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KYGO

Any idea when that is to take place?

I noticed the posting just the other day. I was just curious if they were looking to have a replacement for the very next day, or if they were going to take their time.

No what they would be looking for in a potential replacement?
 
If you didn't know about the job before it got posted chances are you (or me) are not in the running. It was a EOE posting.
 
rustyzipper said:
If you didn't know about the job before it got posted chances are you (or me) are not in the running. It was a EOE posting.
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arn't there laws about posting jobs that don't exist?
 
The job does exist. Federal law mandates EOE compliance to prove you made the position available to minorities, women, disabled and so on. Almost every job that came open at the stations where I worked had already committed to the jock they want and then they post the job wait 3 weeks for the packages to roll in, talk to a few folks then announce the winner. Check the newspaper or the state job service web site, there are always radio jobs there and they are there to generate resume files. Ugly I know but that's the way corporations work.
 
rustyzipper said:
The job does exist. Federal law mandates EOE compliance to prove you made the position available to minorities, women, disabled and so on. Almost every job that came open at the stations where I worked had already committed to the jock they want and then they post the job wait 3 weeks for the packages to roll in, talk to a few folks then announce the winner. Check the newspaper or the state job service web site, there are always radio jobs there and they are there to generate resume files. Ugly I know but that's the way corporations work.
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in this economy to post a job opening when so many are out of work, and then to be interviewed when they've ALREADY chosen someone is not only cruel and unfair, its "Illegal".

i ran across a new one recently. the ad placed was for an immediate opening, i BIT.. THEN form e-mails were sent out with an application attachment to fill out for that SAME job NOW called "For Possible Future Openings". Deception. :mad:
 
It might be illegal but try to prove it is going on. Anything with "future openings" is nothing more than compliance fishing. The company may be short of job applicants for the quarter so the put those out hoping some poor schmuck will jump at it. And they do.
Only way to get a job these days is to know someone who knows someone. Frankly it has always been that way. Other than the occasional part-timer we never hired anybody that applied to an ad.
 
rustyzipper said:
Only way to get a job these days is to know someone who knows someone. Frankly it has always been that way.
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And sometimes even that doesn't always work. Sometimes just the rumors/stories about an employee can be enough to prevent some business to hire that person even if the employee in question knows everyone who works there.

But going back to ads/EOE....I used to get a kick seeing all these ads for local TV and radio stations appearing in newspapers..miles and miles away from their own markets. Last year I saw an ad for Pittsburgh's WDVE-FM looking for on-air help...in the Kansas City Star ( according to my friends who live in Pittsbugh, WDVE didn't advertise that in the Pittsbugh Post-Gazzette ). A few years back while on vacation in Virginia Beach, I saw an ad in their local paper about "openings" at WISH-TV 8. Ah WISH is an INDIANAPOLIS television station and interesting the ad said nothing about, well Indianapolis. Just an email address.

Come to think of it, I was told that a year or two ago some classifed ad for a "CBS 4" appeared in the now defunct Rocky Mountain News ( maybe it was Westword )..looking for an anchor and 2 reporters. Thing was this ad was NOT for "CBS 4 KCNC" but rather for CBS 4 WIVB-TV in Buffalo, New York. And like the Indianapolis ad in Virginia Beach..the part about "Buffalo" and "WIVB" were left out..just the name of "CBS 4" and LIN TV ( owners of WIVB ) were mentioned . Makes me wonder how many poor souls showed up at KCNC to apply for the job when those jobs were really for WIVB? Better yet I wonder what KCNC must had thought about it?
 
I think it's just a real sad time in radio now in general. With so many people out of work and the companies not really caring about the employees they still have.

I hope that KYGO really is looking for someone and they haven't already filled the position. Not so much for the fact that I think the job would be good for myself, but it would mean that there is a company that does seem to care about their reputation.
 
rustyzipper said:
It might be illegal but try to prove it is going on. Anything with "future openings" is nothing more than compliance fishing. The company may be short of job applicants for the quarter so the put those out hoping some poor schmuck will jump at it. And they do.
Only way to get a job these days is to know someone who knows someone. Frankly it has always been that way. Other than the occasional part-timer we never hired anybody that applied to an ad.
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gee, i hope YOU KNOW SOMEBODY the next time you are unemployed, because you won't get an HONEST chance in this enviornment.
 
Hey I don't make the rules I just sucked it up and lived with them. All the jobs I got were because I knew somebody. I was never unemployed and only worked at a handful of stations. As for now; I am not unemployed but out of radio. I saw the handwriting a couple of months before I got budget wacked out of a career I had for 21 years, came up with a plan B and and had a new job and new career 2 months later. Too many radio people only have 1 skill and that's radio. Got to be deversified if you want to survive.
 
rustyzipper said:
Hey I don't make the rules I just sucked it up and lived with them. All the jobs I got were because I knew somebody. I was never unemployed and only worked at a handful of stations. As for now; I am not unemployed but out of radio. I saw the handwriting a couple of months before I got budget wacked out of a career I had for 21 years, came up with a plan B and and had a new job and new career 2 months later. Too many radio people only have 1 skill and that's radio. Got to be deversified if you want to survive.
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and i'm sure you're a better man for it! Good Luck!
 
I'm sure many of you have noticed in the trades where a P.D. will say "After a long and exaustive search we have decided to promote (fill in the blank) from within the company". "We received hundreds of air-checks and interviewed dozens of great talent...but realized Joe the weekend jock was a perfect fit for "SEMI-LIVE" 105.9"
 
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I'm sure many of you have noticed in the trades where a P.D. will say "After a long and exaustive search we have decided to promote (fill in the blank) from within the company". "We received hundreds of air-checks and interviewed dozens of great talent...but realized Joe the weekend jock was a perfect fit for "SEMI-LIVE" 105.9"
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ya, Right..... what they decided to do is to save the money, and pay a weekend stooge to VT a full-time airshift. as for the "Hundreds of air-checks"- those people never really had a chance to be considered.
 
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