Post-Broadcasting School Job Placement

Once you've completed your broadcasting school education, what are your options? Unlike with educational programs at community colleges or universities, you won't be left alone to search for a job once you've gotten your diploma. With NBTN's extensive job placement assistance services, you might even have a job before you finish broadcasting school!

Since employment is the ultimate goal of broadcasting school, everything you'll learn will contribute towards that end. Although you'll learn all the things you would in an ordinary college work environment, you'll also get firsthand knowledge that you can only gain by working as an apprentice to a DJ — exactly what you'll be doing in broadcasting school. With that level of real-world experience in the radio market, you'll be more prepared for the realities of working at a radio station than any dime-a-dozen communications student from a university.

Broadcasting school graduates are so well-prepared for breaking into the radio business that they're often hired before they even graduate. Since you'll be learning and working at an actual radio station, you'll have a whole station full of contacts right at your fingertips. Start making your impression now! Unlike a job applicant that comes in cold, you'll have the advantage of being a familiar face around the "office" — think about it, would you rather hire a stranger, or someone whose personality you know, who knows the station well, who you already know is capable of doing the work?

The familiarity you'll gain both with the radio station environment in general and by working at that specific radio station will only help you. Unlike an intern, as a broadcasting school student you'll get to really handle the equipment and learn the real ins and outs of being a DJ as the college interns are stuck passing out stickers and photocopying flyers. Although sticker-passing-out skills have their place, actual radio experience will give you more of an edge!

These reasons and others are why broadcasting school students are often hired on at their radio stations once they've graduated, if not even sooner. Rather than learning from a professor, you've gotten your education on the job, giving you concrete knowledge backed up by actual training. What's more attractive than that?

But of course radio stations aren't always hiring, and the station you apprentice at might be one of those. If so, don't worry, you won't be set adrift once you receive your broadcasting school diploma. Your mentor is well-equipped to connect you with other stations that are hiring, so if you don't get a position there, you might get one at another station in town! NBTN offers lifetime job placement assistance, too, so if one station doesn't work out you'll be able to find a position at another. Since NBTN representatives are constantly in contact with broadcasting organizations, they often have access to job openings that aren't publicly available yet, so you'll have the advantage with both your education and your connections, and you'll have it forever!