EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT APRIL 1, 2016 MARCH 31, 2017 1. Full-Time vacancies filled during preceding year: Corporate Sales Assistant Multi-Media Journalist Assistant Chief Engineer Multi-Media Producer/Director 2. See attached list of recruitment sources used to fill each vacancy. The same list was used to fill all the above vacancies, with additional sources used specifically for the engineering vacancy (noted on list). 3. Recruitment source of each person hired and recruitment source for each person interviewed for full-time vacancies: Corporate Sales Assistant filled May 2016 Current part-time WNIN employee performing this job was promoted to a full-time position with additional responsibility. Multi-Media Journalist filled June 2016 Current part-time WNIN employee was promoted to a full-time position. Assistant Chief Engineer filled November 2016 person hired was referred by a posting with Ivy Tech Community College career services 4 others were interviewed, 2 referred through personal contact with other local TV stations by WNIN engineering staff, 1 referred by the Local Veterans Employment Representative at the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, 1 referred by Indeed.com. Multi-Media Producer/Director filled February 2017 person hired was referred by a posting on the WNIN website 4 others were interviewed, 2 referred by a posting on indeed.com, 2 referred by a posting on the WNIN website. 4. A total of 12 people were interviewed for the above 4 full-time vacancies filled during the period. The number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source is as follows: 3 WNIN website 3 Indeed.com 2 Current WNIN employee was promoted 2 Personal contact by WNIN staff with other local TV stations 1 Ivy Tech Community College career services 1 Local Veterans Employment Representative at the IN Department of Workforce Dev. 5. Recruitment initiatives undertaken by WNIN during this period: #1 WNIN participated in a job fair at the University of Evansville on February 28, 2017. A number of students stopped to speak with our recruiter, our VP of Finance and Administration, about internships and employment opportunities, a number of whom were women and minorities. We are working to line up internships with students who stopped by. WNIN offers internships in radio, TV, community engagement / communications, events, and engineering with students from all area universities. A former student intern from the university is now a full-time WNIN staff member.
#1 WNIN participated in 2 job fairs at the University of Southern Indiana on September 21, 2016 and February 22, 2017. Many students stopped with our recruiter at each fair, our Vice President of Finance and Administration, about internships and current fulltime and part-time job openings. We hired several interns from these fairs. #1 WNIN will participate in a job fair at Ivy Tech on April 5, 2017, recruiting for parttime and full-time job openings, internships, and event volunteers. In 2017 Ivy Tech is holding 3 different career fairs each targeted to specific majors and areas of interest. This upcoming fair is geared to technology students. #1 WNIN participated in a job fair at Harrison College on October 13, 2016. We recruited for current job openings and internships; the college also emphasized general employer networking by students to gain experience. #1 WNIN participated in a job fair at the Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center on November 2, 2016. This was geared towards Junior and Senior high school students who were looking for jobs and internships in specific fields including broadcasting. The manager of the student radio station at the center is a former WNIN employee. Last year several students from the school volunteered at WNIN to gain experience. #4 WNIN participated in an activity sponsored by a community group to inform others about employment opportunities in broadcasting. We hosted 5 eighth grade students from Holy Rosary Catholic School on October 21, 2016 as part of the National Job Shadow program sponsored by Junior Achievement. This provided the students an opportunity to work with WNIN content and production staff in both TV and Radio, where the students produced a short spot for air. #4 WNIN participated in a College and Career Fair at Central High School for high school seniors on October 19, 2016 to provide them with information about types of career opportunities in broadcasting, and the education and training requirements for