Re: Finding a job in a recession
Posted: Sat 19 Dec, 2009 13.34
Well I actually find it to be the opposite - certainly the past 4 1/2 years anyway. Recent graduates are off-putting to many production companies (except for the BBC), as they come into the industry thinking they know about everything already and most companies like to take people from scratch and show them the way they do things.
Like I said before, TV is really becoming a bastardised industry. People want to employ someone as a Runner but get them to do a Researchers job - and as TV is so over-subscribed and so many people want to get into the industry the poor person applying for the job has no choice in the matter and knows that if they don't do it, there are 1000's of people waiting behind them that would, and probably for even less money.
It's for this reason that I think I am done with the television industry, especially the way things seem to be going (and it's only going to get worse).
Yes, I do live in London, and I know all about production companies and production base - a site which charges £25 a month to let you view jobs and apply for them. I left production base because the only jobs coming through were 'Hindu-speaking Scientific Researcher' and the like.
TV is such a 'who you know, not what you know' industry - but everyone I know is also struggling in the recent months. Terrible times - and I think I'm ready to go.
Like I said before, TV is really becoming a bastardised industry. People want to employ someone as a Runner but get them to do a Researchers job - and as TV is so over-subscribed and so many people want to get into the industry the poor person applying for the job has no choice in the matter and knows that if they don't do it, there are 1000's of people waiting behind them that would, and probably for even less money.
It's for this reason that I think I am done with the television industry, especially the way things seem to be going (and it's only going to get worse).
Yes, I do live in London, and I know all about production companies and production base - a site which charges £25 a month to let you view jobs and apply for them. I left production base because the only jobs coming through were 'Hindu-speaking Scientific Researcher' and the like.
TV is such a 'who you know, not what you know' industry - but everyone I know is also struggling in the recent months. Terrible times - and I think I'm ready to go.