Design and market Week 18 Team Meeting

On 9 February 2012 our team got together. We discussed questions, strategy for London trip and delegated tasks.

Final question list 

 
Employment:

 

• How do you recruit your talent
• What is the usual entry road into the company
• Do you do everything in house, do you have freelancers/outside brother company
• Special things that make candidates stand out/recruiters look for?
• Do you have a high turnover of staff?
• Do you run any competitions/initiatives for young people?
• Do you have any universities that you get a lot of staff from?
• What advice would you wish to be given when you were starting in the industry?
• How does the pay work? Is it a salary or are you paid per job?
• Because you’re all in the same area, do you find staff move between companies?
• Does this create competition?
• How do you employ? contract/hour/project/freelancers

 Personal Questions

• how did get involved in the company
• do you enjoy your job and what’s your favourite part of the job ?
• What is your typical day? What are the hours like? Do you take work home
• Why have you changed your employment profile/path?
• Are you allowed to do something outside company/ do u have time for Freelance or personal projects
• Do u have time for social life

Client related/advertise/

• How do you market yourself /advertise
• Who are your clients?
• How do you develop relationship with the clients
• Do clients tend to come back? How do you sustain your relationship with them
• Do you knock people back, Do you have so much work that you have to reject customers
• Do you take small commissions or do you just work on big projects

Company itself

• How the structure of the company looks like
• How company was created/What is the history of the company
• What is the official company status (stock shares etc.)
• Are there any values that you particularity believe in
• What makes you different from competitors, what is your USP
• What are your plans for the future, plans for growth ?
• what are the aims of the company
• How many people do you employ
• Are different areas of the company encouraged to mingle
• Do you collaborate with other companies
• How do you network in industry
• What is your approach to the training, How do you respond to new technologies
• Do you train your staff
• What is % of females in the company? Is it family friendly?

VFX

•   Can you say that in VFX industry you can talk about niche? If yes, do u have one
• Can you run individual VFX business
• What sort of amount of money you need to invest to start up VFX company
• Do you have any deals with the software companies?

Additional :

• Is it nice to see your work/company work on the telly?!
• Is there a dress code?
• Do u have a lot of parties
• Do u do charity work
• How often do you hear cursing from behind the computer screens
• what is the pay like
• what was the biggest company “fuckup”

Roles

Sarah: consent forms, emailing tutors
Daniel: introduction leading the interview
Charlie: presentation, maps 
Jo: equipment

All of us decided to research professional profiles of our interviewees and gather as much information as possible. Linked in seems to be a fantastic tool for it.