Just Venting...

[auntfrannie]

I think for a lot of jobs that are posted they already have someone in mind for the position and the job posting is a formality. It sucks. I hope you find something soon!

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Deep breath, AAAARRRGHHHHH!!!
Job hunting is soooooo stressful!
Lost my job at the start of the year and trying to find a new one but there is hardly anything suitable here, and when there is, after applying you get either crickets or a few days later the standard " Due to the high number of applicants, you have not been successful" . I have 30+ years of experience. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT PEOPLE????? Add to that my well meaning mum asking every few days if I have a job yet.
AAAAAAARRRRGGHHHH!
Thank you, I feel a bit better now

I'm so sorry, @A Squared - the job scene can suck.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Best wishes, @A Squared. You get the job, and it will better that what you previously did. You'll see, trust me. Hang in there.

 

[A Squared]

I think for a lot of jobs that are posted they already have someone in mind for the position and the job posting is a formality. It sucks. I hope you find something soon!

Thank you and me too!

 

[A Squared]

Best wishes, @A Squared. You get the job, and it will better that what you previously did. You'll see, trust me. Hang in there.

Thanks, we have our Europa Park and Disneyland Paris trip in 7 weeks ( booked and paid before job loss ). Not going is not an option as celebration trip for DH successful double lung transplant and 60th birthday

 

[A Squared]

Forgot to add that hanging in there for this trip - depression will not get the best of me!

 

[sam_gordon]

Ghost job listing's should be illegal IMHO

Pretty sure they're done because they legally have to be. I remember when I was a manager, even if we knew we wanted to promote someone into the job, we had to publicly post for the job. I don't remember if I was required to interview out of house, but it was encouraged.

 

[sam_gordon]

Boy has that changed! The current staffing at my old station for the 2 hours of weekend morning news is three people. Producer, Director, Anchor. Weather is recorded remotely and fed in from the hub. Sports is recorded locally the night before. Oh, next month, they are eliminating Directors. AI and Producer will be responsible for covering that.

As I said, BEFORE automation.

Employees had to cover their MANAGERS jobs on holidays. News Director, Assistant News Director and Assignment Manager work had to be picked up by the Producers and Assignment Editor. Assignment editor had to do all the staffing setup, planning for the morning meeting and running the morning editorial meeting (leaving the assignment desk unmanned during the morning meeting) that the Assignment Manager normally did . Producers have to take on the News Directors job of deciding which stories to cover, in what form, by which staff. Producers had to cover for the Assistant News Director and decide which stories were going to go to the 5, 6 and 630 shows and in what form. Also what if any network stories will be in the local newscasts, and what if any evergreen (aka HFRs) will be pulled off the shelf. And on holidays, you will burn up a few HFR stories.

I was responding to this...

MANAGERS worked Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years so EMPLOYEES could have the holiday off.

And many of those days would be a "normal" broadcasting day, so you'd still have at least morning, evening, and late night news, requiring multiple crews.

 

[soccerdad72]

Pretty sure they're done because they legally have to be. I remember when I was a manager, even if we knew we wanted to promote someone into the job, we had to publicly post for the job. I don't remember if I was required to interview out of house, but it was encouraged.

I have to admit, I've done that as well. I had plans to promote a staff person of mine to a manager position, but was told I needed to formally post the position and interview for it (including my staff). I brought in two others to interview, which I did seriously consider, but in the end, made the internal promotion.

 

[cabanafrau]

Ghost job listing's should be illegal IMHO

Ironically the position he's in now had been posted for two years with a week or two between postings without ever interviewing anyone. The person he "replaced" had left the position, the job was posted and for various reasons they never brought anyone in for an interview to fill the position. After a few months in the position DH realized that the workload had been handled by the person he shares an office with and others from different locations shuffling in as needed.

DH has also realized his coworker spends the largest portion of his day MIA, working on either a second job or multiple as a consultant. It's obvious his coworker left tasks piling up until the backlog was such that they finally decided to fill the open position to manage the workload.

 

[kanerf]

As a government contractor I have been through this too many times to count. I do have a high level clearance that facilitates things a bit, since these are always required for the kind of work I do. I have been with the current job just over four years since my last lay-off and job search.

 

[tvguy]

As I said, BEFORE automation.

I was responding to this...

And many of those days would be a "normal" broadcasting day, so you'd still have at least morning, evening, and late night news, requiring multiple crews.

Correct. There was no automation at my station at the time managers stepped up to cover holidays, or in case of illness or breaking news.

 

[sam_gordon]

Correct. There was no automation at my station at the time managers stepped up to cover holidays, or in case of illness or breaking news.

But they couldn't cover everyone's shift, so employees still had to work. Unless you had a ton of managers.

 

[tvguy]

But they couldn't cover everyone's shift, so employees still had to work. Unless you had a ton of managers.

Well, relatively speaking, yes, there are more managers now that when I started in the 1970s.
We had a News Director, Assistant News Director and Newsroom Secretary.
Now they have a News Director, Assistant News Director, AM Executive Producer, Dayside Executive Producer, Nightside Executive Producer Digital Executive Producer, Assignment Manager, and Operations Manager. Only the secretary is gone.

 

[cayennews]

Good luck with your job search!