3 posts tagged “2007”

Didier Anteneo: creativity, audacity… and a job.
I always arrive after the battle… still an engaged candidate. Didier, graphic designer experienced sought a station of in charge of communication. Mow of the candidatures without a future it took the bull by the horns, assembled two blogs (one in French and the other in English), set up of the tools in order to improve its dialogue with its readers and launched out a challenge: to leave to work in HongKong.
Result of the races: talks, and a job. In short: will, expertise, audacity… and especially the desire for testing and for exploiting to the maximum its step. Cheer!

Can you present yourself in a few words and speak to us about your professional course?
I am Didier ANTENEO, I am 35 years old, I am from Bordeaux (france) and I began my course as a GRAPHIC DESIGNER now 12 years ago. First of all in a business district; I had in load the requests for all types of communication by the customers of the companies present on the site but also of outside. This first experiment learned how to me to work quiiiiick (!) and well, on many different projects. However my HAD of Communication of the Companies out of pocket, I were not going to stop me… I progressed while acquiring more and more experiments progressively with the stations which I occupied after, in agency of council in communication or advertising agencies… Until assembling my characteristic limps in 1999, an advertising studio of creation and strategies of communication. I have an immediate success from my creativity voted by plebiscite by my customers. Working with in-house freelances, our Internet site entered + of 20.000 connections in 1 month (BCP at the time…). I thus could work with MEDIAMETRIE (multi-media) like much of others. I was not not very proud to have jointly with that, a cover media!! (article in the local daily newspaper, M6…). After this adventure more than exciting but with a cruel lack of funds to ensure perenniality of it, I integrated an agency of communication as an Artistic Director by occupying me of local and national budgets.

Which is your research today?
Today, after more than one year of search for station as DA or a cd., and not finding in spite of + of 500 mails sent (very creative and expensive in sending!) and more than 1.000 emails, I am tired of the “French system”… Of these non-responses to the letters of spontaneous candidatures, of these stoppings by secretaries “dragons” and general employment situation… I thus seek elsewhere. I expatriate. I will work in HongKong where when I send 1 e-mail I have 1 in general response in the 2 hours which follow… Or the contacts are done quickly and naturally… And where my 12 years of experiments are an ASSET over there.

You opened a blog. Since when do hold it you and why you are launched to you in this step?
I created this blog (like its “English brother”) about one year ago. I benefitted from my time “off” to increase my competences. I recovered on English level by a training course from few months, and I wanted also to launch me in the Blog step because it is a formidable tool which are used to me as window of my know-how, portfolio and surcroit easy to create, and interactive.

You have a precise leading line?
What do you speak about? How do you proceed?
In fact my blog is a window… of me! I describe my professional course there, the recruiters can see my cv with the format text but also image. With the wire of time, I would like to speak there about the topicality about my profession, graphics and communication (branding) penny a sometimes sarcastic angle. What interests me much they are the different cultures in graphics and other codes, of a European culture for example confronted with that Eastern and Asian. That you brought your blog until now (contact, network, to break insulation, exchanges, helped to formulate your project….). In fact, in order to concretize my project to work in HongKong, I created several blogs, 2 blogs “pros” one will say and 1 blog more “fun” speaking about the differences between France and HongKong. These blogs brought much professional and friendly contacts to me, they especially allowed a greater speed of contact, email > blog, direct. Lastly, thanks to the tools which I put on the blog, videoconference and others I could pass FROM the DISCUSSIONS on line live with recruiters based to HongKong! And which are the principal difficulties which you encountered at the beginning? And today? The difficulties were rather of a technical nature, namely that I wanted to personalize it a maximum and for this reason one quickly intends to speak about HTML… Nevertheless the adventure is very exciting and my strong will enabled me to progress gradually… Today that goes! What I seek of a service blog it is a multidisciplinarity of services and possibilities technical and creative.

What would you advise with somebody who would like to also launch out?
That it launches out! How it is curious! That it does it with a precise discussion thread. That it is burst with its blog! There are NO rules. No rules!

Imagine that you draw a “chart professional chance”: the work of your dreams, with the role that you wish, in the context which you like, in the sector who attract you… that that you would not leave for nothing in the world. Tell us what all that would resemble.
I do not imagine it any more! … I found it! EXACTLY! I always liked architecture; I regret not having continued studies in architecture, that's no problem I said myself that one day the ideal would be to work in a large agency of architecture, as an Artistic Director, in charge of the communication of this agency. I would thus reconcile my passion of my trade, the communication, and would be close to the projects of architecture of the agency. I have been just engaged by a VERY large agency (it is a group in fact) of architecture, building enormous buildings in the world, more particularly in China, Germany, and Dubai. They are 5th World and the seat is based… in HongKong. I leave in 7 days.

A last word with the address of the recruiters?
Be professional. And RECEIVE the contacts which call you. Answer their phone calls, their e-mails… We are… But you cannot (can) not detect us. And the escape continues… Towards the foreigner… I sent e-mail on your sites (and well of others)… Nothing. 0 contact. Then what I do not include/understand this is why in HongKong (for example) I am received by cabinets and recruiters, whom they propose to me of the stations, and whom the companies find me super creative and whom I have the embarrassment of the choice. I have the impression, by seeing the sites such as LINKEDin, OPENBC, VIADUCT etc, etc that the unemployeds (naughty word that) are a source of income which is not lost for everyone… But, it is another debate. (?)

Anteneo: creativity, audacity… and a job:
Comments :
Cheers! Quite simply convinced that the determination pays…
An example moreover for all motivating us…