>>767654Well for agencies:
- Above a threshold of emotional intelligence and stress management skills, or signs of improvement on these fronts.
- Understanding of law, particularly copyright, nondisclosure and libel
- Not too attached to their current online persona
- having a romantic partner is a infosec breach risk, even if your audience is chill with you having one.
- Distinct personality, hobbies, and capacity to adapt to the character they're assigned
- Agencies usually make a character before hiring someone to be that character
- Good infosec and cybersecurity
- Being a linux user is a desirable trait as long as you aren't annoying about it (unless being annoying about it is seen as endearing quirk for your character to have)
- Good presentation skills (audition tapes are usually 5-ish minutes and need a lot of info conveyed)
- Competent performance skills like singing and gaming
- Business-level English (not always required) + whatever language the agency natively speaks (not hyper-casual, no twitter incel gibberish)
- If it's Phase Connect, at least demonstrate being able to speak in non-twitter gibberish English/Japanese, even if some is permitted
Indies don't have to start off with these but they generally have to develop these to actually make money from it.
>>767655As with any job, but you're abandoning your previous identity anyway so a lot of those in-industry connections either don't matter or are an active work hazard. You just need enough connections to get noticed, too many connections and your debut after disappearance is suspicious.