Job Overview

Model Agency Booker.

Duties and Responsibilities

The booker is on hand in the office to organise and deal with models. This includes informing them about casting (model job interview), jobs and shows. The booker must make sure the models have the right information and to attend on time. It also involves having a personal touch and excellent communication skills to deal with models.

On the other hand the candidate must be good with clients. This involves excellent communication skills, customer service and also sourcing new clients. Also invoicing clients and sorting out payments.

The role is full time and working hours are flexible but the opportunity is there for the correct individual to create a name for themselves within the industry. As the opportunity is office based you will be required to work from the office with regards planning etc.

This could be a great opportunity for the candidate to work within a growing company and also later manage the agency.

Skills / Qualifications / Experience Required

Good customer service
– Manage people and communication skills
– Good telephone skills
– Basic Word processing and IT knowledge
– Good Telephone manners
– Able to source clients
– Office management
– Able to work alone and take incentives
– Good decision maker
– Experience from: Recruitment Industry, Fashion Industry, Model Industry.

A booker is basically a sales person … who’s got a “book” of models who are signed with the agency. They promote their models to prospective clients … by knowing who is casting for ads and commercials, etc. and sending out the models’ marketing materials … comp cards, and if requested, their portfolios. A booker needs to have a huge “rollodex” with lots of contacts in the fashion and commercial industry. If one or more of that booker’s models are hired for the gig, the agency gets paid a percentage, typically about 20% of the billed amount for the models’ work, from both the client and the model.

In order to do this effecitvely, a booker has a variety of responsibilities.

First the booker must find and select models to represent … models that meet the typical client requests. So they need to understand the market that they work in and be sensitive to clients’ shifts in what they usually need. They must have strong models with the right looks for the market, but not too many of any “type” … so they don’t compete against each other.

Models are usually found by holding open calls, often held for a couple of hours every week at the booker’s office. Very few of them are ever selected … only ones that fill the booker’s current needs and the rare model who is just so strong that the booker knows that her look would get her a lot of work. Some agencies have mail in submissions only, asking for a couple of photos and the model’s stats and they call any one that they might be interested in. Very few agencies go out and scout … no need to. Aspiring models come to them in groves. People who cll themselves model scouts, are usually working a scam.

Once a model is selected, the booker and the model often sign a contract, laying out what the terms of representation are … what the commission to the agency is and whether or not the model may find work through other means or not. The model is more or less employing the agency to find her work … and in return pays them a commission.

The booker works with the newly represented model and helps her to put together a strong portfolio … making recommendations to good photographers that they know can produce the right kind of images for the booker’s market. This is done at the model’s expense … she pays the photographer directly.

The booker also has accounting duties. Any expenses that the agency incurs on beholf of the model will be charged to the model such as shipping portfolios, copies, postage, etc.

And the booker is responsible to make sure the models show up, prepared and on time to castings and gigs. Most models are still teenagers, and not always responsible. If a model fails to show, the agency stands to not only loose money but credibility. So a good booker is always aware of what is going on with the models, and always has a back up plan. He/she’s sort of a parent and a faux employer.

What I don’t know is exactly how a booker is paid, but I suspect it’s commision related … the more business heshe creates, the more pay is earned.

So … you can see that a good booker must have strong business skills, able to multitask, be skilled at networking, have a good eye for the right models, have the patience and skills to work with rookies and teenagers, and be able to sell the client on the fact that his/her models are the best for their needs.

>>> You don’t need a degree but you do need experience. Agencies are looking for someone who already has a lot of contacts with ad agencies, stylists, photographers, magazine editors, designers and others who would be looking for models.

Most bookers either started as interns/assistants working for an established booker for a few years before getting a booker job. Otherwise they sometimes come out of the fashion or PR industries or even advertising where they have previously worked with models and have a lot of contacts in the industry

Being a booker is a tough job – the base salary is very low and most of your income comes from your commission. If you can’t get a lot of high paying jobs for your models, you won’t eat. An editorial shoot for a new face might only pay $300-500 so your commission would be $30-50. But if you can book one of your models a $1 million Estee Lauder contract, you get $100K just for that one job.

