How do you get a job in a radio station?

If you want to know how to get a job in a radio station, then you really need to learn more about the Radio Connection, where you will be trained in a studio, with a mentor teacher. Classrooms in a college or broadcast school won't do it. You need to get a teacher who is a real radio professional working in the business, as opposed to a college teacher who is not or never has been in the business. What is cool is that you can train around your job.

This accredited program is where you get trained by a working pro who could help you get a job after you graduate, one-on-one in a real radio station, learning the professionals AT the station -- whether you want to learn how to be a DJ, or get a job as a program director, or be an audio engineer. After 23 years, the Radio Connection has worked with over 5,000 stations in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, teaching students from 17 to 60 years old. It is like a job placement goldmine.

This isn't a traditional internship - it is an apprenticeship. By the time you are done you will have audition demo tapes and your instructor, typically the program director, is the one who will help you produce the demos. The biggest difference is that you get trained with equipment you need nowadays, not out of date equipment in a college. You get a feel for what is going on. Plus you can train around your job, slowly easing into the radio environment as you learn the curriculum.

Most of the students, and mentors agree -- mentorship programs for broadcasting school is the way it will be done in the future, because it is the best way to learn the radio business one-on one with a working professional.

The program is virtually everywhere. The way it works is that we get you an interview for your mentor in your home town. Our students usually get a job where they train. There are structured assignments and tests, but it is easy and fun when you get to learn the real job at a real radio station. Here's what one Radio Career Connection mentor - Chuck Dogg who is teaching at our New York radio DJ school - has to say.

People don't get hired in a college. If a job becomes available at the station where you are learning, nine times out of ten you will get it. You are in a structured radio connection course written by broadcast professionals, there are supplies and equipment at the station for you to use as you learn to be a music engineer, or a radio announcer, for example, hands on.