Yesterday evening I was discussing work experience with a friend.
She told me that a new work experience recruit – a relative of one of the bosses in her office – showed little enthusiasm and clearly didn’t
want to be there.
That made their presence a waste of two people’s time, because my colleague had to spend much of her time finding things that might interest the sullen teenager sat opposite her.
Why force someone to use up an opportunity that many people would pay to have?
Natural selection
When we did the pilot version of Me In TV, the only rule for Community Links was this: they had to choose people who had a pre-existing interest in working in TV.
Thank goodness we did.
One of my favourite bits of feedback from the day was from Neil, who ran the edit training:
It’s so great that these guys really care. You can tell they’re really excited to be here because they keep
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The people who will benefit most are the people who have already gone out of their way to do something related.
The guys we brought in that day included a budding actor/presenter, a cameraman, and an editor. They had no idea that spending time on those things might create opportunities for them a few years down the line, but they did it anyway.
A pre-existing interest is people picking themselves – the
most natural form of selection.
This was one of the most important lessons we learned, and it will guide the selection of the participants in Me In TV.