This past weekend, my family and I were at the Hollywood Bowl. The occasion was a 20th anniversary celebration of Dreamworks Films. Clips from classic Dreamworks movies* were splashed across several giant screens while a live orchestra played the film score. At the beginning of the evening there was a montage of all the films with different themes like adventure, discovery, and friendship.
When the conductor, Thomas Wilkins, introduced the evening, he did a marvelous job of framing the importance of relationships as an essential element of the films. Both the relations that existed between characters on screen and the relationship between the animated movies and the film scores played by live musicians.
It got me thinking about the role of a placement firm like CalWest. At our best, I hope we're an inspirational soundtrack that is playing behind the scenes as candidates and schools connect, interview and start a professional working relationship.
How do you see (hear?) a placement firm when you think about their function in the recruiting and hiring process? What role should a placement firm play? And if a soundtrack was playing in the background right now of your mind, how would it sound and what would you be hearing?
Until next week,
Fleisch
* I must confess that my favorite Dreamworks movie made it into a few montages but didn't get the prominence I felt it deserved. Monsters vs Aliens is a classic - at least in the Fleischner household.
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