How to Apply to ITV

13 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 1 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • ITV plc is the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, a FTSE 250-listed group of roughly 6,000 employees and around GBP 3.5 billion in revenue, structured around ITV Studios (production) and Media & Entertainment (channels and ITVX).
  • Apply through careers.itv.com; itvjobs.com redirects there. Applications are processed through Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM (CandidateExperience CX_1) — an enterprise ATS that parses your CV and stores a reusable profile.
  • Honest context: linear commercial TV is in structural decline, ITVX is the pivot, and ITV ran significant redundancies in 2024. Hiring is selective and weighted toward digital, product, engineering, data, and priority production.
  • Interviews are warm, direct, and rigorous. Two to three rounds, competency-based with values framing, plus a craft or scenario component for production, technology, commercial, and design roles.
  • Demonstrate that you understand the specific business. Reference ITVX growth, the Mr Bates impact, the BritBox sale to the BBC, the AI-in-newsrooms guidelines, and Carolyn McCall's strategy in language that proves you have read more than the careers homepage.
  • Use a UK-style CV (two pages, no photo, parser-friendly PDF), mirror the job posting's language, quantify outcomes, and complete every structured field in the Oracle HCM application.
  • Early-career routes (ITV Academy, traineeships, runner programmes) are extraordinarily competitive but remain the cleanest path into long ITV careers — apply early, apply broadly, and accept that you may need multiple cycles.

About ITV

ITV plc is the United Kingdom's largest commercial broadcaster and one of Europe's largest content production businesses. Trading on the FTSE 250 under ticker ITV, the group employs roughly 6,000 people and reported revenue in the region of GBP 3.5 billion. The company is led by Chief Executive Carolyn McCall, who joined from easyJet in January 2018 and has spent the years since transforming a traditional linear broadcaster into a streaming-and-production hybrid. Founded in 1955 as the original commercial alternative to the BBC, ITV is now structured around two complementary divisions. ITV Studios is the global production powerhouse responsible for hits including Love Island, Britain's Got Talent, You've Been Framed, The Voice UK, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and the BAFTA-winning Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which became one of the most consequential pieces of British television in decades. Media & Entertainment houses the broadcast channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITVBe, CITV) and ITVX, the free advertising-funded streaming service launched in December 2022 that is now central to the group's future. BritBox, the international streaming joint venture, was sold to the BBC in late 2024 to refocus capital and attention on ITVX growth. ITV's UK-facing offices are concentrated in London, with the corporate headquarters at White City Place (201 Wood Lane, W12 7RU) bringing teams together since May 2022, alongside the iconic broadcast facility at Television House on the South Bank. Major regional hubs operate in Leeds (home to Emmerdale, ITV Archive, News, and Regions), Manchester (Coronation Street and the MediaCityUK studios), Cardiff, and Glasgow, with ITV Studios production bases extending across continental Europe, the United States, Australia, and beyond. Anyone considering a career at ITV must understand the structural context. Linear commercial television advertising in the UK is in measurable decline as audiences migrate to streaming and short-form video; ITVX is the bet that bridges that transition. The strategy is showing real progress, with ITVX subscribers and streaming hours growing meaningfully through 2024 and into 2025, but the journey is being funded in part through cost reductions. ITV announced significant redundancies during 2024, particularly in Daytime and central functions, as the company restructured for a digital-first future. Hiring continues, but it is selective, weighted toward digital, product, engineering, data, and high-priority production roles, and increasingly cautious about back-office expansion. Joining ITV in 2026 means joining a company with extraordinary cultural reach, a creative legacy second to none in British television, and a leadership team in the middle of one of the most ambitious pivots in UK media history. It also means joining a company where every team is expected to justify its impact in commercial and audience terms, where AI is being introduced into newsrooms and production workflows under newly published guidelines, and where the financial pressure on linear is real. Candidates who arrive understanding both the prestige and the pressure are the candidates who succeed.

Application Process

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    Step 1 — Discover the role at careers.itv.com. The careers site at careers.itv.com (and the legacy itvjobs.com domain, which redirects there) is the single source of truth for live ITV roles. Filter by team (Media & Entertainment, Corporate, Technology, ITV Studios, Early Careers, ITV Academy), location (London White City, Leeds, Manchester, regional, remote-first), and contract type (permanent, fixed-term contract, freelance, traineeship). Production crew roles are often filled through ITV Studios company-by-company and freelance networks, so check the relevant production company sub-brand if you are targeting a specific show.

