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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Media workers, rising Profession


By : DSY

If you have questions, what occupations are most popular or the trend today, the answer could be the media. Such rapid development of technology makes the information flow does not come together to quickly come to the public. Didapuk media as a facilitator in meeting these needs is also automatically each competing to provide the best service to prove itself as the fastest, leading, and reliable.

This of course requires ambition and hard work of the media crew was always at the frontline in delivering information to the public. To carry out this task required the people who qualified, mental and physical steel, creative and highly motivated; the characters themselves are often encountered in the fresh graduates. Therefore, any media (print, electronic, online) now prefer to recruit fresh graduates. This is one reason why this area is increasingly popular among the younger generation who really likes a challenge.

Evidence that professional media workers can be seen as a favorite JobsDB.com Career Expo 2009 event, held on 16 to 18 October 2009, which then at the Balai Kartini Jakarta. Stand firm in the media, from TV stations, radio, newspapers and magazines until the group is always filled by jobseekers are queuing up to apply for available positions as reporter, presenter, announcer, TV journalist, writer, and others.

General Manager of PT. Jobs DB Indonesia, Chandra Ming, acknowledged that public enthusiasm for a career in media companies associated with the image of companies that offer the pride, prestige and the opportunity to earn high income. Moreover, if media companies are interested is fluttering in the forefront of popularity or market segment, as happened in the stand's two national television stations, and Metro Trans. By providing direct camera test, both besieged by job seekers who preyed on the position of news anchor or reporter.

However, media workers is not the kind of profession that requires only a youthful spirit and an attractive physical appearance alone. Therefore, the real media world starts from the field, where all sorts of information obtained to then be processed into a material news or impressions of valuable and useful for society, not necessarily done in the cool air-conditioned studios as well dressed and looking beautiful and ready dealing with the camera.

Here are a few positions in media that increasingly enthused by the jobseekers in Indonesia.

Journalist / reporter / photojournalist. If this profession had very specific and less popular, now is the opposite. Many young people flock to reporters, both for print media, electronic or online. Is that easy to be a reporter? According to the BBC World groundbreaking book works Junaedhie Kurniawan (1993), there are at least 6 (six) the requirements to become a journalist, among others:

• not technology illiterate,
• have a high curiosity and guts,
• master the language (especially good writing skills),
• ethics and etiquette to know (understand the journalistic code of ethics),
• discipline against time deadlines,
• and insightful broad.
• Responsible for the content that made the news also includes an important requirement.


Among the conditions mentioned above, there is no obligation with an educational background in journalism, which means that the profession is open to all disciplines. Meanwhile, writing skills can be obtained in various ways such as attending various training courses plus writing or writing with the tenacity to keep practicing. The rise of blogs or personal pages that allows users to write whatever you want from the simple outpouring, short stories, news, reviews until the article has become a media training and ability to write performance. Advances in technology have actually been to simplify and broaden the opportunity to become a journalist.

Presenter / Master of Ceremony (MC). Unlike the reporter who worked behind the scenes and have to go through three stages (interviews, transcripts, and writing news), the presenter is considered more practical work. By relying on a high confidence, good communication skills, as well as spontaneity, a presenter is ready to guide an event, whether it's news, sports, talk shows, realityshow, quizzes, and others. Earned income was spelled out pretty big, for one-time event, a presenter is able to pocket millions of rupiah, while in a day he can look 2-3 times. IBHS not include the 'bonus' to be famous or at least be remembered by the audience. Therefore, people who are hobby-cuap cuap and dealing with the crowds will find this work very enjoyable and certainly menguntungkan.Diantara conditions mentioned above, there is no obligation with an educational background in journalism, which means that the profession is open for all disciplines of science. Meanwhile, writing skills can be obtained in various ways such as attending various training courses plus writing or writing with the tenacity to keep practicing. The rise of blogs or personal pages that allows users to write whatever you want from the simple outpouring, short stories, news, reviews until the article has become a media training and ability to write performance. Advances in technology have actually been to simplify and broaden the opportunity to become a journalist.

Photographer. Once again, technology has proven its influence on career choices a person. The camera, as the main capital increasingly diverse and sophisticated photographer featurenya, not to mention the existence of software that could edit the photos so that becomes more beautiful and artistic. Supporting existing equipment, living improve photography skills through classes to learn the technique and composition and practice shooting as much as possible, be an amateur photographer. Even if it does not work for a company, a photographer can be a freelancer who handle projects from different clients in addition to business services may also open the wedding photo or the like.

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