If you sign a contract as a part-timer make sure the fine print doesn't say "..my employment is for part time only". One station I worked at had seperate contracts for full timers and part timers. For a PT to go FT they pretty much had to re apply as they just starting out.
If a PD says something like "...you are such a good part-timer, if I put you on full time then I would be losing my best part-timer". That could be a kiss of death. May have to try elsewhere. I know many of part-timers who have heard those words and no they did not go full time.
Does your station was a record of making part-timers into full-timers? If not, then chances are you won't be the first.
Actually in all of the years I did radio ( 17+ ) I have only seen three part-timers go full time as far as programming goes ( sales thats a different topic ). And all three of them it was a case of being at the right place and at the right time. Example...our Sunday night part-time went full time only because the overnighter full timer quit at the very last minute ( 11:30pm ). Sadly and oddly, talent wasn't even an issue as there were part-timers who could have done the job better than the ones who actually got that full time gig.
Looking back I never fully understood why some part-timers were never offered the chance of going full time.
Almost like being in an private country club or something.
At one station I worked at we had a woman in her mid 20s. She worked in a few major makets ( the market I was in was not one of them ), she even was an intern for CBS News, she sounded great on the air and despite all of the full time openings that popped up over the years, she was never offered a full time gig even though she made it clear to management she would be willing to work for peanuts if offered full time.
And when she finally left our company, our GM and PD couldn't understand why she left. Duh !!!!!
