Salaried Jobs and Freelance Gigs at TIC
Strict hiring policy
1. We ignore all academic credentials.
2. We discriminate without inhibition each way — in favor of and against — in relation only to relevant merit. Relevant merit is the only way in to TIC.
3. No slackers. (We gather this is fashionable. Not at TIC.)
4. No team players.
Content providers
TIC seeks reliable, efficient, consistent:
• Journalists
• Columnists
• Writers
• Commentators
• Analysts
• Researchers
• Databasists
• Videographers
• Documentary film-makers
• Guest experts
To produce consummately professional content within TIC’s scope and aims, for TIC’s envisaged products and platforms, for TIC’s envisaged consumer and consumee local, regional, national and international markets, on TIC subjects.
Service providers
TIC seeks:
• Website engineers.
• Social media platform engineers, to create and maintain TIC’s own social media platform, .
• Social media and other marketing and networking experts who ‘get’ TIC and its consumer and consumee markets.
• Gig-thinking organisers of big live events.
Our first CEO
If there’s one sure way to destroy a business, it’s from within, at the top. It seems to happen particularly in the multimedia sector, with certain types of CEO.
TIC seeks, and will settle only for:
• A calm, sensible, mature, thoughtful, self-contained, self-possessed, self-effacing, level-headed, unaffected, unpretentious, prudent, cultured, civilized, loyal, grounded, rigorous, relentless, rational, knowledgeable, honorable type who thinks before he speaks and with whom one can have, and wants to have, and looks forward to having, a genuine conversation. He is consistent. He inspires confidence, not trepidation. He gets things done properly, timeously, efficiently, economically, sensibly and sustainably. He will not treat TIC as his plaything or retirement fund and run it into the ground.
• A seasoned successful multimedia industry insider. He intimately knows conventional, derivative, emulative, successful, stable, steady, sustainable global multimedia. He knows exactly what to do. He will not fool around with other people’s time or money. He has learned from mistakes made by other multimedia CEOs, especially concerning fantasy projections, delusional advertising and sponsorship revenue, and obsolete business models.
• He instinctively ‘gets’ TIC holistically: he is genuinely attuned to TIC’s subject matter, products, platforms, sources, audiences, markets and potential. He is in sympathy with TIC’s ambit, aspirations and ambitions. He needs no convincing or persuading that TIC is viable, nor educating in how to proceed.
• He has no prior or current relevant association with any failed multimedia (or other) business, or with over-promising, over-raising, over-spending, over-paying, over-hiring, belated ‘cost cutting’, mass layoffs (with or without sunglasses) of folks who should never have been hired in the first place, belated ‘focusing’, more ‘focusing’, even more ‘focusing’, belated appreciation of the most elementary fundamental realities of business or any other relevant dysfunction (and when you’ve finished jacking everyone around, don’t forget those ‘values’!). He is not second-rate. He is disgusted by 21st-century business stupidity and incompetence, and viscerally repelled by the culture of the ‘pitch’, ‘projections’ and ‘teams’. He abhors ‘yes-men’.
What business in its right mind would not insist on someone like this? How could a business justify hiring anyone else? (“Of course, my dear Szrabe, but where is he? Where would one even look? Perhaps…”).
‘Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, “What were our parents thinking?’
Al Gore