We are looking for a professional people who want a progressive career and to be part of a growing, young company trying to establish itself in the industry. We need charismatic, confident, well organised and target driven individuals who have the ability to close sales. A great telephone manner is essential and a no fear attitude towards success. The majority of the role of a Booker is sales based, however you will also be expected to deal with organising Go and Sees, keeping models informed of castings, jobs and shows as well as making sure that they are on time for all appointments.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a fast paced and exciting environment within an industry that is notoriously difficult to get in to.

The Requirements:

• Excellent Communication Skills
• Exceptional Sales Ability
• Good Customer Service Skills
• Self-Motivated and results oriented driven individual
• Ability to work under pressure and manage difficult personalities in a positive way
• Proven experience within Talent, Modelling, Fashion or Recruitment Industry
• Proven ability to win new business
• Good decision maker
• Computer literate
• Exceptional presentation and Grooming Standards

Salary: good commission structure

Job Status: These positions will begin as temporary roles ad upon success will become permanent positions.

Kindly email info about your work exp and/or resume to sp.team2020@gmail.com. Please include your name, contact # and when you are willing to start. We are looking for someone right away.

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What is Model Booker all about?

Article From: Herald Sun, Henry Budd

Being a model booker calls for tactfulness and an eye for talent.

Scoop Management assistant model booker Cara Le Provost was working as a hostess on a luxury boat in the US when a brush with designer Calvin Klein made her decide to get into the fashion industry. Less than 12 months after the encounter, Le Provost has returned to Sydney after five years travelling the world and has begun her new career.

In July last year, Le Provost was working on a boat moored next to Klein’s luxury yacht. But it wasn’t Klein’s party that night that piqued her interest in fashion.

“In the morning, everybody was gone and it was him and, possibly, his wife, standing out on the jetty playing with yo-yos … and they just looked like normal people,” she says.

“It just made fashion tangible for me, it was something anyone could do and it wasn’t all about celebrities and glamour.”

As an assistant model booker Le Provost helps find and manage an array of talent.

“It starts by scouting the model,” she says. “Then we bring them in and test shoot them and get them to meet some clients. From there on my role is to assist the senior bookers with managing their careers.”

Scouting for potential models can happen anywhere, from Bondi Beach to suburban shopping malls. Le Provost says she is still training her eye to spot male models with that special something.

“You can see a 16-year-old surfie guy and know he is going to be perfect for a Dolly shoot and we can pick out certain people for magazines and clients.”

Turning away people is heartbreaking, Le Provost says.

“It is painstaking to explain why they are not right, especially if it is something they have wanted to do for a long time,” she says.

After returning to Australia, Le Provost enrolled at FBI Fashion College in a Certificate IV in Fashion Business. The college was important in helping her land the job at Scoop, despite only being a few months into her course.

“Because I was doing the Fashion Business course and because Scoop was looking for someone to get into their agency, I was recommended by FBI to go for the interview,” she says. “Somehow within four months of coming back I had this full-time job, I was just blown away by how lucky I am.”

Despite the industry’s reputation for having its share of prima donnas, Le Provost says only models who get along with photographers and clients get booked.

“I do not want people to think the fashion industry is all fighting tooth and nail and being bitchy all the way to the top,” she says.

She attributes part of her quick success to advice she received from her boss: try to be nice to people and efficient.

We are now looking for Part-time Marketing Executive to join our team.
– Online Marketing
– Offline Marketing.
– Have experience in online/offline marketing.
– No other specific requirements!
– HIGH Commission!

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We’d like to offer opportunity to those interested to learn the trade craft in modeling & entertainment industry.

– Full-time OR Part-time.
– With OR Without Experience!

Professional?
You are welcome to be part of our team

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We will teach and guide you.

Job Descriptions
– handling jobs & clients
– organizing events
– doing casting
– handling models & their profiles
– design & multimedia
– photography & choreography
– online & offline marketing.

For those who are interested, please submit your resume and photos to sp.team2020@gmail.com