You book a tech off a name, a CV and a hope. Reboot AV builds the AV trade’s next workforce: trained, vetted technicians ready to work your shows, so you stop gambling on crew. Every one in the Reboot Hire pool is assessed against the job itself — department by department, skill by skill, at the size of show you are actually running.
A CV tells you what somebody wants you to read. It will not tell you whether they can be left alone with the desk, whether they have done it at your size of room, or whether the one skill your gig hinges on is the one they have never touched — so you find out on site, on the day, with a client in the room. Here is what we check instead.
Every technician rates themselves across 67 skills in 13 departments — audio, video, lighting, LED and projection, networking, streaming, rigging, set and carpentry, control, corporate AV, show operations, and specialist trades like motors, atmospherics and simultaneous interpretation.
Exposure, assists, solo, leads and teaches. Solo is the bar most bookings are made at: trusted alone with it on a live show. A technician is asked to rate only the work they actually want calls for.
A rating is the technician’s own word. It is tested at their Reboot Hire interview, and after that the people who book them confirm it on real gigs. Nothing on a profile pretends to be more than it is.
Before somebody accepts a call they want to know who you are, what the day is like and what they will be standing behind. Most of that never gets written down, so it gets asked on the phone every time, or worse, found out on site.
Call times, parking, dress, whether meals are provided, how you pay. The practical things that decide whether a good technician takes your date or somebody else’s.
Pick what is actually in your racks from a catalogue of over two thousand pieces of equipment. A technician then knows the desk, the switcher and the media server before they say yes — not when they walk in.
Because the gear is named rather than typed, Reboot already knows what it takes to run it. Choosing a Barco E2, a grandMA and an X32 tells us the call needs video switching, lighting console programming and digital console operation. You never list a skill.
The same list feeds the schematic builders, so a system you have already drawn does not have to be described twice.
Company accounts are approved by a person before they open, because the account can see technicians’ real names, phone numbers and CVs. You will hear back by email.
No portal to learn. Tell us the job the way you would tell a colleague.
Not a résumé. A file you can read in a minute and defend to a client — every line of it traceable to something the technician told us, or something their own document says.
Which of our forty roles they meet right now, and which they would hold in a smaller room but not a ballroom. The same job is a different job at a different size of show, and the file says which.
Their CV is read against our own equipment vocabulary, so you see the desks, processors and servers they have named themselves — not a guess at what they might know.
In their words, not ours: the handful of jobs they actually get phoned about, and the skills they lead on that only a few roles ever ask for.
The fastest way to fix a crew gap is often the tech already on your payroll. Reboot’s course library covers every department, and a company account can put your people through it — so the training shows up on the same profile a booker reads.
A room, a date and a list of roles is enough to start. We will come back with names, what each of them is assessed to do, and what we do not yet know about them.
Reboot Hire is new and the pool is growing. If we do not have the right person for your date, we will say so rather than send somebody for you to find out about on site.