Current (https://current.org/tag/jobs/)
Organizations in the Public Media Village at this month’s event ran into new challenges in networking with job-seekers. But attendees said they still welcomed the opportunity.
Hiring has dropped off, but there are signs of hope for public media job-seekers.
We checked in with Eliza Lambert, who asked us in 2016 where she should start her public radio career.
Trainers Judith Smelser and Mike Marcotte discuss the new skills required when a reporter moves into a leadership position.
Trainers Judith Smelser and Michael Marcotte offer tips on everything from time management to planning for crisis coverage, all while dealing with challenging personality types in the newsroom.
Recruiters, our audience and other public radio professionals answer a reader’s question about where to begin a career.
“The only way to really mess this up is to go into PR. Don’t go into PR.”
Tweets, Facebook comments and more sparked by our series.
Where should an aspiring journalist begin her career?
Build networks, move quickly and spruce up that resume.
Seeing how listeners use the NPR app “is brand new and a little scary, but also priceless.”
Mike and Kim had worked together for many years at a large public broadcasting organization. He was a manager, and she was a senior attorney; they often collaborated but reported to different bosses. One day, during what seemed to be a routine conversation in Kim’s office, she cursed and berated Mike about his work. Afterwards, Mike faced a tough choice: risk escalating the conflict by speaking up about Kim’s inappropriate behavior or remain silent in hopes that that the outburst would be an isolated incident. Although this scenario may seem extreme, it’s a situation that many people encounter in the workplace, where too often people do not speak up for themselves and find that they’re treated with disrespect.
I’ve hired a lot of folks over the past 35 years in broadcasting, and thankfully most have been good hires, some excellent, and some even extraordinary. I count in that latter group Robert Krulwich, Robert Siegel, Noah Adams, Scott Simon, David Brancaccio, David Brown, and many others. But I have also encountered job applicants who left me with a bad taste in my mouth — not because of who they were, but rather because of what they did during the application process. For the benefit of future applicants, I thought I’d detail some of what I consider the “cardinal sins” of applying for a job. The obvious time-wasters: those who haven’t read the detailed job description or lifted a finger to research the company or station doing the hiring.