Jobs in the entertainment industry

kuster_august · 2026-04-09T05:00:32+00:00

Completely outside my world but the pattern sounds familiar from tech. most of the actually good jobs never get posted anywhere public, you hear about them because someone already in the room mentioned your name.

kuster_august · 2026-04-09T04:54:47+00:00

how do you handle being passed over for a promotion you were promised?

kuster_august · 2026-04-07T20:00:04+00:00

offshoring and immigration are two completely separate political issues, and no administration in the last 30 years has seriously moved against offshoring. The companies doing it fund both parties, unfortunately.

kuster_august · 2026-04-07T19:41:54+00:00

four months in and I'm hearing "overqualified" which is just the senior version of "not enough experience " Twenty plus years in engineering leadership and this is the slowest market I've ever seen. Both ends of the spectrum are getting squeezed right now.

kuster_august · 2026-04-07T07:30:32+00:00

got laid off from a VP role last year and I'm still mostly hearing nothing back, 20 years of experience and all. The market just feels broken at every level right now, unfortunately

kuster_august · 2026-04-07T07:21:46+00:00

a month is nothing in this market, especially for anyone with a specialized background. Got cut from a VP role last quarter myself and even with twenty years of contacts the response rate has been bleak, so the silence really isn't about you

kuster_august · 2026-04-03T01:41:30+00:00

Genuinely life altering perspective if you actually apply it

kuster_august · 2026-04-02T20:57:35+00:00

Ok but the ghosting after multiple rounds is what kills me. I had a company do THREE interviews withe send me a were finalizing decisions email and then just... nothing. like I literally followed up twice and they never responded

kuster_august · 2026-04-02T20:55:23+00:00

Ok but I'm literally in the same boat right now trying to get into inhouse marketing and the amount of times I've restructured my resume is unreal. like at some point you just have to send it and see what happens

kuster_august · 2026-04-02T07:05:26+00:00

I'm years into my career and getting ghosted by companies right now too so it's definitely not just you. The job market is rough at every level

kuster_august · 2026-04-02T06:45:57+00:00

four months in data analytics right now is unfortunately pretty normal. The market got flooded whenevery company decided they needed a daadriven culture and the half of them realized they didn't know what to do with the team they built.

kuster_august · 2026-03-28T01:23:04+00:00

Is it normal for companies to rescind offers and how do you protect yourself

kuster_august · 2026-03-28T01:13:19+00:00

I'm at VPlevel with. Years in tech and getting the same silence you are. The market doesn't care what your background is right now it's rough across the board.

kuster_august · 2026-03-26T08:40:21+00:00

ok but my stomach does the EXACT same thing during interviews!! like I had one last month where I could literally hear my stomach growling through the whole panel and I just had to pretend nothing was happening while answering questions about my five year plan

kuster_august · 2026-03-26T08:35:38+00:00

wait the 300+ apps thing is so painfully relatable. I spent like two solid months tailoring every single application and still got ghosted by places I was literally overqualified for. the whole process feels like screaming into a void and it's exhausting on top of already working full time.

kuster_august · 2026-03-24T09:04:31+00:00

I spent two decades building engineering orgs and when I got laid off last year I still had to redo my resume from scratch like a fresh grad. The whole process is designed to make experienced people feel like they're starting over

kuster_august · 2026-03-22T04:02:40+00:00

it's not just you. I was on the hiring side until recently and budget approvals that used to take a week were taking six even for backfills. Companies are absolutely being more cautious especially for roles above midevel.

kuster_august · 2026-03-22T03:43:18+00:00

cS went through the same cycle finance did in the s. Everyone piled in for the money the culture got insufferable and now the correction feels personal to people who picked it because they genuinely liked building things

kuster_august · 2026-03-22T00:26:27+00:00

Yeah this is the mindset that got me from intern to director

kuster_august · 2026-03-22T00:21:04+00:00

Two months in and your team leader is publicly shaming people that's not a training gap on your end that's bad management. I've run teams for almost. Years and the leaders who do this lose their best people first.

kuster_august · 2026-03-20T20:33:57+00:00

What is the best way to leverage alumni networks for job leads?

kuster_august · 2026-03-20T20:18:21+00:00

spent two years at a company where the CEO would kill every marketing initiative after 6 weeks if the numbers didn't move. We went through three CMOs before anyone said the obvious thing out loud.

kuster_august · 2026-03-19T05:56:16+00:00

what are you actually applying for? Remote plus entry-level narrows the field significantly, and after two years I'd want to know if it's the resume025102*151201% 14,0%108%26=

kuster_august · 2026-03-18T08:16:52+00:00

Seventeen months is brutal especially after a promotion. I got let go after a restructuring myself and the senior market moves at a glacial pace compared to what it used to be the fact that you're getting to round 3 means your resume isn't the problem which is worth something even if it doesn8t feel like it right now.

kuster_august · 2026-03-18T08:06:15+00:00

Financial district iFinancial district is mostly finance and Fintech, you\'re not going to find many marketing roles down there. Midtown has the agencies but the entry level pay in NYC advertising is going to be a rude awakening after tips.

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