Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to run across a potential opportunity for freelance audio editing work. Though I’ve done similar work before, I’m focusing pretty heavily on programming these days and therefore wanted to help connect a client with someone I knew would take care of them.
This happens pretty often right? Most gigs don’t happen because of a resume. Most freelance audio gigs happen because someone needed help and you were in the right place, right time.
So it astounded me when the entire process was pretty much a giant pile of failure.
I assumed (incorrectly) that I could put out an APB in my online channels and would be given good shit from my people. I assumed I would have 25+ names to sift through before providing their information to the client.
I was totally wrong. It runs both ways too – I screwed up, and my audio colleagues did too! So here’s a giant postmortem on both how to not get ideal candidates, and how to not get a gig.
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