How do you land a gig for an in-house team? I'm assuming Netflix or Hulu (please correct me if I'm wrong) has their own creative team for their socials and other 360s. How does one make connections with people in these teams and make their way in?

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I work for an in-house team at a tech company.

When there’s an open role, they post those to LinkedIn and other job platforms, just like everybody else.

But open full-time roles are pretty rare. Once people get in, they don’t leave very often. Or lately, they are cut in layoffs and obviously those roles aren’t backfilled, so you don’t see a job posting.

Like anything, there’s luck involved. Have a great book and be prepared when the role is posted.

I don’t personally believe in cold messaging on LinkedIn – maybe there’s a long game there and it’s a blind spot for me, but you also have to be ready to apply cold when the opportunity comes up.

I will say, I got in during the hot job market in 2021. I wonder if I would have been able to in a leaner market. Maybe not. So you might have to wait for the market to get better – there tends to be more open positions because creatives are jumping around more. And internal creative teams are happier to take a chance on someone, rather than sifting through 1,000 applicants trying to find the perfect unicorn.

Right now, nobody is leaving their jobs because the market sucks and it feels risky.

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Optimize your LinkedIn profile and other professional platforms to highlight your expertise in whatever role you're hoping to land in the company. Really focus on tailoring it to align with the values and culture of the company you’re targeting, and then hope for the LinkedIn and cold-emailing gods to be on your side.

Try to already be working at one of those places, that seems to be the most helpful

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