Experiences at Clear Channel Radio

Be experienced, be confident, be flexible.

My friends. The professionals who I worked with day in and day out.

I don't know; we were too busy working! :)

Being at the largest group of radio stations in the market, owned by the largest radio group in the nation, you will sometimes feel a "target" on your back when it comes to market perception of the company. You also must prepare yourself for the volume of work given to you and understand any form of media brings with it constant change....

I awkwardly fell on my shoulder during a Clear Channel-team softball game and ended up in a sling for ten weeks and having surgery for a class III separated shoulder. Apparently the way which I fell and subsequently bounced back up and returned to the bench was very comical; it created laughs in our office for the three years following....

Other than mine, I really don't know.

A combination of my department (creative, continuity, and production) and the traffic department. The departments work SO closely together that those on the outside looking in would think we all were in one department. We had a group of creative minds with low egos, and genuine caring about each other....

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---Be open to working with a diverse group of people, requiring you to deal with lots of different personalities
---Learn as much as you can, specifically offering to learn additional areas of work once you have mastered that which you were hired to do
---Be prepared for rejection. Even though you aren't a sales executive, you are working closely with them if you are in the position I was in, so your copywriting, production, and advertising advice can be nixed by potential or current clients. Don't take it personal; in fact, keep the ideas for another time when another advertiser may love the material and want to use it!...

---The ability to expand people skills working with so many different types of personalities
---Additional experience/information in other areas of radio I have experience in, but was not assigned to do in this particular position.
---Enjoy each day with your friends and associates and take nothing for granted....