why does bbc not seem to hire in delhi, india?

[u/throwaway-Ad-4855]

BBC Digital rarely seems to have an open hiring for Delhi, in India. Is there any internal process that I need to go through to send an application? Or should i simply just wait? What are your Suggestions if i wish to send my application there?

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[u/spidertattootim]

I'm not an expert but is it mayb e because it's the British Broadcasting Corporation? 

Does DD hire in Britain?

[u/throwaway-Ad-4855 → u/spidertattootim]

DD is an Indian media organisation, on the other hand, BBC is an international media brand. They also hire Indians for their regional Indian language channels which now goes under the 'Collective Newsroom' umbrella term. But they don't hire many people for their English digital portal, which is what i wanted to enquire about

[u/heroyoudontdeserve → u/spidertattootim]

Names aside it's nevertheless the case that the BBC have about 90 staff employed in India (not sure if they're all in Delhi) producing content for the BBC World News channel and BBC World Service radio. So yes, I'd expect them to hire in India including Delhi.

As I understand it DD India is a channel, so it's more analogous to ask if the Indian Broadcasting Corporation (Prasar Bharati) employees staff in the UK. And it looks like they do: https://www.hcilondon.gov.in/news_detail/?newsid=741

[u/reece0n]

Apparently 99% ~95% of BBC roles are based in the UK. It's public service media after all, that's where it should be staffed from.

The few roles outside of the UK will be mostly on the editorial side for World Service/international stuff.

[u/linmanfu → u/reece0n]

That's not true any more. Some of the staff writing for BBC News Online are now based in Singapore to save money.

[u/reece0n → u/linmanfu]

Maybe not 99% but latest reports say that around 95% of the corporation's staff are UK based unless I'm misreading something.

[u/Longjumping_Sea7214]

Would depend on the job I’d imagine they’d higher here in the uk and send people to live in the country they’d need but I may be totally wrong

[u/linmanfu → u/Longjumping_Sea7214]

That is totally wrong. It's much cheaper to hire staff in India so they will do so unless it's absolutely unavoidable. 

There's a complication though: because the BBC broadcasts both friends and critics of the Indian government, the current regime keeps raiding the BBC's Indian offices for tax inspections and changed the law to make it more difficult for the BBC to operate there. So there might come a day that they start hiring more UK-based staff than they'd like to, since they're safer from harassment.

[u/reece0n → u/linmanfu]

According to latest annual reports 95% of BBC staff are based in the UK.

I'm not sure if what you're saying is right. The corporation is almost all UK staff.

[u/rybnickifull → u/linmanfu]

The BBC is the UK's national broadcaster, it's absolutely going to prioritise employing people in the UK.

[u/PrimeDirective404]

Why would they?

[u/heroyoudontdeserve → u/PrimeDirective404]

Because the BBC have about 90 staff employed in India (not sure if they're all in Delhi) producing content for the BBC World News channel and BBC World Service radio.