Salaried Jobs and Freelance Gigs at TIC
Strict hiring policy
1. We have no interest in any academic credentials.
2. We discriminate without inhibition each way — in favor of and against — in relation only to relevant net merit. Relevant net merit is the only way in to TIC.
3. No slackers. (We gather this is fashionable. Not at TIC.)
4. No team players or team mentality. There are no teams at TIC.
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, Inheritance.Social
• social media and other marketing and networking experts who ‘get’ TIC and its consumer and consumee markets
• big-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 is interesting. 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. He is not second-rate. He is disgusted by 21st-century stupidity and incompetence, and repelled by the culture of the ‘pitch’, ‘projections’ and ‘teams’. He despises sycophants, posers, fast-talkers and phoneys. He has a mind and speaks it
• 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 is stunned by elementary moral, intellectual, commercial and common-sense mistakes made by other CEOs, especially concerning fantasy projections, delusional revenue, and inappropriate business models
• he instinctively ‘gets’ TIC holistically. He is in sympathy with TIC’s ambit, aspirations and ambitions. He is genuinely attuned to TIC’s subjectmatter, products, platforms, sources, audiences, markets and potential. He needs no convincing or persuading that TIC is viable, nor educating in how to get it and keep it off the ground
• 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’ (of everything but his own package) or with mass layoffs (don’t forget the sunglasses) of talentless ballast who should never have been hired in the first place (and then the ‘focus’, ‘our core values’, the ‘who we are’, etc.)
What business in its right mind would not insist on someone like this? How could it justify hiring anyone else? (“Of course, my dear Szrabe, but where is he? Where exactly would one look? Perhaps…”)
‘Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, “What were our parents thinking?’
Al Gore
