Entry Level Qualification 

12

Career Fields 

Mass Media, Journalism & Entertainment

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

No Entrance Exam

About Career 

As a Radio Jockey, you will be working in the broadcasting industry. You will have to take on many roles at the workplace such as a talk show host, or live sports events reporter, and so on. Your responsibilities will be to play music/songs on air; hold discussions with listeners; conduct on-air interviews with famous personalities, promote products during shows, and advertise for various brands. You may also speak about other issues like local/national stories, on weather, and provide information about songs/movies/general trivia in between shows.

Usually, you have to follow scripts for certain types of broadcasting. However, sometimes you may be required to improvise radio shows/content as you go. It is crucial that you have a pleasant, soothing, and smooth voice and the ability to keep your listeners engaged with witty comments and humor. Along with good communication skills, you should possess a friendly, dynamic, and spontaneous vibe so that your audience can instantly connect with you.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

1. To ideate, create, design, develop, produce, and host shows on radio channels, specially FM.

2. To research on different topics based on which the shows can be scripted.

3. To conduct audience research to identify the target audience of specific radio shows and plan/script them accordingly.

4. To prepare and write scripts for radio shows, interviews, etc.

5. To listen to various genres of music (pop, indie pop, rock, classical, hip-hop, etc.) on a daily basis.

6. To prepare daily program schedules.

7. To update the radio station’s website about upcoming programs, interviews, etc.

8. To deliberate upon the nature, approach, and style of the show (whether to use an enthusiastic tone, or to go for a romantic tone, etc.).

9. To handpick the songs for music hour programs as well as the jingles/advertisements that play in between the shows.

10. To interview famous personalities/celebrities from showbiz/politics/business,etc., on-air.

11. To interact with audience during live radio programs.

12. To promote brands/sponsors both during or in between the programs .

13. To promote radio programs to prospective sponsors/clients.

14. To make personal appearances in social/public events or parties.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies - Class 11-12 with any other subject as per scheme of studies - Appear for talent hunts conducted by radio channels/Undertake Radio Jockey training programs/courses in Media Training Institutes.

After completing Class 11-12 with any other subject as per scheme of studies, you may appear for talent hunts conducted by radio channels or you may undertake Radio Jockey Training programs/courses in Media Training Institutes.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

1. You don’t need any specific qualification to become a RJ. You may choose to complete your school education and then participate in a RJ Talent Hunt. Quite a few radio channels conduct Talent Hunt program. However, it may not happen every year.

2. You may do a training program in RJ/DJ. This may help you to pick up a few tricks. But you can always teach yourself online. What you need in ample amount is your passion for music belonging to different genres. You should be someone who listen to music almost all the time.  

Competencies Required

Interests

1. Artistic: You should have interests for Artistic Occupations. Artistic occupations mostly involve working with creative ideas, art and designs. These occupations involve abstract or conceptual thinking, creative self-expression and often do not follow any set processes or rules for getting things done.

2. Enterprising: You should have interests for Enterprising Occupations. Enterprising occupations involve taking initiatives, initiating actions, and planning to achieve goals, often business goals. These involve gathering resources and leading people to get things done. These require decision making, risk taking and action orientation.

Abilities

1. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behaviour or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emptions and situations.

2. Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

3. Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.

4. Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or innovative ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Knowledge

Performing Arts: Knowledge about the theories and techniques required for producing various works of performing arts such as music, dance, drama, theatre, film, television series, etc.

Skills

1. Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

2. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

3. Musical Instrument: Skills in playing musical instrument of your choice.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.

2. You are always imaginative or in most situations.

3. You always prefer to experience new things and have new experiences or you mostly do.

4. You can always act independently or could do so in most situations.

5. You trust others sometimes but not always.

6. You are helpful to others sometimes.

7. You are mostly impulsive in your action and behaviour.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

You will get job as a Radio Jockey in radio stations and radio channels.

Work environment

Radio Jockeys work in radio stations. It is not the run-of-the-mill 9-5 job. Radio Jockeys usually begin their day very early in the morning (say 6 am), and continue working till late evening. They might do their work in shifts (morning shift or everning shift), depending upon the time slot of their shows. Often, they have to work extra hours for brainstorming on new shows, or for the content of existing shows, and planning programs.

Career Growth

You will begin your career as a Radio Jockey. After 8-10 years of experience, you can get promoted to Executive Producer. After 12-15 years of experience, you can upgrade to the position of Programming Head of a channel.

Salary Offered  

1. For Radio Jockeys, the earning prospects largely depend on their popularity. For instance, a Radio Jockey might become massively popular with just one show, or it may take years to come under the limelight. Usually, the more popular you are, the higher is your pay scale.

2. However, at the beginning of your career, you will earn around Rs. 10,000 - 20,000 per month.

3. After 3-7 years, your average monthly earning will be around Rs. 50,000 - 1,10,000.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large.

2. Creative thinking: Developing new ideas, concepts, innovative solutions to problems, newer ways of getting things done, designing products and services, creating work of art and craft, etc.

3. Decision making and problem solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

4. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

5. Organizing, planning and prioritising tasks: Planning and organising tasks in order to achieve work goals; prioritising tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

6. Performing for people: Performing various tasks for people to entertain them, help them, and assist them.

7. Rendering music: Playing various musical instruments.