these jobs. #4 WNIN participated in the Career Exploration Day sponsored by Southwest Indiana College Access Network (SICAN) and Junior Achievement on September 28, 2016. We spoke with 8 th 12 th grade students from many area middle and high schools about types of careers available in public broadcasting, and the expected education needed for these careers. #5 Establishment of an internship program. WNIN s internship program continues to successfully work with 10-15 students per year from all area colleges and universities including the University of Southern Indiana, University of Evansville, Ivy Tech, Indiana University, and others in the area. These internships spanned all semesters, spring, summer and fall, and our interns were all part of their universities formal internship programs, working at least 150 hours and receiving college credit for the internships. Student interns worked at WNIN in TV, station events (Auction, Kid s Fest, and other station events), communications, and radio (news/reporting, and Summer of Music
production). We are currently recruiting students for internships in the summer and fall of 2017 after the recent round of spring job fairs in all these areas, and hope to hire several shortly. We have also been approved for a grant from the Lilly Foundation for 2 internship positions for the summer 2017. #8 WNIN participates in ongoing job training. Many employees attend local seminars and training opportunities to develop and enhance their skills and job performance, including skills to perform other jobs of interest. These included local seminars on employee benefit and human resource topics, and a one-day Plan Sponsor University for retirement plan administrators. WNIN s CEO and Vice President of Development are participating in Leadership Evansville, a leadership development program. We conducted Disc Leadership training for all staff (full-time and part-time) on July 7, 2016 and Strengths Finders training on July 8, 2016 for all full-time staff. These trainings allowed staff to learn more about their own personal strengths, as well as how to work with others who possess similar or different strengths from their own; staff also gained awareness of what co-workers individual strengths were to help all work better together. WNIN participated in an exchange program through IREX with a TV station in Ukraine, TV Avers. Two different groups of 3 Ukrainian station staff, with interpreters spent a week in Evansville working with WNIN staff and several commercial TV stations (WNIN hosted the visitors). A group of 3 WNIN staff (production and journalists), with interpreters spent a week at TV Avers in the Ukraine working with their staff creating a valuable training opportunity for all involved. WNIN was awarded a national grant for 2017 to develop a new podcast series, including national level training for 2 WNIN staff on podcast development (currently in progress). #10 On March 20, 2017 WNIN hosted a group of 7 high school students from Evansville Day School, as part of the school s week-long Intersession program. The program organizes students by areas of interest, and the students visit a number of organizations related to their area of interest to learn more about careers in the field, and participate in hands on activities. The group we hosted were interested in broadcast, production and media careers. WNIN has a website to promote all aspects of our operations. All job openings and announcements are posted on our website.
e-mail list: iucareer@indiana.edu Elizabeth Bolyard (812-855-1556) Indiana University Arts & Science Placement Career Development Center 625 N Jordan Bloomington, IN 47405 May post on their site Career.center@kysu.edu Elizabeth Marcum (502-597-5948) Career Planning Office Kentucky State University East Main Street Frankfort, KY 40601 bfox@evansvillegov.org Bonnie Fox (812-436-4927) Human Relations Comm City-County Bldg, Room 209 Evansville, IN 47708 Fax: 812-436-4929 careercenter@bsu.edu 765-285-2420 Ball State University Career Center Muncie, IN 47306 Fax: 765-285-3757 May also post direct: bsu.edu\students\careers\employers\ login\. Ewillem@itt-tech.edu Elizabeth Willem 812-858-1600 ITT 10999 Stahl Road Newburgh, IN 47630 Fax: 812-858-0646 Closed September 2016 sarah.jackson@brescia.edu Sarah Jackson (270-686-4268) Brescia College Career Services Office 717 Frederica Street Owensboro, KY 42301 Fax: 270-686-6422 isu-career-center@mail.indstate.edu Christa Stultz (812-237-2586) Indiana State University Career Center Terre Haute, IN 