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Topic: What do I need to do to get Noticed!!!!
| Author | Message |
| skyler | Posted – 7/23/2008 10:50:53 AM | show profile I've currently hit a brick wall where I feel my skills and qualifications are being over looked by my current employer. I was the Music Director at my college station for almost 3 years. Then I interned for a top rated station in Washington D.C. I'm currently working part-time in a mid-size market. I've repeated asked for more responsibility, but no one seems to be interested in allowing me to show all of my strengths. What should I do to get myself noticed as a real asset to the station? |
| fourfold | Posted – 7/23/2008 11:18:21 AM | show profile | email poster How long have you worked at the station you're at now? And what are your responsibilities? |
| fourfold | Posted – 7/23/2008 11:18:24 AM | show profile | email poster How long have you worked at the station you're at now? And what are your responsibilities? |
| skyler | Posted – 7/23/2008 11:29:43 AM | show profile I've been working there for almost a year now. They keep my responsibilities very limited, but they include... ? Editing of sound clips used for commercials ? Used VoxPro to edit remote breaks for DJ?s ? Coordinated timing for live air breaks ? Organized artist liners /folders in the stations computer system ? Controlled radio station board during remote broadcasts I feel I have the ability to do much more then these few things, thats why I'm becoming frustrated and concerned that I'm nt being given the opportunity to show my full potential. During my internship i did things such as... ? Assisted on-air talent with creation of entertaining show content for the mid-day show ? Responsible for programming music for the HD2 channel ? Reconciled station music logs and recapped commercial logs ? Loaded commercials into Prophet ? Helped create content with the Morning Show |
| alejapoet | Posted – 7/23/2008 1:32:43 PM | show profile | email poster I feel your pain Today i feel as if being an Author of two books is getting me no where. I had to apply for welfare isnt that a blip. Well anyway we must still fight for what we want in life. We must get people to see that we are most worthy of that shot. http://alejabennett.blogspot.com |
| skyler | Posted – 7/23/2008 2:00:31 PM | show profile You are right, I'll keep up the fight! Good luck to you, I hope everything works out for the best. |
| rulebook | Posted – 7/23/2008 4:11:13 PM | show profile Quadruple exclamation points in place of a question mark? /sorry |
| skyler | Posted – 7/23/2008 4:58:48 PM | show profile Yea, you get a "?" when you copy a bulletin point from word and paste it on here... |
| Louisewasnothalfbad | Posted – 7/23/2008 7:41:49 PM | show profile Since you're working part-time, more responsibility probably says "more money" to your boss. Does your station have a website? Can you write for it or produce pieces to run on it? Can you suggest a segment that you can produce? What about live remotes? |
| ManhattanMatt | Posted – 7/24/2008 1:54:26 AM | show profile What do you need to do to get noticed??? Just do your JOB. In the real world, no one cares what you did while you were in school. You've got less than a year of experience. Once you've racked up THREE years of experience, get back to us. |
| skyler | Posted – 7/24/2008 7:40:05 AM | show profile Yea we have a website... i'll think about coming up with something for that. |
| foodlit | Posted – 7/24/2008 8:28:03 AM | show profile I agree with Matt. You've been there less than a year, the way you get more responsibility is to earn it, and to just start doing more. Come in early, stay late, work harder, volunteer to do any work that needs doing....you need to earn their trust to give you more important things, the way you get that is by demonstrating your ability to do whatever needs doing. Seriously, this is how you make things happen. |
| detour_memphis | Posted – 7/24/2008 11:24:27 AM | show profile You Got To Earn It... You have only been on the job a short time. You must earn more work. Do your job, do it, and do it. Don't try to take over. What you did in school doesn't count. School is over and welcome to the real world!!! Catch It!! |
| skyler | Posted – 7/24/2008 12:31:28 PM | show profile ok well that sounds good, but i wasnt trying to "take over" i just have bills to pay and 4 hours a month, running the board isnt cutting it lol. |
| abqwriter | Posted – 7/24/2008 1:35:46 PM | show profile No matter what line of work you are in, the way to get noticed is to work smarter, harder and longer than anyone else in your position and to do it with a good attitude. |
| jobhunter08 | Posted – 7/25/2008 1:14:16 AM | show profile Think of it this way: You're working part-time in the industry you want to work in. Some of us can't even get that far. |
| ManhattanMatt | Posted – 7/26/2008 6:41:18 PM | show profile Skyler, I hear you ... ... been there, done that. When I started in radio I was so part-time that the company didn't even call me part-time (because they would have had to offer part-time benefits ... not did they call me "freelance" (because freelancers had a set pay scale in the company, and they didn't want to pay us newbies anywhere near that) -- so they called me a "casual" employee. Some weeks I worked 40 hours. Many weeks I worked NO hours. Often I'd work one day here, another day there. It was frustrating because I had a car payment, rent, and school loans to pay off. But I registered with every temp agency in town and took assignments around my radio gigs. I did a lot of menial work that I absolutely hated, but I did it because I had a bigger goal in mind: building my broadcasting career. I always made myself available to the station first, and my temp agencies second. The beauty of temp agencies is that they totally understand, and are flexible. Go for light industrial over office/clerical ... it pays better and you get to wear jeans and tennis shoes. I can't tell you all the things I did as a temp, but here's a sample: -- filled orders at the GNC warehouse (light industrial) -- assembled office cubicles (light industrial) -- Built warehouse storage units for a Wal-Mart (light industrial) -- Worked at an in-house travel agency delivering airline tickets to bank executives (clerical) -- Catalogued technical drawings of pipes for a French engineering company (clerical) -- Dressed as a bottle of Bayer aspirin and handed out samples at a busy downtown intersection (light industrial) -- Copied, collated, and distributed materials within a bank (clerical) -- Cancelled checks for the IRS (clerical) -- Weighed 18-wheel tractor-trailers at a weigh station (light industrial) If the station likes you, they'll find room for you. It took me about a year and a half before I started getting steady part-time work there. And it took another two years before they finally hired me staff. It takes time. It will not happen instantly. But if you want it bad enough, it WILL happen. |
| skyler | Posted – 7/29/2008 10:23:20 PM | show profile thanks, i appreciate that. glad to know that it might not be me after all. |
| WordyBird | Posted – 8/15/2008 10:29:29 AM | show profile "-- Dressed as a bottle of Bayer aspirin and handed out samples at a busy downtown intersection (light industrial)" Heh, that made my morning. |