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    Step 2 — Read the role description and the team page in full. Every job posting links back to a team or division page that explains how that group is structured and what it values. Recruiters at ITV consistently report that the strongest candidates reference specific shows, products, or recent strategic moves in their applications. Generic 'I love TV' cover letters do not survive first screening.

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    Step 3 — Create or sign in to your Oracle HCM candidate profile. The 'Apply Now' button hands you off to the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM CandidateExperience portal at fa-euup-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com. First-time applicants register with an email and password; returning applicants sign in to the same profile they used before. Save your login — you will reuse it for every future ITV application, and your previous applications are visible to internal recruiters.

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    Step 4 — Complete the application form thoroughly. Oracle HCM applications typically require personal details, right-to-work confirmation for the UK, an uploaded CV, sometimes a cover letter or short written response, and a series of equal-opportunities and diversity questions. The diversity questions are voluntary, anonymised, and used only for aggregate reporting — they do not affect your application. Fill in every field of the structured form; do not assume the recruiter will dig the information out of your CV.

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    Step 5 — Submit and confirm. After submission you receive an automated confirmation email from the Oracle HCM system. Add the @itv.com domain and the Oracle HCM no-reply address to your safe senders list — many 'I never heard back' stories trace to spam-filter false positives.

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    Step 6 — Initial screening (5 to 10 working days for most roles). A recruiter from the ITV Talent team reviews applications against the hiring manager's criteria. Strong CVs are surfaced for a screening call, usually a 20 to 30 minute phone or video conversation covering motivation, salary expectations, notice period, right to work, and a high-level walkthrough of relevant experience.

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    Step 7 — First-round interview. Typically a competency-based or values-based interview with the hiring manager and one team member, conducted via video for most roles. Expect questions framed around ITV's behaviours and the specific role's competencies. For technology, product, and data roles a technical or scenario component is added — system design, code review, SQL, or a take-home brief depending on the discipline.

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    Step 8 — Final-round interview, panel, or task. Two-stage processes are the norm for permanent roles; senior or specialist roles can run to three rounds. Production roles often involve a creative task or portfolio walkthrough; commercial and ad-sales roles include a pitch or scenario; engineering roles include a system-design or pair-programming session. Final rounds are increasingly held in person at White City for shortlisted candidates.

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    Step 9 — Offer, references, and onboarding. Verbal offers come from the recruiter, followed by a written contract. Reference checks (two professional referees, sometimes more for senior roles) and right-to-work documentation are completed before a start date is confirmed. Notice periods at ITV typically run from one month for junior roles to three or six months for senior leadership.

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    Step 10 — If you are not successful. Feedback is offered after final-round interviews; first-round rejections are usually delivered with brief generic feedback. ITV's recruiters explicitly encourage strong candidates who narrowly miss out to reapply — building a relationship with a specific recruiter or team is one of the most reliable routes into the company over a 12 to 24 month horizon.

Resume Tips for ITV

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Use 'CV' in your filename, not 'resume'

Use 'CV' in your filename, not 'resume'. ITV is a UK employer applying UK conventions. Two pages is the expected length for most roles; three pages is acceptable for senior or production-heavy careers with extensive credit lists.

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Lead with a short professional summary tailored to the specific ITV role

Lead with a short professional summary tailored to the specific ITV role. Three or four lines naming your discipline, the years and depth of relevant experience, and one concrete outcome you would bring to the team.

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Quantify everything you can

Quantify everything you can. 'Grew streaming watch time by 22 percent year-on-year' beats 'managed streaming product'. 'Delivered a 60-episode series on time and 5 percent under budget' beats 'production manager on a daytime show'. Numbers travel through Oracle HCM screening; adjectives do not.

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For production and editorial roles, list credits in a clear, scannable format: s

For production and editorial roles, list credits in a clear, scannable format: show title, role, production company, broadcaster, year. Distinguish between scripted, unscripted, factual, and live where relevant. If you have worked on shows in the ITV portfolio (Love Island, Britain's Got Talent, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, This Morning, Loose Women, Good Morning Britain, ITV News) say so plainly.

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For technology, product, and data roles, name the stack

For technology, product, and data roles, name the stack. ITV's product and engineering teams work across cloud (predominantly AWS), Python, Node, React, mobile (iOS and Android for ITVX), data warehousing (Snowflake and BigQuery have both been referenced), and modern MLOps tooling. Match the language in the posting and back claims with project context.

