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This is an observation on the kinds of media jobs advertised and those which are not advertised. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong.
When I applied for a traineeship in broadcasting, I responded to an advertisement in the SMH.
If one was working for a statutory authority or large business, the positions would normally be advertised internally and sometimes externally. Internally-advertised positions were not available to the public.
Sometimes if one was working in organization X, a person from organization Y would ring up and say "....does anyone want a job at organization Y in a 'particular division' ?" Such positions generally were not publicly advertised. Though one broadcasting organisation ('Y') advertised that job in a 'particular division' for several months in the SMH.
I stand corrected for this. Most of the jobs advertised were generally for engineering, production, clerical and miscellaneous positions. This may be in the newspapers and digital job placement sites such as seek.
In these days of job reduction or cutting hours, it may well be that recruiting of staff may well be 'internal' rather than externally-advertised jobs once the business picks up - this does not only apply to media jobs, it could well be coffee shops where the 'boss' calls a redudant worker "....hey our business is picking up....would you like your job back......"
HOWEVER, my observation is that presenter jobs on radio and tv have never been advertised to the public in a the "jobs vacant" section in the newspapers, Seek or even the Centrelink/Job agency computers. This is regardless of whether the positions were for the ABC/SBS or commercial media.
Maybe some positions are advertised on this website or "Jock's Journal".
But generally it seems that for presenters positions are not obtained by well-worn paths of the journal, newspaper, Seek and Centrelink/Job Club.
It may well be that other kinds of positions in the media may well come from non-conventional paths based on people working within a particular media organization.
For example, while listening to 2GB's Ben Fordham's afternoon program, he'd often talk about new appointments such as production assistants who were invited and recommended by someone within 9Media/2GB. Even for Ben himself being appointed to the breakfast program, it was a personal recommendation not from responding to newspaper advertisements, Seek, media journals or the Centrelink/Job Club computers.
As the economy improves, unless there is no need to employ or there is no destructive technologies, it may well be that former employees or new employees will get a media position or any kind of job through personal recommendation in which the statistics are not reflected in the "job advertisement" statistics obtained from newspapers, job agencies and Seek.
Thank you,
Anthony from thinking Belfield