RADIO DJ AND OTHER CAREERS IN RADIO

Do traditional radio schools succeed in finding their students paid work in the radio business before or after graduation?  Most of the traditonal radio schools (which charge 30-100k) graduate many thousands of students annually and when these students matriculate they enter into an extremely competitive radio business job market.  These unlucky graduates quickly learn that with no REAL RADIO STATION EXPERIENCE they are pretty much out of luck.

They soon realize that their diploma means nothing and can not, nor will not get them hired.  Think about how hard it is these days to get a regular job at say a marketing firm or even at a local restaurant or club? Well as you probably already know, it's a thousand times more difficult to get a job in the radio business! Why is that? Well there are a few reasons:

    First, the radio business is what we call a "marquis job", that is, it's a dream job     with lots of competiton for just a few openings. Think about it, where do you             think most people would rather work? In a boring cubicle or at a fast paced             radio station? In a government or corporate office or on the air?  That said, it             isn't that hard to realize that a career in radio is a career that millions of people         are trying to get. That means, YOU ARE COMPETING WITH MORE PEOPLE             FOR FEWER RADIO JOB OPENINGS. More people because it is a dream job,         fewer jobs because once someone lands one of these dream jobs, they rarely         leave.

    Second, the radio business does NOT, we repeat DOES NOT, work like the             normal job market. That is, when a position at a radio station becomes                     available, employers do not hire from with-OUT, they almost always HIRE from         with-IN. In other words, radio stations rarely post AD in the help wanted section.     Instead, they ask their friends and colleagues in the radio business if they know     of any hard working, qualified candidates? If you were to talk to ten radio                     professionals and they would quickly tell you they NEVER hired an assisstant         from a traditional radio school or from a newspaper AD.  What they will tell you         is they only hire people they know and trust or people that come recommended     from other radio pros.

So it begs the question: if all the job positions in the radio business go to the         people that radio station employers already know, how do you get to know these     radio professionals that are doing the hiring? ANSWER: YOU MUST GET YOUR     FOOT IN THE DOOR OF A REAL RADIO STATION and PROVE YOURSELF to be     both hard working and experienced.  Now, you're probably saying, "I'm not                 qualified yet, I have little or no studio experience !!  Now what? "  So how does         one get trained, get their foot in the door, and get the opportuity to prove                     oneself?    One thing is for certain, you don't achieve these objectives by signing     up for a radio school that charges 60 thousand dollars or more for you to sit in a     classroom. No, you go to The Radio Connection Radio and DJ School where         your classroom is in a real on-air radio station and your teacher is the same guy     or gal that you one day hope will hire you.

Make sense?  We think so.  Now, we do not guarantee jobs or career placment,     NO ONE can gurantee you a job, but think about it and then ask yourself, "Which    program  is more likely to get you hired--a program that puts you in a real, on-air, professionally run, radio station or  a classroom on a college campus?

Radio Connection DJ and Radio School is the school that gives you the opportuity to be trained by working radio professionals. It is the only school that also connects you with the people that might just need, or know someone that needs, an assistant in the future.  Ask yourself, in terms of training, connections, and tuition price, do other schools compare with The Radio Connection?

We also have Job Placement Assistance that is included with your regular priced tuition. That's right ,we will do our best to help you find paid work in radio.

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