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Mirror the language of the job posting

Mirror the language of the job posting. Oracle HCM's recruiter search and shortlisting tools index your CV by keyword. If the posting calls for a 'Senior Product Manager — ITVX Discovery' and your CV calls you a 'Lead PM in streaming personalisation', add the literal phrase from the posting somewhere appropriate.

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Keep formatting clean and parser-friendly

Keep formatting clean and parser-friendly. Single-column layout, standard fonts (Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, or a similar sans-serif at 10 to 11 point), no headshots, no graphical skill bars, no text inside images, no headers or footers with critical information. Save and upload as PDF unless the posting specifies otherwise.

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Address gaps and freelance patterns honestly

Address gaps and freelance patterns honestly. The UK media industry runs on freelancers; gaps between contracts are not red flags if you account for them. A short line such as 'Freelance editor, various productions, Jan to Sep 2024' or 'Career break — caring responsibilities, 2023' is far better than an unexplained year.

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Include a personal portfolio, showreel, or GitHub link where relevant

Include a personal portfolio, showreel, or GitHub link where relevant. For editorial, design, video, journalism, and engineering roles a working link is often the deciding factor. Make sure the link works, the content is current, and the password (if any) is included in the application.

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Demonstrate awareness of ITV's strategic moment

Demonstrate awareness of ITV's strategic moment. Even a single line in the cover letter or summary that references ITVX, the Mr Bates impact, the BritBox sale, or the shift to digital-first signals that you have done your homework and understand the business you are applying to join.

ATS System: Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM (CandidateExperience)

ITV processes all applications through Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, the same enterprise applicant tracking system used by many large UK and European employers. The candidate-facing portal lives at fa-euup-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com under the CandidateExperience site CX_1, hosted in Oracle's EU UK region. The careers marketing site at careers.itv.com (which the legacy itvjobs.com domain redirects to) is a separate custom front-end that surfaces live requisitions and hands candidates off to Oracle HCM at the point of application. Oracle HCM parses your uploaded CV into structured fields, indexes the content for recruiter keyword search, stores your profile against your email address, and surfaces your full application history to internal hiring managers when you apply for additional roles. It supports talent pools and recruiter follow-up, so a strong but unsuccessful application can lead to outreach for a later requisition.

  • Register with a permanent personal email address you intend to keep for years. Your Oracle HCM profile is keyed to that email and you will reuse it for every future ITV application.
  • Upload your CV as a text-based PDF, not a scanned image, photograph, or Word document with embedded images. Oracle HCM's parser extracts text reliably from clean PDFs and unreliably from anything else.
  • Complete every structured field even after uploading the CV. Recruiters frequently filter on structured fields (location, right-to-work status, notice period, salary expectation) before they read CVs in detail. Empty fields drop you out of those filters silently.
  • Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications) so the parser maps your content to the correct Oracle HCM fields. Creative or unconventional headings often end up dumped into a generic 'Other' bucket.
  • Save and submit before any session timeout. Oracle HCM sessions can expire on long forms; draft long-form answers in a separate document and paste them in.
  • Set up job alerts inside the Oracle HCM portal for the teams and locations you care about. ITV posts roles continuously rather than in seasonal waves, and an alert means you see a relevant role within hours of it going live.

Interview Culture

ITV interviews are warmer than the average FTSE 250 process and more rigorous than the average creative-industry chat.

