Annual Employment Report:
Employment Unit WVOK AM/FM
Period Covered: 12/01/24– 12/09/25
Outreach Efforts
Job Fair
WOODARD BROADCASTING held one of our required JOB FAIR at Chick-Fil-A in Oxford Alabama on Friday January 24th 2025. This is located in one of the busiest areas in our city, The Oxford Exchange. We promoted the event through different channels so we could get the word out and inform our community. Leading up to the job fair. WOODARD BROADCASTING ran 2 announcements a day for TWO calendar weeks as we always do from the week’s Friday January 10th 2025 thru Friday January 24th 2025 for 21 mentions. In addition to the on the air recorded promo and like years past, WOODARD BROADCASTING used social media for this such as facebook and twitter. Plus we announced it on our promo sheet that our on –air staff read throughout their on-air shift. This job fair was from 9:30 am until 11:30am with Operations Manager Steve Stephens on location to handout out information packets about the different jobs positions at WOODARD BROADCASTING ranging from Management, Traffic, Sales and programming and in addition these information packets covered how to apply and where to apply in the event of an opening and instructed future applicants to check on our website for job postings at WWW.979WVOK.COM approx 10 people showed up to learn more about WOODARD BROADCASTING.and our jobs that we have here at our station.
Job fair #2
Wednesday November 12th 2025 WOODARD BROADCASTING held the 2nd required JOB FAIR and once again we were fortunately enough to hold this at Chick-Fil-a in Oxford’s Exchange. Our contact person was Cindy Garmen and had us a booth designated for this. Just like with the previous job fair, WOODARD BROADCASTING promoted this event with on air promos. The week leading up to the Job Fair. WOODARD BROADCASTING made 10 announcements leading up to it sporadically through the week of November 5th 2025 through November 12th 2025.. The event was from 9:45 am-11:45 am with Operations Manager Steve Stephens and General Manager Chuck Woodard meeting with people and handing out information packets about the different jobs that we have here at WOODARD BROADCASTING with a brief description of the duties that come with each job. In addition to that, the packets also show where inquiring applicants can look on our 979WVOK.COM website for any and all job openings that we very seldom have, however on rare occasions we do have some here at WOODARD BROADCASTING. Once again as in previous times. WOODARD BROADCASTING encouraged everyone to check our WWW.979WVOK.COM website. .We had approx 15 interested people that came out just to get more information.
Outreach Announcements
Whether or not a specific position is available, the Woodard Broadcasting Group Oxford airs: 30 spots on its stations. The spot instructs the work force in our community of license as follows:“WVOK is always looking for bright, qualified individuals to fill open job positions. If you are interested in being part of the WVOK team, visit the jobs section of 979WVOK.COM Once again, employment information is available in the jobs section of our website at 979WVOK.COM. WVOK is an equal opportunity employer” 52 announcements were aired on both WVOK FM and WVOK AM between December 1, 2024 thru December 1, 2025 Monday – Sunday 6A-6A. Spots will continue to air throughout 2026. Secondly, WOODARD BROADCASTING aired 52:30 spots seeking organizations that provide job services: “WVOK is an equal opportunity employer. Any organization or educational institution that maintains a job bank, provides employment information or job referrals may ask to receive our job listings”
Employment
WOODARD BROADCASTING did not hire anyone during this calendar year and had the same staff as 2024
Station Website :
979WVOK.COM
This site contains a section “JOBS” explaining what the different jobs WOODARD
BROADCASTING provides and how to apply for these jobs if one comes available. We also provide the list of recruiting agencies with the links to their websites that we use to post openings
Recruiting services for Woodard Broadcasting
WOODARD BROADCASTING will post openings in the event of a job vacancy either by email,fax or mail to these agencies:
Alabama State employment service 1721 Oxmoor Rd # 109, Birmingham, AL 35209 – (205) 870-3275
Alabama broadcaster’s Association job bank – fax 205-982-0015
Jacksonville State University Placement service- 207 Merrill Hall 700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, Alabama 36265 phone….256-782-5482 …email mjames3@jsu.edu
Gadsden State 1001 George Wallace Dr, Gadsden, AL 35903 phone (256) 549-8200…email careerservices@gadsdenstate.edu
Talladega College Career Planning and Placement service Talladega College 627 Battle Street West Talladega, AL 35160 Phone (866) 540-3956
Internship Program with Oxford High School and Jacksonville State University
During this 2025 calendar year, WOODARD BROADCASTING did participate with
JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY and OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL with their Intern program to allow students interested in broadcasting to have hands-on experiences with this business. I want to stress that this program isnt limited to Oxford High school as in the past we have had students from different schools in our area….White Plains, Anniston, Jacksonville, Wellborn to name a few. Interns learn to do work “On – Air”, production duties, writing and producing commercials and how to do and conduct live remotes.Even though we did participate, The University didn’t send us any candidates for this. We are hoping they will send us some interested candidates in the upcoming calendar year.
Job Shadowing
Occasionally WOODARD BROADCASTING will have students from area high schools come in for a week to job shadow. This is a great tool as they learn behind the scenes workings for a radio station for a week and then the student has to write a paper on their experience. Unfortunately we had no job shadowing during 2025
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If you have questions concerning this report please contact Chuck Woodard (General Manager) or Steve Stephens (Operations Manager) during business hours (256) 835-1580
