MUMBAI: Malayalam channel Asianet is on a hiring spree. In an advertisement placed in Times of India's Ascent supplement, dated 6 September, the channel has invited applications from professionals in the fields of finance, human resources, technical operations, programming and journalism.

The vacancies advertised by the channel include chief financial officer, human resources head, chief technical officer, deputy managing editor, assistant vice-president programming and regional managers.

Except for regional managers who will be based in Kochi/ Mumbai, all the above-mentioned positions will be based in Thiruvananthapuram.

The channel has also called for applications from trainees. The positions advertised are executive trainees (marketing, finance, HR/ administration), trainee engineers (networking, transmission, sound engineer/ recordist) and trainee journalists.

Applications may be submitted within seven days by: (a) Online submission (www.asianetglobal.com), (b) By email (hrd@asianetglobal.com) or (c) By post.

When queried if the hiring could be linked to any kind of expansion the channel is planning, an Asianet official answered in the negative and played it down as routine hiring. Asianet, the market leader in Malayalam, also runs a news channel Asianet News.