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Local Television Doesn’t Have an HR Problem. It Might Have a Utilization Problem.

Broadcast, HR Law, Human Resources, Interview Tips, Interviewing Tips, Interviews, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

Spend enough time around local television stations and you start to notice something interesting about the people responsible for the people. At the station level, they may be called a Business Office Manager, Human Resources Manager or HR Business Partner. Sometimes they are responsible for HR along with payroll, benefits, accounting, compliance and whatever else

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You Don’t Have a Candidate Shortage. You Have a Job Design Problem.

Broadcast, Human Resources, Interview Tips, Interviewing Tips, Interviews, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

There is a phrase I hear constantly in media recruiting: “There just aren’t any candidates.” Sometimes that’s true. Certain talent pools have unquestionably gotten smaller. Experienced broadcast engineers are becoming harder to find. Newsroom leadership pipelines have thinned. Sales management benches aren’t what they once were. Consolidation, downsizing, retirements and people simply leaving the business

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Your Best Candidate Isn’t Looking for You

There is a fundamental mistake I see companies make when they talk about recruiting. They confuse the applicant pool with the talent market. They are not the same thing. A position opens. The company posts it. The job goes on LinkedIn, the corporate career site and maybe a few industry boards. Applications start coming in.

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America’s Local TV Industry Has a Newspaper Problem

For decades, local television executives looked at newspapers the way a healthy person looks at someone else’s diagnosis: unfortunate, but not contagious. Print publishers got flattened by Craigslist, Google, Facebook, and the internet’s dismantling of classified advertising. Television stations, meanwhile, sat behind a protected moat of retransmission fees, political advertising, cable bundles, and weather coverage

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Tell Me Your Story. Just Not All of It.

There is one question I ask almost every candidate I talk to. “Tell me your story.” It sounds casual. It is not. I’m not asking because I need you to read your résumé to me. I already have it. I’m not particularly interested in where you went to high school, the first job you had

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The TV Talent Shortage: What Station Managers Can Control

CARVER CORNER: What station managers can do now to attract, develop, and keep the people who will determine what local television becomes next. Let’s be honest: most television stations do not have a talent shortage. They have a talent-retention problem, a compensation problem, a leadership problem, or a reputation problem. In some cases, they have

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Is It Time to Rethink the Television Talent Agent Business Model?

Carver Corner By Ty Carver Every industry has business models that make perfect sense, and then there are a few that leave you wondering how they’ve survived for decades without anyone seriously questioning them. One that has always fascinated me is the traditional television talent agent model. Before anyone misunderstands where I’m going with this,

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Stop Hiring Mini-Me’s: The Television Industry’s Biggest Recruiting Mistake

Broadcast, Human Resources, Interviewing Tips, Interviews, Job Search, Jobs, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

The New Broadcast Talent Playbook: Recruiting Across Four Generations Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth. Most hiring managers say they want diversity of thought, and then they hire someone who thinks exactly like they do. The General Manager who came up through sales wants another sales-minded leader. The News Director wants someone who came up

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Managing Boomers, Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z in a TV Station: A Survival Guide for Broadcast Leaders

Broadcast, Human Resources, Interviews, Jobs, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

Walk into any television station in America and you’ll find something fascinating. The newsroom assignment desk may be staffed by someone who remembers editing tape with a razor blade, sitting next to someone who has never owned a DVD player. The General Manager might still remember when newspaper revenue was king. The Digital Sales Manager

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Non-Competes Are Costing You Talent. Change My Mind.

Broadcast, HR Law, Human Resources, Job Search, Jobs, Journalism, JournalismJobs, Local Television, Local TV, Media, MediaJobs, Non-competes, Recruiting, Recruiting Tips, TVjobs, Uncategorized / Ty Carver

Let’s stop pretending this isn’t an uncomfortable question: are non-competes and restrictive employment contracts helping the media industry, or slowly strangling it? Depending on who you ask, they’re either essential protection for businesses investing in talent, draconian restraints that trap people in jobs they’ve already outgrown, standard practice “because that’s how it’s always been,” or

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