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Overview

FuseFX is currently looking for a contract VFX Recruiter with industry experience that is ready to join our team ASAP through June 2019. Candidate must be familiar with the Los Angeles, New York or Vancouver VFX markets and able to work in one of those offices.

The successful candidate will be required to manage the full recruitment life cycle from job posting and advertisements, managing in-coming applications, head-hunting, networking and seeking referrals and references. The role will also be responsible for maintaining and growing our current network of artists and post-production professionals by proactively searching, screening and continuously mapping out potential talent in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Be the key point of contact for specific position for external candidates into the LA, NY, and Vancouver studios
  • Ensure that the FuseFX brand is appropriately managed and represented to candidates
  • Utilize social networking, job boards, referrals and our internal network to source and headhunt prospective talent
  • Build and maintain relationships with prospective talent in order to establish networks in the industry to meet current and future hiring needs
  • Adhere to current recruiting practices, policies and systems to ensure a pool of eligible candidates are available to fill both staff and project based positions in a short turn around
  • Maintain constant communication with production management, department managers, supervisors, and HR to understand immediate and future hiring requirements and priorities
  • Able to prepare offers which meet candidate and company expectations, and align the skill level to the correct salary band/job, in line with budgets
  • Work with managers and HR to ensure job descriptions, contracts and other supporting documents are up to date and generated within a timely manner
  • Support the recruiting function and process that includes: scheduling interviews, organizing candidate travel, preparing offer letters, processing employee referrals, and completing reference and background checks
  • Act as liaison between all temporary agencies and managers. Responsible for phone screens of potential temp candidates as well as on-boarding logistics
  • Assist HR team in special projects as required
  • Maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times

Requirements:

  • College degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Psychology, Sociology, Communications or related field preferred
  • Previous experience in Visual Effects, Animation, or CG recruiting is required
  • Strong understanding of VFX principles, techniques, and tools is required
  • Prior experience with Vancouver and/ or New York artist recruiting, while not required, is a welcome addition
  • Solid experience of the recruitment life cycle and solutions to hire creative candidates
  • Demonstrates the ability to build relationships both internally and externally with a customer-focused approach
  • Has a basic working knowledge of legal and immigration requirements that affect recruitment
  • Is pro-active with a drive and determination to get things done positively and with enthusiasm
  • Excellent attention to detail and pride in the quality of their work
  • A self-starter with the ability to handle several projects at once with excellent planning and organizing skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • The ability to cope under pressure in a changing environment
  • Strong computer skills with proficiency working in Filemaker, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

No phone calls please.  Principles Only.

Please apply at: https://fusefx.com/jobs/vfx-recruiter-contract/

About FuseFX-BC

FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects studio that provides visual effects services for film, television, commercials, games, and special venues.

FuseFX has emerged as a leader in Visual Effects for episodic television, as well as increasing work on commercials and feature film productions. FuseFX has over 100 employees at their flagship office in Los Angeles, along with offices in New York City and Vancouver, Canada.

FuseFX BC was established in 2014 to serve Vancouver’s burgeoning film and television production community. Led by Jon Cowley, the team combines a boutique mindset with the industry’s most efficient pipeline and an ability to work seamlessly and nimbly as an extension of the company’s Los Angeles and New York studios. The results are visuals of outstanding quality and imagination, delivered on time and on budget.

FuseFX has developed a proprietary, highly efficient pipeline. This process differentiates the company from others in the business and allows for better quality control, faster turn around of shots, allows the artists to focus on the creativity of visual effects. The company has assembled a highly experienced team of artists, supervisors, and producers with a broad range of experience in all aspects of Visual Effects. The quality of the staff also differentiates FuseFX from its competitors.

Today, FuseFX’s three locations have over 30 television shows in production simultaneously, while also servicing various commercial and feature film projects. The company has exclusively provided Visual Effects for all the major studios, and on such productions as American Horror Story, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Bones, Mad Men, TURN, The Blacklist, The Magicians, and many others.

FuseFX was founded by David Altenau in 2006 and initially provided visual effects for a few network episodic productions. In 2008, Tim Jacobsen and Jason Fotter joined the company as partners and contributed to significant expansion, opening new offices in Burbank, and adding infrastructure and personnel to service multiple major episodic television programs as well as feature films and commercials. In 2014, FuseFX opened new offices in New York and Vancouver to service local clients in those markets, bringing on board Greg Anderson and Jon Cowley, respectively to head those operations and build teams dedicated to FuseFX’s mission to provide stellar visual effects.

As a philosophy, the principals at FuseFX believe that Visual Effects offer an amazing ability to go beyond the limits of what practical production can accomplish. We strive to work with our clients to create a vision and story that could not otherwise be accomplished without the tools and talents FuseFX offers.