Tweeting Your Way to a Job in TV News
/I think it is a good bet that more people have lost their jobs, due to something they tweeted, then got a job.
But, we want to focus on the positive and how one young man was able to land a new job thanks to a tweet.
David Schiele sent out this tweet that included his demo reel and it landed him a job at WBIR. This was the tweet he sent out one year ago:
I will be graduating from Georgia State University in December and am looking for my first sports reporter/anchor job. Your RT would help me out tremendously! pic.twitter.com/sdZHiCueKu
— David Schiele WBIR (@Deacon_Schiele) November 5, 2018
A year later, he’s working at WBIR and he did a follow up on Twitter about how that first tweet blew up and landed him a new job: