Industry Relations Representative

About the role

The Los Angeles Film School is seeking a relationship-driven entertainment recruiter or talent professional who can connect promising students and graduates with studios, production companies, agencies, post-production partners, and other employers across the evolving entertainment marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Entertainment Recruiting and Employer Development
  • Build, maintain, and expand relationships with entertainment industry recruiters, hiring managers, production executives, department heads, producers, showrunners, creative executives, studio representatives, agencies, management companies, production vendors, and workforce partners.
  • Develop relationships with studios, networks, streaming platforms, production companies, post-production facilities, animation and visual-effects companies, game studios, digital media companies, creative agencies, creator-economy organizations, and other entertainment employers.
  • Conduct consistent, consultative outreach to understand employers’ current and anticipated talent needs.
  • Identify entry-level and early-career opportunities, including assistant positions, production roles, internships, apprenticeships, project-based assignments, freelance work, contract opportunities, and other appropriate career pathways.
  • Translate employer needs into clear candidate profiles, including required skills, experience, portfolio expectations, availability, workplace readiness, and professional attributes.
  • Build employer-specific talent pipelines aligned with LAFS programs, graduate capabilities, and current market demand.
  • Re-engage previous employers and industry partners to create recurring hiring relationships rather than one-time transactions.
  • Identify opportunities for preferred recruiting relationships, employer showcases, portfolio reviews, hiring events, talent-access programs, and direct recruiting pipelines.
  • Maintain relationships with professional associations, guilds, workforce-development organizations, veteran-serving organizations, community partners, and organizations that expand access to entertainment careers.
• Talent Matching and Candidate Advocacy
  • Partner with Career Advisors and program teams to identify qualified students and graduates for relevant employer opportunities.
  • Conduct recruiter-style candidate intake conversations to understand each individual’s skills, experience, interests, portfolio, availability, work preferences, and career goals.
  • Evaluate candidate readiness against employer requirements and provide clear, respectful, and actionable feedback.
  • Develop curated candidate slates and submit qualified candidates with appropriate context and documented authorization.
  • Help students and graduates articulate their experience, transferable skills, creative strengths, technical capabilities, and professional value.
  • Prepare candidates for employer conversations by providing insight into the organization, opportunity, hiring process, professional expectations, and interview format.
  • Coordinate introductions, resume and portfolio submissions, interviews, employer feedback, and follow-up communications.
  • Maintain an equitable, job-related, and consistently documented referral process.
  • Serve as a supportive candidate advocate while maintaining honesty and credibility with employers regarding candidate qualifications and readiness.
  • Ensure students and graduates understand that Career Development provides employment assistance and access to opportunities but cannot promise or guarantee employment.
• Career Readiness and Recruiter-Based Coaching
  • Provide practical career coaching informed by current entertainment recruiting and hiring practices.
  • Support students and graduates with resumes, portfolios, reels, LinkedIn profiles, professional biographies, interview preparation, networking strategies, follow-up communication, and job-search planning.
  • Coach candidates on entertainment workplace expectations, including communication, reliability, responsiveness, professional etiquette, confidentiality, collaboration, and reputation management.
  • Help candidates understand project-based, freelance, contract, episodic, and production-based employment models.
  • Provide realistic guidance regarding entry points, career progression, transferable experience, compensation conversations, and the competitive nature of entertainment hiring.
  • Partner with Career Advisors and academic leaders to identify recurring readiness gaps and develop targeted workshops, resources, or interventions.
• Industry Programming and Community Engagement
  • Recruit entertainment professionals to participate in career panels, workshops, portfolio reviews, employer information sessions, guest presentations, recruiting events, and networking programs.
  • Create industry programs that provide students and graduates with authentic access to recruiters, hiring managers, alumni, and working professionals.
  • Support employer-facing and student-facing events from initial outreach through execution and follow-up.
  • Represent Career Development at Open Houses, graduation ceremonies, screenings, showcases, industry conferences, networking events, employer meetings, and campus programs.
  • Develop a positive, welcoming experience for visiting employers and industry partners.
  • Maintain ongoing relationships with speakers, panelists, and participating employers after each event.
  • Partner with academic departments to evaluate and coordinate appropriate internship and industry-engagement opportunities.
• Market Intelligence and Internal Partnership
  • Monitor entertainment hiring trends, production activity, emerging job categories, required technical skills, recruiting practices, and workforce changes.
  • Share relevant hiring intelligence with Career Development, Education, program leadership, alumni relations, and other internal stakeholders.
