Here’s what makes a good talent manager and what these are the qualities they get paid for, precicely:
Building contacts:
Know people in the unscripted TV industry, keep their contact details, have good relationships with talent managers in other production companies and staff at all levels.
People skills:
Be good at spotting potential and recognising relevant experience, interviewing, listening and negotiating.
Knowledge of production:
Understand production roles, required skills, the different challenges of working in offices, studios, on location and in the edit.
Multi-tasking:
Be able to juggle recruitment for different programmes with different skill bases at various stages of production – all at the same time.
Problem solving:
Always have a plan ‘B’, find staff quickly when needed
Talent managers are responsible for the recruitment of all –
- Freelance editorial (creative) staff and sometimes,
- Production (organisational) roles.
- They have an enormous contacts book and much of their time is spent keeping track of the people in it, so if a suitable job arises in their production company, they know who’s suitable and who’s available.
- Talent managers are passionate about finding new people.
- They watch programme credits to see who’s worked on a show and if they don’t know them, will often ask to meet them.
- They meet people recommended to them by others.
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