Top Tips to Widen Your Search for Talent
To find the best talent for a role, you need to attract as wide a pool of applicants as possible. Considering diversity when recruiting can reap numerous benefits for your organisation, both creatively and commercially.​
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Set yourself a diversity target. Have it in your mind that you want at least 20 per cent of shortlisted applicants to come from under-represented backgrounds
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Avoid limiting your job search to a word-of-mouth search of existing contacts or always using the same agencies, head-hunters, or publications
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Advertise the roles on your own and others' social media networks
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Use contractor databases
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Use an agent committed to sourcing diverse new talent
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Widen your search to the creative industries more generally
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Think about job sharing
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Contact organisations that train individuals for a career in TV
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Search for organisations providing experts in their fields for on-screen factual roles
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Check out membership organisations aimed at particular contractors
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Capture new talent before they graduate by advertising in academic institutions or attending careers fairs
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Check out YouTube and other social media networks for breakthrough talent
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Avoid using unpaid internships
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Links to relevant organisations and sites to widen your talent pool:
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Triforce Creative Network – Including Monologue Slam talent showcase for actors from diverse backgrounds.
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VisABLE People – A talent agency that provides professional on-screen opportunities for disabled actors, presenters, and models.
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Working in TV – A Facebook group for TV professionals to post vacancies and apply for roles.
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Loving Your Work – Facebook group for TV professionals to post vacancies and apply for roles.
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Project Noir – Facebook group for TV professionals from BAME backgrounds.
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Mama Youth – Trains young people from under-represented groups to work in the media industry on- and off-screen.
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The TV Collective – Offers information on development, training, networking, and job opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds.
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Media parents – A website that includes vacancies specifically aimed at those looking for flexible working.
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Searchlight – A recruitment agency specialising in TV and media industry roles.
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