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Can you look for a job, if you already have one?

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ineedabloodymary

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Has anyone here ever applied for another job, while they were still under contract? If so, could you give me advice? i know the radio industry is very small, so there is a small chance (but it could be possible) that my PD knows the PD I am applying to...

Can you get fired for something like this?
 
Have you lost your mind you gettin paid to do radio and goin to apply for another gig cmon there are people out here who pay for airtime on the radio or forced to the internet dam .
 
Next time talk to your agent but good luck hope you get the new gig
 
ineedabloodymary said:
Has anyone here ever applied for another job, while they were still under contract?
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I can remember the day when some station operators would fire you for reading Broadcasting magazine, which at one time was THE conduit for a major portion of employee searches and job searches. (This was sometime just before the building of the ark by Noah. ;D

I don't know what they are teaching about resumes today but I would include in my cover letter (or the e-mail) a sentence that reads something like this: "I am currently employed in the industry and do not wish to jeopardize that relationship. I would appreciate confidentiality in the handling of this application."

There are stupid things that can happen. The secretary at the station where you apply could be the sister of your supervisor's wife. She might leak the information and not realize what a problem it creates for you.

It is LEGAL to apply for another job while you still have a previous job. But supervisors can be jerks. You say you are "UNDER CONTRACT". What does your contract say about all this... if anything? When you signed the contract did you agree to not seek other employment during the lifetime of the contract? Is the job you are wanting to apply for in the same market where you currently work? Does your contract has a "no compete" clause that prevents you from going to work for a competitor for "x" number of months after leaving your current job? Does your current employer strictly enforce the no-compete, or do they routinely grant exceptions?
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy nailed it, as he does in most of his posts.

It is not illegal or immoral to keep the "lines of communication" open with other "opportunities." However, use extreme caution if you have put the word out there, especially in the same city or area you are currently employed.

Also, the wording of your contract either describes (or doesn't) whether you face consequences for any effort deemed to be construed to "break your contract" without permission of your employer.

Some employers DO give permission to talk with other "opportunities" and do not hold that against your contract. It's not their business who you talk to.

However, if you have a contract with a non-compete, it's best to only seek opportunity that is outside the area -- usually 25 miles or more (depending on the market of dominant influence) before you start contacting those who might just call your employer.

Also, GRC is right ... it is expressly important that you include the verbage, without any other disclosure or reason, that you are under contract and that it would be appeciated that no contact be made with your present employer.

Professional courtesy asked in confidence (another key word, "confidential") could go a long way to protect your interests and those of another employer.

Read and re-read any "non-compete" verbage, however, before putting yourself out for possible repercussions.

If worse comes to worse ... and you are really unhappy, a better way may be to go to your employer and ask (don't tell,) that you may have an opportunity to investigate and that you would like permission to explore that option. You don't have to tell where, what, where, when or why.

If you get "tacit approval" to do so ... you will at least have covered your butt. Then, if the employer wants to terminate your contract, you should look at it and read carefully what its "out clause" truly is.

Good luck. And be careful with posting such information ... one never knows who's lurking who could turn the tide against your job search. Stranger things have happened.
 
The circumstances and possibilities are endless. I was once "let go", terminated, fired. Not for cause. Just because a new program director wanted to clean house and choose his own kind of talent.

A couple of years later, out of the blue, a station owner called me one day asking if I were interested in a job with a new station he was building. He explained that the owner of that station where I had previously worked had recommended me. Go figure!

I thanked him but explained I had just accepted another new job that I really wanted to take because it offered some real learning opportunities. Told him that if I got tired of the "Yankee weather" in the new location, I would contact him to see what might be open. (I stayed with the "Yankee weather" for 38 years. :mad:

At that moment I had just dodged another bullet. I had been so open minded that I informed my employer that I had concluded that at my young age I needed to be seeking another position that allowed me to learn new skills. He thanked me. He was very gracious about the whole thing. Then one day a mature gentleman who did a little bit of part time work for our station confided to my boss that he was about to close his local business enterprise and didn't know what he would do next. My boss offered him MY job. The part-timer was ready to go. Now I had an employer looking over the top of his glasses asking: "How soon you gonna get out of here... or do I need to push you out?"

It was about Christmas-time and I made a New Years resolution: Don't ever, ever, ever telegraph your intentions again!

All worked out well. The new "Yankee Weather location" job was one of the best learning experiences I ever had. We were newly-weds and getting away from the area of our families was good for us.
 
Oh please, any PD/OM that doesn't expect a jock making 20-30k to always be looking for the next level is an idiot. Now if your in a sweet spot, making real good money in a major market then yea, be sly but medium-small market jocks? Your stupid if you AREN'T looking. Any PD that gets upset about that is just wearing blinders.
 
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