Jane is looking for a job in video production but has been unsuccessful. The document provides 50 suggestions to help Jane find work or gain experience in the field, including starting her own company, building her portfolio through free projects, networking on LinkedIn, moving to major media markets, creating videos for social media, entering competitions, offering video services to local businesses and organizations, and getting an internship or job through contacts. It also suggests taking time off from stressing about being unemployed.

1. Solving for Jane
She wants to do video but can’t find
a job in her chosen profession

2. Ideas…
1. Start her own company
2. Do free projects to develop a professional
portfolio (beyond the school one)
3. Partner with someone who needs video work
done
4. Identify all of the video-related companies in the
region and approach them all
5. When you approach them don’t just send a
random email
6. Use LinkedIn and personal connections to get to
them so that you can talk to them

3. 7. Move to NYC
8. Move to LA
9. Find friends in the field no matter where they
are and network with them
10. Contact companies that make industrial videos
11. Ask parents for help using their networks
12. Ask friends of parents for help using their
networks
13. Make videos and post them on Vimeo and
YouTube
14. Use social media to attract viewers
15. Start a VLOG (video blog)

4. 16. Go back to school and get a masters
17. Change direction and do something else
18. Find a couple of mentors in the field and ask
for their advice
19. Pick particular themes and shoot videos:
children, parks, etc.
20. Ask what people want to see in terms of
video
21. Really do market research and see what
people watch
22. Survey potential customers and find out
what they want

5. 23. Make video as art and show it at art events
24. Do video parties like tupperware parties
25. Make funny videos like cat and dog on YouTube
26. Make sad videos
27. Make videos about everyday events
28. Film important things happening thoughout a
period of time
29. Enter video competitions
30. Contact production companies outside of your
region
31. Connect with local students and do projects
with them

6. 32. Sign up for classes at local profession
film/video school
33. Offer to shoot for the above school
34. Advertise that you are available for shoots –
flyers etc.
35. Contact local businesses and offer to do
video for them
36. Contact non profits like libraries and schools
and agencies and offer to do videos for them
37. Try to get a wedding contract or bar mitvah
38. Same as above but for another social event
like a 50th wedding anniversary

7. 39. Do underwater videos
40. Do videos in other unusual places
41. Do them for relatives
42. Go to playgrounds and offer to shoot people’s
kids playing
43. Do the same as above at dog shows, etc.
44. Do the same as above for people walking their
dogs
45. Come up with an entrepreneurial venture
around a particular need for video – online
courses for example
46. Approach media companies for an internship
47. Leverage your contacts to get into media
companies
48. Think if this is really what you want to do

8. 49. Go to the beach and don’t think about this
for a month
50. Stop stressing and enjoy being young and
without a job but with your parents
supporting you!