47809 Fax : 812-237-4392 JobLine : career.indstate.edu May post on their site mmyers173@ivytech.edu Monica Myers (812-429-1422) Ivy Tech Community College Career Services 3501 First Ave. Evansville, IN 47710 Fax: 812-429-9834 Have jobzone (job listings line) Katie.ballard@kctcs.edu 270-686-4529 Kate Ballard Owensboro Comm. College 4800 New Hartford Rd. Owensboro, KY 42303 Fax: 270-686-4487 dd-schmitt@wiu.edu Dawn Schmitt (309-764-2400) WQPT-TV 24 3800 Avenue of the Cities Suite 101 Moline, IL 61265 jerry.kolb@wtvp.org Jerry Kolb, Interim CEO Irene (AA) 309-677-4747 WTVP Illinois Public TV Corp 1501 W Bradley Ave. Peoria, IL 61625 maupperle@wnit.org Mary Aupperle 574-675-9648 WNIT PO Box 3434 Elkhart, IN 46515 rcoleman@vinu.edu Richard Coleman (812-888-4501) WVUB-FM Vincennes University 1002 N. 1 st Street Vincennes, IN 47591 Fax: 812-888-2201 Careerservices@evansville.edu Gene Wells 812-479-2663 University of Evansville Career Services 1800 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47722 Fax: 812-488-2156 Manager@nipr.fm Lea Denny (260-452-1189) WBNI-FM 3204 Clairmont Ct. PO Box 8459 Ft. Wayne, IN 46898 Fax: 260-452-1188 Plparker@usi.edu Phillip Parker 812-464-1865 University of Southern Indiana Career Services & Placement 8600 University Blvd Evansville, IN 47712 Fax: 812-464-1960 Lrowe@butler.edu Linda Rowe (800-368-6852) WAJC-FM Butler University 4600 Sunset Ave. Indianapolis, IN 40208 Fax: 317-940-6481 bneigh2@illinois.edu 217-333-0820 Brian Neighbors University of Illinois 715 S. Wright Street Champaign, IL 61820 Fax : 217-333-0122 lpolnitz@fsmail.bradley.edu Lisa Polnitz 309-677-3690 WCBU-FM Bradley University 1501 W Bradley Ave. Peoria, IL 61625 Employerrelations@wku.edu Robert Unseld 270-745-3095 Western Kentucky University Career Services Center 3094 College Heights Blvd.#11057 Bowling Green, KY 42101 Fax: 270-745-3094 humanresources@wfwa.org Tom Theard (260-484-8839) WFWA PBS-39 2501 E. Coliseum Blvd. Ft. Wayne, IN 46805 kwatson@vinu.edu Kevin Watson 812-888-4950 WVUT-TV 22 1200 N 2 nd St. Vincennes, IN 47591 Fax: 812-882-2237 Geraldarnold1992@yahoo.com (812) 426-1311 NAACP Reverend Gerald Arnold P.O. Box 555 Evansville, IN 47704-0555 Fax: (812) 962-9452
vallen@ulofnwi.org Vanessa Allen (219-887-9621) Urban League of NW Indiana 3101 Broadway Gary, IN 46408 information@lul.org Anita McGruder (502-561-6830) Louisville Urban League 1535 West Broadway Louisville, KY 40203 jgambach@siu.edu Jennie Gambach 618-453-7713 Dean s Office WSIU-FM 618-453-6183 Delores Kerstein Communications Building 1100 Lincoln Dr. Southern IL University Carbondale, IL 62901 Fax : 618-453-7714 jobs@tvjobs.com Broadcast Employment Services Mark Holloway (800) 374-0119 P. O. Box 4116 Oceanside, CA 92052 ipr@bsu.edu Indiana Public Radio Andrea Lutz, Admin. Coordinator (765) 285-1249 Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 Oak.edu then go to job board Oakland City University Campus Life Office Oakland City, IN 47660 Elaine Pauw (812-749-1394) epauw@oak.edu Fax # 812-749-1420 Fax List: Community Action Program 401 S.E. 6 th Street, Suite 001 Evansville, IN 47713-1927 Torey Suggs (812-425-4241 x.223) Fax # 812-425-4255 Evansville Black Coalition 720 Lincoln Ave. Evansville, IN 47713-2353 Bobby Ogburn (812-423-5291) Fax # 812-423-5337 Posting on Their Site: http://www.cpb.org/user Post on CPB jobline CPB 401 Ninth St., NW Washington, DC 20004 NPR Doesn t directly post station job openings. Links directly to local station websites need to enter station zip code to find. IN Dept. of Workforce Dev. 700 E. Walnut Evansville, IN 47712 Phone: 812-424-4473 Fax: 812-421-3189 Post on Indianacareerconnect.com Also contacted the Local Veterans Employment Rep. Harrison College hireharrison.com Click on hire Harrison for employers Go into my jobs & enter new job Vincennes University Go to website www.vinu.edu On red banner campus services On side banner- center of career & Employer relations Select Blazer Careerlink Follow blue link Employers posting Jobs & internships Additional Outreach for Engineering Position: Electronics Research, Inc. 7777 Gardner Road Chandler, IN 47610 Tom Silliman, CEO 812-925-6000 tom@eriinc.com Elizabeth Scheller-Williams Adjunct Professor at ITT Tech 812-925-6000, ext. 283 ewilliams@eriinc.com WNIN Engineer personal outreach to other local TV stations WNIN Internal Postings: 1. Webmaster post on WNIN website 2. Post internally at WNIN on breakroom bulletin board Publications to run paid ads if needed: 3. Current Newspaper 4. Evansville Courier monster.com (online)