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Talent shortages are an embedded feature across the industry.” “Due to the explosion in long-form,
this has introduced new challenges in recruitment. We reckon this may have long-term effects, with streamers constantly creating more content, there is a shortage of producers etc for these jobs,” says Unit. Axis says that while “remote
working initially made recruiting easier, as the demand for artists has increased we are seeing recruitment becoming more competitive.” “Staff are in high demand,” says
Rapid/Radiant. “We have had quite a few exits over the last five months. 50% of leavers have left to return to their home country or region, and the other 50% have been head hunted. It is very hard to recruit with minimal applicants coming from job advertisement. This is causing wage rises exponentially. The industry needs to focus on training junior members of staff and promoting from within. Whilst wages should rise, the current rate of rise might become unsustainable.” Assembly Rooms offers that “more
flexibility with regard to working practices should help retain more staff,” but there’s another post-covid issue: “No junior level assistants as no one trained during the pandemic.” There is up and coming talent of
course, but it’s felt that new names are still not given enough of a chance by clients. “There are plenty of operators with skills and experience,” says Dirty Looks. “The challenge is persuading clients to give up-and-coming talent the chance they deserve. This was forced
NEEDS TO FOCUS ON TRAINING
PROMOTING FROM WITHIN
RAPID/RADIANT
JUNIOR MEMBERS OF STAFF AND
THE INDUSTRY
to happen in production, otherwise projects wouldn’t have been shot. Why can’t it happen in post?” Skilled staff shortages mean greater
competition among post houses for the talent on offer, further exacerbating the problems. Molinare points to “losing key creative talent to competitors” as an issue. Directors Cut also says “poaching is a problem!” But it’s not just rival post houses in
competition for the best staff. There are a fair few comments in the Facilities 50 responses, off the record necessarily, about producer clients and streamers poaching trained post staff to work on the production side. As one post house puts it:
“Production companies are now increasingly poaching from the post sector to obtain highly trained and experienced PPS and on-site media managers, plus staff for their own in- house facilities. This is a new drain on the sector leading to skills shortages in post houses across the board.” And Brexit hasn’t helped the
situation, says Cinesite, causing “reduced access to skilled European graduates. And talent visas are expensive, inflexible and labour- intensive.” Freefolk says that “12 months
ago I wrote about the threat and consequences of ending freedom of movement. Well, we’re now here and the impact is being felt across our industry.” Outpost VFX too says that. “Brexit continues to affect our workforce, 30% left due to Brexit” and the “UK tax incentive means EU workers don’t qualify.”
670.4M Total turnover of all respondent companies. The figure was £1.1bn in 2019
1 Cinesite delivered vfx for No Time to Die
2 Gorilla worked on Industry
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