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

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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. 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 in […]

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

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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.

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Are Non-Competes Breaking the Media Industry—or Just Exposing It? It’s Time to Talk About It. 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: So which is it? The honest answer is: it depends on

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The Local Television Job Market in 2026: Tough? Maybe. Hopeless? Absolutely Not. 10 Helpful Hints…

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If you’ve spent any time scrolling LinkedIn lately (or read my blog posts), you’ve probably seen the headlines. Ownership changes. Consolidation. Budget cuts. Hiring freezes. Restructuring. Additional responsibilities piled onto already overloaded teams. It’s enough to make even the most accomplished television professional wonder what’s next. Let’s start with some good news. Despite all the

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Dear College Graduate: So You Want to Work in Local Television?

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A Survival Guide from Carver Talent Congratulations. You graduated college. You survived finals, group projects, professors who still use PowerPoint templates from 2004, and enough ramen noodles to qualify as a sodium-based life form. Now comes the easy part. Just kidding. Now you have to find a job. And if you’re reading this because you

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A Peek Into My Media Recruiting World: The $10 Million TV Sales Candidate

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Every recruiter has “the email.” The one you screenshot.The one you forward to a trusted industry friend with zero context except:“Read this. I’m speechless.” Here is mine. And I’m sharing this only to educate, not to embarrass this candidate. I pinky promise — and pinky promises are golden with my daughter. I’ve waited an appropriate

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Big 3 Broadcast Groups vs. Smaller Media Companies: What Today’s Television Department Heads Need to Know

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By Carver Talent The local television business is changing faster than many executives want to admit. Consolidation. Acquisitions. Budget compression. Corporate layering. Centralization. Hiring freezes disguised as “strategic pauses.” Department heads managing two stations, three platforms, four new revenue expectations, and five additional job responsibilities — often without meaningful increases in compensation. And yet, despite

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Salary Negotiation in Television: Play Chess, Not Checkers

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A Survival Guide for Television Station Leaders, Department Heads & Future GMs Let’s be honest. Most television executives were never actually taught how to negotiate compensation. They learned how to: But salary negotiation? Most people are just winging it with anxiety, ego, and advice from random LinkedIn “experts” who once negotiated an extra $4,000 and

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Welcome To The Jungle – The Recruiting Business: Powered by Coffee, Chaos & Human Emotion

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After 30 years in human resources and recruiting — including running recruiting for a large broadcast group and now spending the last 7 years owning my own media recruiting firm, Carver Talent — I’ve come to one undeniable conclusion: Recruiting is less of a profession and more of a front-row seat to the greatest reality

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Top Media Management Talent Aren’t Applying. Smart C-Suites and GM’s Aren’t Waiting. They Use Carver Talent. Here’s Why:

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The media industry loves to talk about urgency. Breaking news. Quarterly revenue. Ratings books. FCC deadlines. Digital growth. Talent wars. But when it comes to hiring? Some media companies move like it’s 1997. Post a job. Wait. Pray. Interview the same recycled applicants their competitors already passed on. Drag the process out for 6-8 weeks.

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