Cindy Buzby Founder/Sales and Recruiting Cindy brings with her a wealth of experience in both technology sales and creative media. After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in studio art, she relocated to Boston where she worked in the production departments of Harold Cabot Advertising, The Associated Architects design firm, and as a film editor at WSBK-Channel 38. Her sales expertise was developed in the high-technology industry working as a National Account Executive for IBM, and Apple Computer, Inc. where she helped start its direct sales division. Creativity and technology came together in her next position as Producer on an interactive, educational product for Tom Snyder Productions. She has been placing interactive and traditional media talent with clients in the Boston area since 1994. Toward carrying forward this expertise, she founded New Media Artists Agency, Inc. in 1996 which was renamed Profile Staffing, Inc. in 2004. You can email Cindy at: cindy@profilestaffing.com

Cindy Buzby is the president of New Media Artists Agency in Boston, which provides information technology and new media professionals to clients.She points to another benefit of contracting over consulting.In creatively demanding fields, such as IT and interactive media, consultants can get "burned out" on jobs and be forced to grapple with finding new job prospects."Creative and technical people are doing what they do best and they don't like sales," she says. Buzby's agency gives contractors the revenue rates they seek and passes the middle-man costs on to client companies."They get their full rate, their checks on time and marketing done for them." Healthy Growth in Both

Cindy Buzby, Founder/Sales and Recruiting cindy@profilestaffing.com

Cindy BuzbyPresident of New Media Artists Agency, Inc.Cindy places all kinds of creative talent in new, interactive media positions.Her advice to resume builders:"The really new thing for us is that we now insist that talent (read: job seekers) have Web sites that address their work.Your on-line portfolio should consist of your own personal site, along with links to work you've done for other people.You can't very well ask for a job in new media if you don't even have a site of your own," Buzby says.Along with links to past projects, a personal site should include screen captures of your on-line work, she adds."Screen captures will convey the actual look and feel of the work you did.They also allow you to point to the specific pieces of the site that represent your work."she says.At the center of your portfolio site is, of course, your resume."The great thing about an on-line resume is that it can be constantly updated.Just be sure you take advantage of that fact and keep it as current as possible," Buzby advises.

Bauman is unusual: Cindy Buzby, president of New Media Artists Agency Inc., a Weston-based placement agency that specializes in high-tech jobs, said "very, very few people" in her database of 3,000 have made such a drastic career change.Some, Buzby said, have gone back to school for additional degrees while others have taken consultant jobs at lower pay.A few have taken brick-and-mortar jobs - on a temporary basis - while they look for another high-tech position.