Employment Opportunities

Different Employment Opportunities

Full time/permanent – Full time is permanent work.  These are usually people that work in a long-term contract work on programmes such as BBC Breakfast or This Morning. People that are in full time permanent jobs are usually the producers/directors and usually very skilled in what they do and are every good at their job. And example of job roles that can be permanent/full time are floor managers, directors and producers. In order to employ people in these sorts of jobs they would be recruited through personal contacts and networking. As this is a high demand job they would need to be good at managing people, creative, aware of financial situations and have good technical knowledge.

Part time/temporary – A part time/temporary job is when an individual does not work as many hours as someone who is full time/permanent. They are more likely to do shifts/working along side ones else due to the amount of hours that they are working. Cameramen are sometimes part time as they will share their work with many other people who are also capable of doing the job. They are usually recruited through networking, personal contacts or word of mouth. They would be trained to use many different cameras/equipment and would have lots of technical knowledge.

Freelance – these are people who create a piece of work either photographs or reviews or short videos and then sell them onto another company, they usually work for themselves and their only income in from the products that they sell. An example of a freelance worker would be a writer, graphic designer or a journalist. For example a writer could write a script for a media production and then sell in to a company, and if it they like the idea then they will earn money. They would have to have a creative background behind them. Being a freelancer usually contains 24 hour work and they are constantly working in order to collect some money from selling their work to companies hoping to get recognition.

Shift work – this exists for people that are filming TV shows 24 hours, such as programmes like Big Brother. The cameramen would take turns with other camera operators to film the production. Due to the long hours this is why shift work is vital in the filming of programmes like Big Brother.

Voluntary – voluntary workers are usually runners. And they will do this to gain experience in the industry and try and work their way up to the top. They usually do the same sort of repetitive jobs day in day out depending on what show they are working on.