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Staffing Season—How Agents Help Clients Get Hired

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“You always hear stories that things can abruptly end,” says Jessica Kaminsky, “but you never really understand it until it happens to you.” Kaminsky was unemployed. Which, to be fair, is not unusual, especially for TV writers. Every year, numerous TV shows get canceled midway through their runs, casting all of their writers, producers, actors, designers, editors, accountants, crew members, and assistants into the unemployment line. Kaminsky knew this, of course, but it didn’t lessen the pain.

She had always dreamed of being a writer–first a playwright, then a TV writer–and after spending years ...

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