Returning to Clear Channel?

[little bird]

If you are someone who was laid off from Clear Channel…does that preclude you from being considered for employment at Clear Channel?...for all time?

Even if you apply at a different “clusterfiretruck” than you originally worked?

Or even if it is a different job?

I ask because several times I responded to ads for employment at Clear Channel as a "Hail Mary" and a couple of times I even got responses. However after a couple of encouraging short correspondences and once even a call back, I am unceremoniously ignored.

Any insight?

 

[Arbitorn]

I know a person who was one of the fish in the annual barrel and then rehired later by the same cluster. I imagine the prospective cluster GM has to confer with the previous cluster GM and probably San Antonio before the rehiring.

 

[JeremyAndrews]

I know many who have been fired from Clear Channel only to return elsewhere, sometimes even in the same cluster.

Usually when someone is fired, it's an elimination of a position or a budget cut (In other words, getting paid too much) However, it doesn't mean someone with enough passion for the industry wouldn't get another job there and it also doesn't mean that Clear Channel wouldn't let them back in if they needed someone to fill a shift.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I have heard about such tactics in businesses of many types that have consolidated. It seems like there should be federal legislation barring blacklisting by big corporations of anyone not dismissed for a really good cause. People say things in such instances that they wouldn't otherwise say. In the old days, you could walk out after a spat, walk across the street, and have a job with a competitor the same day, radio or otherwise. With so much multiple ownership in many industries, this seriously limits options if the big conglomerate has a no rehire policy. It seems that corporations would realize that this should be more flexible, and to be totally inflexible is not wise corporate policy. A lot of HR people are inflexible these days though.

 

[cyberdad]

I think in the case of radio the problem (of not getting hired or re-hired) has more to do with all the downsizing and consolodation having created a surplus of qualified personnel.