  • Gather structured employer feedback regarding candidate readiness, portfolios, technical competencies, communication skills, and professional expectations.
  • Help translate employer feedback into recommendations that strengthen career preparation and curriculum-to-career alignment.
  • Collaborate across departments while maintaining appropriate boundaries between Career Development, Admissions, Education, Marketing, and other institutional functions.
  • Contribute to continuous-improvement initiatives that strengthen the student and graduate career experience.
• Employment Documentation, Data Integrity, and Compliance
  • Maintain accurate and timely records of employer outreach, hiring needs, job leads, candidate referrals, employer feedback, interviews, offers, employment outcomes, and industry engagement.
  • Update employer, candidate, opportunity, and placement information in Salesforce and other approved institutional systems.
  • Maintain documentation that is clear, consistent, auditable, and sufficient to support institutional, ACCSC, BPPE, and other applicable reporting requirements.
  • Follow approved institutional definitions and procedures when documenting whether employment is related to a graduate’s program of study or considered employment in the field.
  • Obtain and maintain appropriate employment-verification documentation, including relevant employer, position, duties, dates, employment status, and other required information.
  • Appropriately document freelance, self-employed, project-based, concurrent, contract, and gig-economy employment in accordance with institutional and regulatory requirements.
  • Support ACCSC Graduation and Employment reporting, BPPE Annual Report and School Performance Fact Sheet reporting, internal audits, accreditation reviews, site visits, and third-party employment-verification activities.
  • Present employment opportunities, career outcomes, employer relationships, and placement information accurately and without misleading, exaggerated, or unsubstantiated claims.
  • Protect confidential student, graduate, employer, and institutional information.
  • Obtain and document appropriate student or graduate authorization before sharing resumes, portfolios, contact information, or other personally identifiable information with external employers.
  • Use only institutionally approved systems and communication channels when maintaining student and graduate records.
  • Escalate uncertain employment classifications, reporting questions, data discrepancies, or compliance concerns to Career Development leadership rather than making unsupported determinations.
• Non-Essential Duties
  • Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional experience in entertainment recruiting or talent acquisition; creative or production staffing; studio, network, streaming, or production-company recruiting; agency or management-company talent operations; executive search or staffing within entertainment or media; or employer relations, business development, partnerships, or career development.
• Demonstrated experience building trusted relationships with hiring managers, recruiters, executives, candidates, clients, or industry partners.
• Working knowledge of entertainment industry hiring practices and career pathways.
• Understanding of film, television, streaming, digital media, production, post-production, or related entertainment sectors.
• Experience sourcing, assessing, presenting, coaching, or preparing candidates for professional opportunities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a natural ability to connect with people from varied professional and personal backgrounds.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and consultative communication skills.
• High emotional intelligence, discretion, credibility, and professional judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of relationships, follow-up activities, projects, and competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accurate documentation and data integrity.
• Ability to communicate candidly and compassionately when a candidate is not yet ready for a particular opportunity.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across a complex organization.
• Proficiency with CRM, applicant-tracking, recruiting, or relationship-management systems.
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Microsoft Office, presentation tools, and Mac or PC platforms, or the ability to learn these systems quickly.
• Ability to attend occasional evening and weekend events and travel locally within the Los Angeles entertainment community.

Skills

• Authentic relationship building
• Employer engagement and business development
• Candidate advocacy
• Professional networking
• Inclusive and equitable talent practices
• Strategic outreach and disciplined follow-through
• Confidentiality and professional judgment
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Student-centered service
• Consultative recruiting
• Talent assessment and candidate matching
• Entertainment industry credibility
• Emotional intelligence and active listening
• Career coaching and candid feedback
• Data accuracy and documentation
• Event facilitation and public representation
• Market awareness and curiosity

Key Performance Indicators

• Growth in active, meaningful entertainment employer relationships.
• Expansion of qualified job, internship, apprenticeship, freelance, contract, and early-career opportunities.
• Development of recurring employer partnerships and hiring pipelines.
• Quality and relevance of candidate referrals.
• Responsiveness and satisfaction of employers, students, graduates, and internal partners.
• Timely follow-up with employers and candidates throughout the recruiting process.
• Accurate and complete documentation of employer activity, referrals, employment outcomes, and verification.
• Successful industry