Recruiters and hiring managers describe the culture as collaborative, opinionated, and proudly British in its directness. Expect interviewers to be friendly and curious about you as a person, while also pressing hard on whether you can actually do the job. The structure for most permanent roles is a recruiter screen followed by a first-round competency interview with the hiring manager and a peer, then a second round combining a panel conversation with a task, exercise, or portfolio review. Senior and specialist roles can extend to a third round with cross-functional stakeholders or a director. Competency questions are framed against ITV's behaviours and values — be ready with concrete STAR-format stories (Situation, Task, Action, Result) covering collaboration, navigating ambiguity, commercial impact, audience focus, inclusion, and how you have responded to change. For production and editorial roles, expect detailed conversation about specific shows you have worked on, creative judgement under pressure, talent and contributor management, and how you balance editorial ambition with budget reality. Bring a portfolio or showreel and be ready to walk through individual decisions: why this cut, why this guest, why this format choice. For commercial and ad-sales roles, expect a pitch or scenario component and detailed questioning on how you would approach an agency relationship, an upfront, or a specific advertiser brief. ITV's ad sales business is one of the largest in the UK market and the bar for commercial fluency is correspondingly high. For digital, product, engineering, data, and design roles centred on ITVX, expect a technical or craft component (system design, code, prototype critique, dashboard walk-through), a product-thinking discussion, and behavioural questions. Engineering interviewers tend to favour pragmatic problem-solving over algorithm trivia; product interviewers care about how you reason about audience metrics, watch time, conversion, and cohort behaviour. For corporate roles (finance, legal, HR, communications, strategy) the format is closer to a traditional FTSE 250 process with greater emphasis on stakeholder management, regulatory awareness, and the ability to operate inside a listed company. ITV runners and entry-level production roles are an exception worth flagging on their own. Competition is fierce, salaries are entry-level, and many of the most prestigious schemes (the ITV News Trainee Scheme, ITV Production Trainees, ITV Academy programmes) attract hundreds of applications for single-figure places. Interview processes for these schemes are correspondingly thorough — written tests, group exercises, presentation tasks, and final-round panels are all common. Across every level, two pieces of advice repeat across recruiter feedback. First, be specific about ITV. Vague enthusiasm for 'British TV' or 'media' will not land; demonstrate that you understand the difference between ITV1 and ITVX, between a Studios production and a commissioned piece, between linear and on-demand monetisation. Second, ask thoughtful questions. ITV interviewers consistently report that the candidates who ask sharp questions about the business — the ITVX growth strategy, the role of AI in newsrooms, how the team measures success, what the redundancy round changed for the team day-to-day — are the candidates who get hired.

