists can also post a portfolio so that employers can view their work
and offer them commissions.
Guru
Guru for
Freelancers offers the opportunity to market sought-after skills to a global
audience with minimal cost. Innovative features, such as online portfolios,
give Freelancers a cutting edge platform on which to highlight their skills and
experiences in attracting or retaining business. Total Marketing Score data
teaches Freelancers about their personal strengths and weaknesses so that every
service provider on our site has support in becoming a successful free agent –
an online entrepreneur with a core market niche. Even if you work with an
employer on the other side of the world, your payment is secure using SafePay.
The employer pays us before the work begins. As approved milestones are reached
and the employer approves the work, we pay you.
The Art
Design and Multimedia Category contained well over 9000 listings in the categories
of Design, Illustration, 3D, Animation and categories of software expertise in
Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. There were 1800 in Illustration alone. Job
compensation is listed by an hourly rate and a job minimum. Jobs vary widely in
the amount of compensation listed, but there are some that are fairly priced.
oDesk
oDesk
adopted a few simple principles to ensure success for all users, including the
oDesk guarantee that an hour worked is an hour paid, and an hour paid is an
hour worked. oDesk believes that as a Freelancer, you have the right to be paid
for every hour worked—on time, every time; work where you want, when you want;
set an hourly rate based on your skills, experience, and reputation; and have
access to the tools you need to build your business online.
Creative job
listings can be found under the major category of Design and Multimedia, which
listed almost 6500 jobs. Subcategories include Illustration, Print Design,
Animation, and more. Illustration had over 475 listings. Jobs vary widely in
the amount of compensation listed, but there are some that are fairly priced.
Freelancer
Freelancer.com
is the world's largest freelancing, outsourcing, and crowd-sourcing marketplace
for small business with over 10 million users to hire a freelancer for contract
work. In the Design Media and Architecture section you can browse through more
than one hundred skill categories including Illustration, Covers and Packaging,
Graphic Design, Caricatures and Cartoons, Animation, etc.
As a service
to its freelancers, Freelancer offers advice to freelancers about the potential
pitfalls of contract work and how to avoid them. You can check the employer’s
profile for details that will give you a general idea of what type of employer
you are dealing with. You can also look at a user’s reputation rating and
read feedback left by other freelancers about their experiences working with
that employer. This feedback, when available, can be indispensable in providing
an overview of an employer’s interactions with past contractors. Jobs vary
widely in the amount of compensation listed, but there are some that are fairly
priced.
Directories
Advertising Age
A long time
fixture in the advertising industry, Advertising Age Magazine provides an
online directory of Advertising agencies with links to all the agencies listed.
Job seekers can follow links to the company websites to follow up on job
possibilities.
Comic Art Links Directory
The Comic
Art Links Directory provided by Dragonberry not only proved a large list of
comic artists with links to their individual websites it also provides a
directory of comic book publishers with links to their sites. These sites could
be possible locations for job seekers interested in the comic industry.
Core 77 Design Directory
The Core 77
Directory is a comprehensive guide to the design firms and creative agencies.
Core77 publishes articles, videos, discussion forums, an extensive event
calendar, and a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77
provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing an
annual awards program, design competitions, lecture series, parties, and
exhibits. Its sister site, Coroflot,
focuses on designer portfolios and design jobs, and boasts a population of over
235,000 portfolios, all searchable from anywhere on the internet.
Directory of Illustration Artists Rep Index
There are
links to the websites of over 40 artist’s representatives in the Directory’s
Artist’s Rep Index. These sites not only display the work of the artists that
are represented, but many have contact information and directions on how to
submit work for consideration.
The Agent List
The Agent
List claims to be the best way to find artist agents worldwide. And although it
is primarily geared to photography reps, there are a number of reps listed that
do illustration also. The site is searchable by agent, keyword, or location.
The Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Another
Directory of artist’s representatives is DMOZ. With over 30 organizations
listed DMOZ can connect an illustrator to rep firms that may specialize in
their particular area such as storyboards. The DMOZ acronym comes from
directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name.
Folioplanet Representatives
Folioplanet.com
contains a directory of representatives as well as a list of their talent and a
link to their websites where contact info can be found.
The Yellow Pages
The Yellow
Pages is an often forgotten resource these days, and it is now accessible
online. As an example the web address below provided links to over 100 artist
representatives in the New York City area.
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