The market is also very broad ranging both in terms of geography and skill sets required; television production jobs in San Francisco will require a different attitude and approach when compared to DC television jobs and the same applies if you are looking in the Miami TV jobs market too. This requires candidates to be flexible in how they approach their job search and resources that are available need to be able to cater for not only your needs but also to empower you to deliver multiple presentations and resumes for wide ranging potential employers with their own ideas on who will be an ideal candidate to fill the position.
Fortunately, the internet and World Wide Web has delivered a powerful tool for searching for and assessing TV job vacancies and getting ourselves and our resumes up front and center. For those who take the time to learn how to use this powerful resource, they can develop a strong competitive edge over rival candidates all looking for the same kind of work.
The issue will become how you develop a competitive edge?
Recruiting and job vacancy sites along with discussion boards and personal networking will be your primary routes to uncovering information and details on who is hiring. None of these resources can assure you of a comprehensive and updated source of information on vacancies and requirements however. You are going to need to look at some form of aggregating resource which pulls vacancy information from both the online and offline worlds and collate the information for you to easily sift through and respond to those positions which are of interest to you.
The web offers numerous sites which claim to be comprehensive and up-to-date however, in practice there will e very few that come close to delivering on this bold claim. There are some aggregating web sites that are available and you will find that they provide a dedicated research and analyst team which collect data from very wide ranging media sources and allow you to quickly access and search through the information. You will also find that a good portal web site will allow you to very quickly generate multiple versions of your resume for use with different categories of employer and different vacancies.
Using a web site, which does not charge employers, is also a good idea as by definition a comprehensive web site will not be excluding vacancies and employers simply because they do not wish to pay the advertising fees involved! Most of the web sites that are successful do in fact charge employers fees and this results in many job vacancies not finding their way into their databases and users who believe they are getting a good deal because they are not being charged themselves, are in fact losing out on some excellent opportunities.
A very good piece of advice is to look carefully at using a portal web site which will allow employers to list their vacancies at no charge to them and instead charges the individual job seekers. This may flow against the grain but in fact, job seekers are then gaining access to a much more comprehensive source of TV job information and employers. You do need to be careful that the web site is not simply charging you a fee for no real service – you can establish whether a web site is truly delivering a good service by looking to see whether they have a landline telephone number and a physical mailing address – many cowboy operations provide neither and should be avoided. In addition, sites which deliver a good service are talked about on the various discussion boards and forums which populate the web – take the time to check out the company and site you are considering using before you part with any money and even better, use only a site that gives you a free trial of the system and resources.
In summary, you need to be fast and effective to win the TV job you are really looking for in this diverse and extremely interesting and rewarding industry. There are numerous other candidates looking to win the same job as you so you need to be professional in your approach to job hunting and your dealings with potential employers. Using a web service which aggregates vacancy information from a variety of sources in real-time is one of the fastest ways of accessing information on jobs before your competitors do and allows you to demonstrate your ability to get ahead of the rest of the field. In addition, you should be able to manage and manipulate your resume which is probably the most powerful door opening tool you have at your disposal. You also should look to deal with a site or service that does not charge employers to use the vacancy listing service and has a dedicated team collecting information not just from the web but more traditional sources as well.
