Jobs at WARM

[Seltzer]

2 posted on All Access.

Full time PM drive

and

Full time overnights.

Any takers? Proceed with caution.....

[bossjock 56]

The PM DRIVE position calls for HOT AC/AC background.  Shall we end the speculation.....or could it be a smoke screen.

[Seltzer]

With the fall ratings period here, I doubt you'll see any format change.  Still CHR is a possibility next year. We'll have to wait and see.

[Seltzer]

If you are considering this...here's something to consider....

Something kind of important was left out of the job description---------------Required sales calls.

Cumulus/York instituted a new requirement for all non sales personnel back in the spring  (according to a source of mine well entrenched in the building)

A half hour to an hour's worth of sales calls every day.  This idea was developed to save jobs.  Since it was instituted, a high number of people have been shown the door anyway, or have left.

Speaks volumes of the character of the person doing the hiring that this fact was left out of the job descriptions.  Fraud comes to mind.

Proceed with caution...

Talent & content does still matter. But not at Cumulus/York.

[real_radioguy]

WOW Seltzer.your source IS right, sales calls MANDATORY.  They're not working but still mandatory.

[karlyle]

Would love to see the list of clients that the "full time overnights" position has to call....bars, convenience stores??? Not too many decision makers available at 11 PM or 6 AM....what has happened to this market?

[Radio Babe]

...So in "Cumulus World" the talent HAS to do the salesperson's job?....Do the salespeople help out with show prep and maybe some weekend tracking?

Why don't you have the talent call some prospective LISTENER'S?...There is a reason that jocks are jocks and sales are sales....

Either way it's a waste of energy..."Pissing in the ocean to raise the tide"?...

[bub]

Would love to see the list of clients that the "full time overnights" position has to call....bars, convenience stores??? Not too many decision makers available at 11 PM or 6 AM....what has happened to this market?

Aren't you forgetting the houses of ill repute? 

[HardCore]

The mandatory sales calls strike me as more than a touch insulting and potentially counterproductive.  I mean, if I were a cracker-jack sales guy from WARM 103 with a knack for the cold call, I'd hate to call a business who has already been contacted by some awkward deejay who might not know the right words to say.  The bad impression has already been left in that business owner/manager's mouth, and could cost me the sale.

What's more, if the jock should make an appointment, the real salespeople swoop in and nail down the sale.  The jock gets what?  A pat on the back?  A satisfied feeling?  Or does the GM come down and say, "Good job.  Keep it up and you won't wind up like Kelly West." ?

[vetguy]

A WARM staff member still there who has had to make calls indicated that corporate had passed the word down to up sales or more bodies go. Mandatory sales calls were implemented by the local management in order to attempt to keep anyone else from getting fired. Another version of the story. Maybe Kelly would not make the calls??