Experience needed in this job
TV directors are more likely to be experienced in different sector of media. Director may start his/her job as researcher, script editor or production manager. They might have experienced in all TV jobs that available nowadays. TV directors must have the right skills and experience for this job because they are responsible for the whole programme to be succeeded.
Indeed qualification and work experience can aid me get job in whatever job area in media I desire to apply. Yet, even if I have all the above qualities (skills and experience), these by itself will not assurance me a career.
There are many ways of finding jobs in media industry:
Agencies: The best way of finding out about jobs is by going to an employment agency where employers are provided with details of suitable candidates. These agencies specialse in specific business sector and if you are interested in working in a particular field, it might be worth contacting these agencies rather than going through a general agency. These agencies are not only useful for the job seeker, but provide useful service to companies looking for new employees.
Job advertisements: This method of finding job is the most common form of external recruitment. There are many media trade publication that can be found in many places whether it is local, national newspaper or notice board. These newspapers such as Guardian have special pages for advertising media jobs every week.
Job centres: Another way of finding jobs is going to your local job centres. It is free to use and these job centres aimed to promote unemployed people to find jobs or get training. In addition, job centre offers a service for businesses wanting to advertise a job.
Yell.com: There are many website that can be used for searching job. One of these websites that offer this service is yell.com. It has a big database of employment agencies across different location in the UK.
These methods I mentioned above are the most common one nowadays and as time pass there will be another method invented to cut the number of unemployed people down.
TASK 2
There are different contracts in the media sector and each of them has its own advantage and disadvantage:
Freelance:
Before I point out its advantage and disadvantage of working as freelancer, we need to understand what freelance means. Freelance is employing yourself out to someone else for a specific piece of work by putting up your skills and time for sale; this often be paid by hour.
Advantage: The main benefit of freelance is being your own boss, where you will have the freedom to select your working time; you can work more than one job because you the freedom to choose you working hours, you can work from home and not having to travel; have control over the work done and flexibility.
Disadvantage: As every coin has two sides, freelance has its drawback but compared with its benefit, its drawback tend to be very tiny. Some of its drawbacks are lack of employment benefit, for instance, sick pay or paid holiday. Other disadvantages are social separation and from time to time working unfriendly hours to meet the deadlines.
Part-time
This is another type of contract in the media industries where employees have part-time positions whether it is permanent which does not finish after a fixed period or a temporary job finishes after a fixed period and this type of contract have advantage and disadvantage to employees.
Advantage: Doing part-time position will let you get a variety of experience in different industries because you will work less hours as a result you will have the ability to take another part-time position if needed and more part-time positions are available nowadays than full-time positions consequently it’s simpler to find one.
Disadvantage: Employees will not be able to get profit as they won’t get any sick or holiday pay as a result employees will have to find another part-time position in order to overcome this matter.
Full-time
This Type of contract is more likely to be more than 20 hours, where employees have full-time position but anything less than 20 hours is part-time.
Advantage: Employees will think they have a level of safety for the reason that they have full-time position and employees will have a sense of control and self-importance because simply they are the only who will be working on that full-time position. Employment benefits are available for employees who are working in full-time positions.
Disadvantage: Doing full-time position will take most of your time as a result you will have less time for yourself and your family and you cannot do more than one job.
TASK 3
The perfect media job for me more likely to be a graphic designer. This job suits me because I am the kind of person who has good visual communication skills, experienced in graphic design and photographic skills. If I have the opportunity to work in this field, I am sure that I will be the right candidate for this type of job.
Graphic designer’s job is to generate highly creative on screen graphics. All in all, I feel doing this job is enjoyable for me because it is where I try to capture the beauty that is around us in the world by presenting the truth, at least from my personal point of view using the latest software and technology.
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