Important message:
The intent of this process is to establish a pool of qualified candidates for opportunities at our Montreal office.
Blindly submitting a resume without sending a video of yourself answering the questions at the bottom means an automatic denial.
Description: Spirit of an artist, mind of a samurai, heart of a video editor.
Creative ideas don’t mean jack if you don’t have the skills to back them up.
Goalcast needs a resident warrior-poet with some serious kung-fu chops in video editing, a storytelling mystic that can bring their vision of the good life to life.
Creative: Every day, you’re going to have to turn lead into gold.
We’ve got serious internet alchemy going on here in the Goalcast laboratory. We will expect you to take sourced material, sprinkle some of your magic on it, and then transform it into something entirely new and wicked.
We will expect you to breathe emotion and inspiration into any material, even if it’s grey and lifeless, and make it come alive. We expect dark-art wizardry and divine resurrections.
We expect goose bumps.
You will need to break a puzzle apart in the morning, and make a better one by close of the business day, using only half the pieces and with one arm tied behind your back.
Vision: Must have fully-developed third-eye x-ray heat vision
That vision must be powerful enough to punch through walls and laser your idea from inception to execution, cutting through all the stages of video-making.
From the moment you read a script, you will be asked to conceive and communicate a clear and authentic vision for your work.
Harnessing and honing this superpower will be pivotal in the success of your video and therefore, the success of the company.
High EQ: Heartless robots need not apply.
Emotion is the main currency we traffic in at Goalcast, and is the single most important aspect of our videos.
You need to know: what human emotion is; how to identify different types of human emotions; how to amplify those human emotions effectively.
We need you to dig deep inside yourself and hit that wellspring of emotion, and then let it seep into your work, giving it life and soul.
Storyteller: Goalcast doesn’t do comic books or fluffy cat videos, we do real life.
And what we do best is tell moving stories about the human condition.
Blending a mix of narrative elements, productions aesthetics, stock images and music, you will spellbind our viewers captive, keep them on the edge of their seats, make them laugh, make them weep.
With power and poignancy, you need to craft real human stories through your work.
Detail-oriented: The sharp eyes of an eagle, the nimble fingers of a heart surgeon and the unrelenting drive towards amazing blockbuster standards of technical excellence; all day, every day.
All the world is our stage, and your work will be scrutinized by hundreds of millions of viewers every month.
We want you to indulge your disciplined obsession over the technical and aesthetic details that no one else remembers to pay attention to.
From color balancing to sound editing, every aspect has to be perfect, and - when it comes to paying attention to details - so should you.
Receptive to feedback: Leave your personal feelings outside the ring.
Slings and arrows should bounce off your thick skin. You should be able to brush it off and rebound in a heartbeat.
You have to be VERY receptive to feedback because every day, your work will be ripped apart - thoughtfully, with kindness and constructive criticism - by our savage team of hungry critics.
You will be called to account. You will face criticism for your work everyday. You will be asked to rework seemingly insignificant details. You will frequently be told to start over. You will prevail.
Self-driven: A disciplined monk. A ninja with a mission. Like Liam Neeson in those Taken movies.
Your motivation and drive lives inside you, right beside your heart. Your life’s work is to do better work. Your expectations of your own work should beat the crap out of our expectations of your work.
Music: Has a song ever made you cry before? Good.
Has a music video ever made you cry? Even better.
A major component of our success revolves around the power of music. You should understand basic song structures and how to match them with the right visuals, delivering maximum emotional impact.
Avid learner: Every day you’re hustlin’.
If you’re not striving to become a better person and motivating others to do the same, then stay at your ho-hum jobby job and see you on the flip.
Get it Done Attitude: Do you like soul food?
Making the impossible possible is your daily breakfast. For lunch, you usually chow down on a huge, delicious buffet of optimism. At suppertime, you gorge yourself on excitement and resilience and gratitude and humility, because you need complex fuels for the new challenges we face every week.
Other Needs/Wants: What you got?
That you be tech savviness is a given (proficient on Adobe Premiere & Adobe After Effects) and being social media savvy is A+++.
We are a leading Internet content creator, so you should have a solid understanding of social media content and how it differs on each social platform.
Sounds like you?
We love collaboration, desire and commitment - so we’ve built our team that way. To join and grow with the world’s largest community of achievers, please include your responses to the below questions with your cover letter and resume.
QUESTIONS: (Please film yourself answering these, upload to YouTube or to a Google Drive and include the link in your application if you want to be considered.)
1. What intrigues you about this opportunity?
2. What do you think could be improved in our content? How would you change that?
3. What do you think makes content go viral on A) Youtube B) Instagram C) Facebook
4. Tell us about a time when you've failed big time in a project or job.
5. Describe a movie you really love and why.