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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: POSTING
OF JOB VACANCIES ON OUR WEBSITE |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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| In
order to promote community awareness of employment opportunities in media, we
post job openings on our website. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME OF ACTIVITY: JOB TALK BROADCAST |
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| Asterisk Communications runs an on-air Job
Talk Show every Saturday from 11:30am - Noon in the Gainesville area and is |
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by Florida Employer Advisory Council, Inc. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: ONE
STOP WORKFORCE CONNECTION |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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| Asterisk
Communications has partnered with One Stop Workforce Connection. Together we have
developed an internet page |
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radio broadcasting career opportunities that links to One Stop Workforce
Connection job placement website.
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| we run public service announcements making the
public aware of the website and promoting One Stop's Job Fairs. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: UNIVERSITY
of FLORIDA JOB & INTERNSHIP FAIR |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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March 25, 2010, our General Manager, John Starr, participated in interviewing
students seeking radio internships and jobs at |
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of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Media from around the State of Florida were
in attendance. He |
| interviewed six students and as a result, six
individuals, one of which was an intern, were offered positions. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: INTERNSHIP
PROGRAM-OCALA |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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| Our intern in the programming department has
learned many skills including formulation of promotional concepts, production
skills, |
| general advertising campaigns, business
management and agency commercial dubbing.
The intern is guided by an employee in our |
| program department. We provide training on various equipment as
well as guidance to carry out the assignments. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: INTERNSHIP
PROGRAM-GAINESVILLE |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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| The staff of Asterisk Communications in
Gainesville have been training three interns.
One intern is learning radio sales by attending |
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meeting, shadowing sales reps and writing ad copies as well as sales
proposals. One is showing interest in
our political talk |
| show and has been learning how to produce the
show. Another expressed interest in
sports talk show and has sufficiently learned |
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to produce the shows that she was offered a position as a part-time employee. |
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| YEAR: 2010 |
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY: MARION
COUNTY CUB SCOUT PACK 440 |
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| Description of Initiative: |
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| On September 20th, Thunder Country 102.3 and
Big 92.9 hosted the Marion County Cub Scout Pack 440 for an |
| in-studio visit where eight youngsters were
led by their parents and troop leader James Vernon. The local troop is |
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to earn their communication badge and this visit helped fulfill the
requirements. WTRS personalities
Rob |
| Stewart and Joe explained on-air broadcasting,
radio sales, commercial production and radio promotions. The troop |
| members and their families enjoyed meeting the
radio broadcasters and watching the equipment. Future troops are |
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to make us part of their studies. |
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