August 29, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

fpsmagazine.com selects CreativeHeads.net to power their job board

El Segundo, California, USA—fpsmagazine.com, the website of Frames Per Second magazine, has selected CreativeHeads.net to power their job board. Over 600+ postings—AND GROWING—from 100+ video game, animation & visual f/x, 3D technology and software tools companies are now listed! Companies posting jobs include such industry leaders as Activision, Adobe, Autodesk, Blue Sky Studios, Climax, Digital Domain, Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Electronic Arts, Insomniac, Midway, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Tippett Studio.

"Since its inception, Frames Per Second has had particular appeal to student and professional animators," said Emru Townsend, founding editor and publisher. "By partnering with CreativeHeads.net to integrate their comprehensive job board into fpsmagazine.com, our readers will be just one click away from top jobs in animation, visual effects, video game and related industries."

CreativeHeads is more than just a job board, it is a revolutionary piece of software that organizes, aggregates and simplifies the process of matching talent to opportunity for both employers and jobseekers. It provides employers with access to a detailed database of jobseekers from multiple creative content industries, as well as a powerful applicant tracking system. "Right Brain" jobseekers have access to jobs and projects in three highly specialized industries: video games, animation & visual FX, and 3D technology & software tools. CreativeHeads also allows a jobseeker to track their applications from a single interface. This aggregation provides candidates with greater access to job opportunities and expanded visibility across multiple creative content industries.

CreativeHeads launched in July partnering with ACM SIGGRAPH and The Art Institutes to offer FREE, online recruitment to exhibitors and job fair companies at the 2005 SIGGRAPH conference. ACM Siggraph and The Art Insitutes join a growing number of companies from the interactive entertainment, animation and visual effects industries—including Arena.Net, Climax, Disney Feature Animation, High Moon, Pandemic and Sony Pictures Imageworks—that have chosen to make CreativeHeads.net a central part of their talent recruitment strategies. These companies recognize that the proliferation of digital entertainment mediums and platforms is causing a shortage of qualified candidates, and making it increasingly difficult for studios to find top talent. They also believe the current state of recruitment is highly inefficient, ineffective and expensive, and are willing to work towards changing the paradigm.

CreativeHeads.net was designed in response to this new business reality. The software breaks down the silos among these creative content industries, provides companies with access to a much larger aggregated talent pool and gives them the ability to rapidly identify the right brains for their jobs. CreativeHeads was built to provide companies with a highly economical, effective tool that streamlines staffing, lowers hiring costs and helps grow their business.

CreativeHeads also addresses inefficiencies in applicant tracking systems (ATS). Currently, companies in the same industry use different systems to collect the same data from the same talent pool. CreativeHeads has been customized by industry, then occupation, allowing companies the opportunity to collect valuable, searchable data from a jobseeker's electronic application.

For example, a candidate looking for a job in the creative content industries may be required to complete 20 profiles for 20 different ATS systems used by 20 different companies. This duplication of effort is extremely laborious and inefficient for the jobseeker, which may in turn discourage them from applying to one or all of these positions. The fact is most or all of these 20 companies are interested in collecting the same candidate data. With a customized and standardized solution like CreativeHeads a jobseeker could instead complete a single profile for submission to all 20 companies.

So, no matter where an employment opportunity is posted (e.g. CreativeHeads.net, affiliate network, corporate job boards, Monster.com, etc.) CreativeHeads' technology collects the data in a standard way for a specific industry and occupation, improving a partner company's data collection while generating a massive, highly searchable database of specific talent. With hundreds of game companies, animation houses, and effects studios all collecting applicant data in a uniform way, it will create a searchable talent database that exceeds existing talent pools by orders of magnitude and allow employers to realize tremendous economies of scale.

To view the full list of open positions, visit fpsmagazine.com and click "Careers" in the menu. For additional information about CreativeHeads.net or to join the community go to www.creativeheads.net.

About CreativeHeads.net
El Segundo, CA-based CreativeHeads.net is a revolutionary new software company dedicated to bringing the brightest creative minds from the Video Game, Animation & Visual F/X, and 3D Technology & Software Tools industries together with the best creative content companies in the world. Our primary objectives are to provide employers with a highly economical, effective tool that streamlines their staffing and recruitment process, and also offer jobseekers access to job opportunities across multiple creative content industries. CreativeHeads.net is a conduit that will facilitate communication and the rapid exchange of information between employers and jobseekers. Our mission is to allow people to be as creative in their career and business choices as they are in their work!

About fpsmagazine.com
Frames Per Second (www.fpsmagazine.com) continues its tradition of articulate and insightful analyses of animation in all its forms, both in a free online magazine and on its website. The site features news, features, commentary, festival overviews, reviews, a treasure trove of links, a list of animation releases and books of interest, and the fps store.