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 […]
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.
Landing a General Manager role in today’s broadcast landscape isn’t about having “been around long enough” or “running a tight ship.” That baseline is assumed. The real differentiator is whether you can convincingly blend operator discipline with growth-minded aggression—without sounding like you’re trying to be two different people in the same interview. Stations don’t just
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Yes, I’m old enough to remember when resumes showed up in the mail. And get this, we posted job ads only in the local newspaper. Yikes… Actual newspapers and snail mail. Resumes delivered by the United States Postal Service. To an office. In an envelope. On expensive “executive” resume paper that could double as a
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For years, local television groups have obsessed over ratings, retrans fees, streaming strategy, digital transformation, and cost containment. But behind the scenes, another crisis has quietly been building inside television stations across America. The engineering brain drain. And unlike a bad ratings book or a missed revenue forecast, this problem cannot be fixed overnight. Because
There is absolutely a direct correlation between the collapse of the newspaper industry, the consolidation of the radio business, and the current trajectory of broadcast television. In fact, if you zoom out far enough, the pattern is almost impossible to ignore. First came newspapers. Then radio. Now television. Different platforms. Same economic story. The uncomfortable
Remember day one with your exciting new job opportunity? Yeah, that job. The one where you applied online, jumped through several hoops/interviews in order to seal the deal to several strangers that you were the perfect match against their technical/behavioral job competencies, perhaps negotiated for your pittance, and perhaps passed pre-employment screening/background check/etc. And you
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I interview thousands of candidates in the media industry for a living. Contracts are prevalent within our industry, but not for every group and every position. If you are under contract or currently employed and looking for your next opportunity for career growth, there is a strategy and decorum you need to consider. One of
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