What ITV Looks For

  • Genuine interest in ITV's specific shows, products, and strategic position. The strongest candidates can name the productions, the channels, the ITVX features, and the recent commercial moves that matter to the role they are applying for.
  • Commercial and audience literacy. ITV is a listed commercial broadcaster funded by advertising and increasingly by streaming engagement. Every role is ultimately accountable to one or both of those. Candidates who can speak comfortably about ratings, watch time, ad revenue, conversion, and cost-to-impact land better than candidates who treat television purely as art.
  • Craft. For production, editorial, design, engineering, and data roles, ITV hires for demonstrable craft excellence first. A working showreel, portfolio, GitHub, design system, or published body of work is worth more than any competency answer.
  • Resilience and adaptability. ITV is restructuring, redundancies happened in 2024, linear is in decline, and ITVX is being built in real time. The company hires people who can hold steady through change and contribute to it rather than complain about it.
  • Inclusion and diversity in practice. ITV is publicly committed to representation in front of and behind the camera and asks interview questions designed to surface how candidates have actually contributed to inclusive teams. Generalities will be probed; specific examples will be rewarded.
  • Ethical judgement. With the BAFTA-winning Mr Bates vs The Post Office reshaping the public conversation about institutional accountability, and with newly published ITV guidelines on responsible use of AI in newsrooms and production, the company is acutely aware of its public-interest role. Candidates who can talk about ethical and editorial judgement under pressure stand out.
  • Collaboration across disciplines. ITV's pivot to ITVX requires production, editorial, product, engineering, marketing, ad sales, and data teams to work together at speed. Candidates who can demonstrate cross-functional collaboration land better than pure individual contributors.
  • A long-term view of UK media. The candidates who thrive at ITV are not the ones who join because no other option appeared; they are the ones who actively chose UK commercial broadcasting as the place they want to do the next chapter of their career.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ATS does ITV use for applications?
ITV uses Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, specifically the CandidateExperience portal hosted at fa-euup-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com under site CX_1. The careers marketing site at careers.itv.com (and the legacy itvjobs.com domain that redirects there) lists live roles and hands you off to Oracle HCM at the point of application. Your candidate profile, including all past applications, lives in Oracle HCM and is reused for every future ITV role.
Where is ITV's headquarters?
ITV's corporate headquarters moved in May 2022 to White City Place at 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7RU, bringing previously distributed London teams into a single building next to the BBC Television Centre site. The historic broadcast facility at Television House on the South Bank remains operational, and major regional offices run in Leeds (home to Emmerdale, the ITV Archive, News, and Regions), Manchester (Coronation Street and MediaCityUK production), Cardiff, and Glasgow.
How long does ITV's hiring process take?
For most permanent roles the end-to-end process runs four to eight weeks from application to offer. Initial recruiter screening typically happens within five to ten working days; first-round interviews follow within one to two weeks; final rounds and offers usually conclude within another two to three weeks. Senior leadership, specialist technology, and high-volume early-career schemes can run longer. Freelance and short-term production roles often move much faster, sometimes within days.
Does ITV hire remotely or do you have to be in London?
ITV operates a hybrid model with anchor offices in London (White City), Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, and Glasgow. Many corporate, technology, and ITVX product roles are based out of White City but with hybrid in-office expectations rather than five days a week. Production and on-the-ground broadcast roles are tied to specific locations — Coronation Street is Manchester, Emmerdale and ITV News regional desks are Leeds, scripted and unscripted productions move with the show. Fully remote permanent roles are rare; check each posting carefully because the listed location is genuinely where the role expects you to be.
Has ITV been making redundancies, and is it safe to apply?
Yes, ITV announced significant redundancies during 2024, particularly in Daytime and central functions, as part of the restructure toward digital-first operations. Hiring did not stop — the company continues to recruit, especially for ITVX, technology, product, engineering, data, and priority production roles — but it is more selective. Applying remains entirely sensible if your skills match the strategic direction. The honest answer for prospective candidates is to look at the team and discipline you are joining, ask in interview about recent restructuring in that area, and weigh the answer alongside the opportunity.
What's the best way into ITV if I'm starting my career?
ITV runs structured early-career routes through the ITV Academy, the ITV News Trainee Scheme, ITV Production Trainees, runner programmes, and team-specific apprenticeships and graduate roles. These schemes are extraordinarily competitive — single-figure places against hundreds or sometimes thousands of applications — so apply early, apply to multiple schemes, and treat each application as a serious project rather than a quick form-fill. Outside the formal schemes, freelance runner work on individual ITV Studios productions is the traditional route into UK television and remains a viable path into a permanent role over time.
How important are ITVX and streaming experience in 2026?
Very important for digital, product, engineering, design, marketing, and data roles, and increasingly important for editorial and commercial roles too. ITVX is the strategic centre of gravity for the company, and candidates who can speak fluently about streaming product (personalisation, recommendation, retention, FAST channels, AVOD economics, watch-time metrics) have a meaningful advantage. For production roles the priority is craft on a relevant format; for editorial and commercial roles, awareness of how content and ad sales play out across linear and on-demand together is now expected.
What does ITV pay?
ITV pays competitively for the UK media sector, broadly in line with other large UK broadcasters and entertainment groups. Specific bands depend heavily on role, level, location, and division — technology and product roles in London are benchmarked against the wider UK tech market; production roles follow industry norms and union agreements where applicable; runner and trainee roles are entry-level. ITV publishes a public gender pay gap report annually and is a Disability Confident employer. Salary is discussed openly in the recruiter screening call; come prepared with a researched expectation rather than a guess.
How does ITV use AI, and how does that affect candidates?
ITV has published responsible-use guidelines covering generative AI in newsrooms and production, in line with the broader UK broadcaster conversation about editorial integrity, source verification, and synthetic media. For candidates, this matters in two ways. First, in interview you may be asked how you think about AI in your specific discipline, particularly for editorial, production, design, and engineering roles. Second, AI literacy is an emerging hiring criterion across many ITV teams — being able to discuss tools you have used, their limits, and the editorial or technical judgement you applied is a clear differentiator.
Should I mention competitor employers (BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix UK) in my application?
Yes, where it is relevant. ITV is realistic about the UK media ecosystem, and the major British broadcasters and streaming platforms hire from each other constantly. Naming previous employers including BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Netflix, Amazon MGM, Banijay, All3Media, Fremantle, and ITN is expected and helpful. What does not land is presenting ITV as a fallback or a stepping stone — interviewers can tell, and it is the single most consistent reason cited by recruiters for declining otherwise strong candidates.

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  1. ITV Careers — official careers site (homepage and Jobs portal) —
  2. ITV Careers — Locations (White City, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow) —
  3. ITV Careers — Oracle HCM CandidateExperience sign-in (CX_1, EU UK region) —
  4. ITV plc — corporate site, leadership, and FTSE 250 listing —
  5. ITV Careers — How we hire and Recruitment FAQs —
  6. ITV Careers — Teams (Media & Entertainment, Corporate, Technology, ITV Studios, Early Careers, ITV Academy) —
  7. itvjobs.com — legacy careers domain (HTTP 301 redirect to careers.itv.com confirmed via headers) —