From Intern to Dream Job: What I Look For When Hiring New Talent

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

At the starting point of our creative journey, we make choices that will either drive us toward what we want or drive us away from it. At the time, we might not even realize what’s driving us. We think outside forces play a bigger role than internal determination and intuition, which in the end is the reason we arrive anywhere.

Norton Zanini is a Florida-based photographer and creative entrepreneur who left his home in Brazil at the age of 17 to come to the US to pursue his passion in photography and film. With no money, education, experience, or prospects, he shares how he turned his dream into a reality.

What he did, got him noticed and an opportunity he needed to break-in. But it was not easy, and it certainly wasn’t overnight. Norton started at my photography studio as an intern over a dozen years ago and has been working with me ever since. He grew his career from intern, to production assistant, to studio manager, to content creator.

Norton's story reminds us there's no competition to persistance, perserverance, and diving in with your whole heart.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Like that same goes, it's hard to beat someone that never quits.
0:05.3	So like beat that person where you, you get beaten down, but you get up and then you do it again or you try the next door.
0:16.2	And if a door closes, there's a window that opens.
0:19.0	If the window closes, you know, there's another window that opens if the window closes you know there's another door
0:21.9	that opens and uh and um continue uh you know the battling the the struggles with uh
0:33.5	gratitude for where you are and knowing that you are capable of going to where you want to be.
0:41.3	Well, you heard that lovely, charming voice was from Norton Zanini.
0:47.6	And Norton, this is a, I shared with you earlier, this is an experimental part of the podcast
0:53.2	where we are bringing on some new formats.
0:56.5	In this format, of course, it is a guest format. So in that way, it's similar to previous recordings.
1:00.7	But today's guest is a person I deeply admire and I admire him for a number of reasons, not the least of which.
1:08.6	And I would say the rationale for having on the show is
1:11.4	Norton Zanee has been a long-time employee for more than a decade, let's call it 15 years.
1:17.8	And he first had a dream of making films and videos while as a young boy in Brazil and
1:26.0	left his home at age 16 or 17, moved to Florida,
1:32.0	worked as a dishwasher, saved up enough money to move across the country to Seattle,
1:36.5	where he applied for a job at my studio.
1:40.3	I'm going to say numerous times, and I think it's somewhere between five and ten times,
1:45.7	and to finally get a break, get in the door as a contractor, then as a intern, a part-time employee,
1:52.4	and has been a full-time employee for a long time.
1:55.1	So this is a story of finding out what you want to do in this life and being willing to do lots of different things
2:04.7	play through a bunch of hard stuff.
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