Note: Beware of fraudulent contacts or sites soliciting personal information directly through email or via third-party online platforms, including LinkedIn and Telegram. There are many job scams out there to get your personal information for nefarious purposes.
Resources for companies and ideas
- You can find trade associations at http://www.directoryofassociations.com. Trade associations have conferences, YouTube channels, often free newsletters, and sometimes job boards. You can see who speaks at their conferences and find their words and work stories on YouTube or LinkedIn.
Companies more broadly
- Use Career OneStop’s (US Dept. of Labor) Business Finder: https://www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/jobs/find-businesses.aspx (a gigantic search tool)
- BizJournal List of companies: https://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company
- Glassdoor, including company reviews: https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm
- Zippia.com, including industrial media: https://zippia.com (but do they scrape data from other sites?)
- Links to many sectors: https://www.zippia.com/arts-entertainment-sports-and-media-industry/
- Animator Jobs: https://www.zippia.com/animator-jobs/ including Day in the Life videos
- 3D Artist Jobs: https://www.zippia.com/3d-artist-jobs/
- Interactive Design Jobs: https://www.zippia.com/interactive-designer-jobs/
- Press releases sent by companies: http://www.prnewswire.com/
- Dun & Bradstreet: https://www.dnb.com/site-search-results.html
- Crunchbase for recent investments, headquarters, sectors, and articles: https://www.crunchbase.com/
- Craft.co for officers, competitors, locations, investors, etc.: https://craft.co/
- Chegg CareerMatch and search by Keyword, Company, and/or Location: https://www.careermatch.com/candidate/app/search
- Wall Street Journal Company Lists: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/company-list
- Industries in Alphabetical Order from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_alpha.htm
- Public financial statements by public companies on their websites:
- Netflix (NFLX) – $244 Bn market cap
- Disney (DIS) – $182 Bn market cap
- Comcast (CMCSA) – $172 Bn market cap (NBCUniversal, DreamWorks, cable)
- Sony (SONY) – $120 Bn market cap
- Nintendo (NTDOY) – $66 Bn market cap
- NetEase (NTES) – $46 Bn market cap (mobile & PC games, Knives Out, LIFEAFTER, Lord of the Rings)
- EA – $36 Bn market cap
- Take 2 Interactive (TTWO) – $29 Bn market cap
- Roblox (RBLX) – $28 Bn market cap
- Evolution Gaming (EVO.ST) – $26 Bn market cap
- Sea (Garena) (Singapore) – $25 Bn market cap
- Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) – $22 Bn
- Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) – $16 bn
- Fox Corp. (FOXA) – $16 Bn
- Paramount Global (PARA) – $11 Bn
- ScreenSkills.com (UK) resource on industry sectors: animation, VFX, games, post-production, broadcast engineering, creative freelancing
Mainstream Job Sites
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/entertainment-jobs/
- Indeed, including reviews and the work environment: https://www.indeed.com/companies
- ZipRecruiter: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Jobs/Arts-and-Entertainment
Creative Industry Job Sites? For each, take a clear look at who owns them and how they make money.
- AnimatedJobs (subscription to get nonadvertised jobs at $5/mo or $30/yr): https://animatedjobs.com/
- CreativeHeads (paid by employers by the month; runs SIGGAPH job sessions): https://www.creativeheads.net/
- Games Industry Business: https://jobs.gamesindustry.biz/
- Showbiz Jobs: https://www.showbizjobs.com/
- Entertainment Careers (with weekly free job alert email; membership model: $10/mo for a 24-hour headstart on listings): https://www.entertainmentcareers.net/
- Hollylist (subscription model): https://www.hollylist.com/
- Animation World Expo: Jobs (YM Careers/Community Brands): https://www.awn.com/jobs-recruiting
Conferences with Job Fairs
- SIGGRAPH, July 28-Aug 1, Denver, CO – https://s2024.siggraph.org/program/job-fair/ (Job Fair July 30/31)(Note: Companies pay $2k-$3.5k to recruit there)
- AfroAnimation Summit, April 10-12, Burbank, CA: https://afroanimation.com
- Annecy Festival 2024, June 9-15, Annecy, France: https://www.annecyfestival.com
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2024, Oct 8-11, Philadelpha: https://ghc.anitab.org/ (media, culture, tech, and women/non-binary)
- Lightbox Expo 2024, Oct 25-27, Pasadena, CA: https://lightboxexpo.com/
- https://www.animation-festivals.com
- AWN list of conferences: https://www.awn.com/events/conferences
Company Job Sites
- Walt Disney Animation: https://disneyanimation.com/interns-apprentices/ and https://jobs.disneycareers.com/category/animation-jobs/
- All Disney, including Games (in Consumer Products): https://jobs.disneycareers.com/search-jobs
- Electronic Arts: https://www.ea.com/careers and https://www.ea.com/careers/early-careers
- Warner Bros Discovery: https://careers.wbd.com/global/en and https://careers.wbd.com/global/en/wbd-internships-early-careers
- Netflix, including Games Studio and Boss Fight Entertainment hiring: https://jobs.netflix.com/
- Autodesk Fusion 360 (Utah): https://www.autodesk.com/careers/overview
- Epic Games (Carey, NC): https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/careers/jobs?lang=en-US
- Dolby: https://www.dolby.com/careers
- Blizzard Entertainment: https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/earlycareers
- Starz/Lionsgate Entertainment: https://jobs.lionsgate.com/go/View-All-Openings/8023300/
- Live Nation Entertainment: https://www.livenationentertainment.com/careers/
Industry Organizations
- XR Guild: https://xrguild.org
- VRARA: https://www.thevrara.com/
- The Animation Guild (TAG): Local 839 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), https://animationguild.org/
- Society for Animation Studies: https://v4.animationstudies.org/
- Women in Animation: https://womeninanimation.org/
- Women’s Audio Mission: https://womensaudiomission.org
- International Animated Film Society (ASIFA): https://asifa.net
- Animation World Network (AWN): https://www.awn.com
- The Computer Graphics (CG) Society: https://cgs-network.org
- California Film Commission list of guilds: https://film.ca.gov/production/associations-guilds/
- Animation in Europe: https://www.animationineurope.eu/
- American Cinema Editors: https://americancinemaeditors.org/
- Audio Engineering Society: https://aes2.org/