Journal Boise is hunting for a part-time air talent for an unspecified station - “weekend and evening availability is frequently required.”
Full posting after the jump, as they say.
Scheduled Days & Hours:
Part-time; Non-Exempt
Education:
High School Diploma required; college degree preferred.
Skills:
Candidate must have excellent written and verbal communication skills; excellent delivery skills; ability to work well under pressure; strong in-person interviewing skills and on-air presentation; technical ability; understanding of digital recording equipment; computer proficiency. Ability to conceive and deliver entertaining content within prescribed formatic constraints. Must present a well-groomed, professional appearance. Must show initiative and self-motivation.
Experience:
Minimum two years on-air experience.
Duties:
Responsible for the research, development, production and execution of entertaining on-air program content relevant to the target audience as defined by your supervising manager. In addition to duties related to live and/or pre-recorded on-air presentation, this position may also be assigned commercial and/or promotional production, remote broadcasts, personal appearances on behalf of the station, and other tasks as may be assigned by the Program Director or Operations Manager. Weekend and evening availability is frequently required.
Send tape, resume and cover letter to:
Cathy Prazenica
Journal Broadcast Group
5257 Fairview Ave. #260
Boise, Idaho 83706
cprazenica@journalbroadcastgroup.com
The title of the email must contain your name followed by the position title. Please include in the cover letter the name of the organization or website or individual where you learned about this job opportunity
on Jan 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I’m just glad they aren’t searching for afternoon talent. Although the requirements seem to have gone up. They make it sound like you have to do a lot of work to pull off an on air shift.
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Any guesses as to how much this will pay? $8/hour maybe?
Who could afford to have a job like this? Since they want you available at all hours of the day, that pretty much knocks out the possibility of having a full-time job you might want to have alongside this one.
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 8:09 am
This sounds like substitute teaching to me. They want you to be able to do everything while they pay as little as possible and get treated like Rodney Dangerfield (”no respect”).
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 10:56 am
If you ask me (and no one ever does), this job sounds exactly like any radio job that is offered these days to “novices”, if you will. To be fair, I don’t know what it was like getting into radio “in the good old days”, as you guys seem to describe it, but from what I’ve seen even with my experience, the newest guys to the radio world pay their dues by accepting jobs that pay practically nothing yet ask for almost all of your time. Taking a low paying job like that is exactly how I got started in this market.
Now, while I don’t think the continued practice of asking the new guys to put in more hours than they are paid is right (or legal), I do think it’s a great deterrent to avoid those lazy ass Generation Y kids who just expect to be handed an air shift without any experience whatsoever.
Again, I don’t know how you had to “pay your dues” years ago, but I can tell you that any person who goes through the gauntlet of getting into radio today will either be a very good air talent, or completely retarded.
I’m still not sure which of those I am.
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Oh Ian. Come and find me. I’ll tell you which of those you are.
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Wait…evenings? Ahh crap.
on Jan 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
We’re complaining about $8 an hour? How about us who only got in because of internships and got paid nothing. I agree with Ian, and you have to get in this way otherwise anyone could do it right?
on Jan 19th, 2008 at 1:51 am
“…you have to get in this way otherwise anyone could do it right?”
I guess what I’m wondering is why anyone would want to get into it these days?
on Jan 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
The said:
“I guess what I’m wondering is why anyone would want to get into it these days?”
Because you have the opportunity to say just about anything and, for some god unknown reason, people are listening.
on Jan 21st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Because Working in radio R.O.C.K.S.!
You get to work with a really cool group of people. And it doesn’t matter which side of the mic you are working on. And you are part of a bigger community. If you have any doubts, just look at the postings for Margo Vaughn.
So, that’s why we start out doing it for practically nothing. Or sometimes, nothing. if you love a thing, and are passionate about it, then that’s OK…
I mean, who really needs things like, food, clothes & rent money anyway? I Aafter all that’s show business! :)
on Jan 28th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Oh crap. There goes my gig.