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Newsrooms may be cutting staff, but online jobs seem to be everywhere

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A few days ago my superior/colleague (though not for long) Danny Sanchez posted about some open job positions in the journalism world. With all of the talk about newsroom cutbacks and staff layoffs it is refreshing, and I imagine comforting to those just coming out of j-school, to see that there are in fact still jobs out there for the talented, intrepid and somewhat lucky job seekers.

So, I figured I’d follow his lead and post a list of jobs that are squarely focused in the online world. The market seems to be more welcoming right now to the Web journalists and I think it would behoove people to know what is out there.

Oh, a note to the non-believers and/or purists out there. Not all journalism jobs need be for newspapers (Slate, ProPublica, Yahoo!, etc.)

See, there are plenty of jobs out there and this isn’t even all of them. Keep on looking people and never stop polishing those skills.

Other suggestions:

  • Go to recruiting conventions or journalism job fairs. Don’t bother with the non-industry specific job fair cattle calls, they’re probably a waste of time.
  • Tighten up that resume and hone those interviewing skills (job interviewing skills, not the journalism ones). Let your resume give the person hiring just enough so that they want to sit down and talk with you.
  • When applying, write a cover letter catered to that specific job and/or organization. Nothing says lazy like a form cover letter.
  • Seminars are a great place to meet people and get your face and work known. You never know when you might be sitting down in front of them and interviewing.
  • Network, network, network!

Good night, and good luck.

New job search website perfect for journalists, indeed

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Being on the verge of graduation I’ve been on the job hunt the last few weeks. One problem that always crops up during an immense job hunt is having to case several different Web sites, job boards and association groups sniffing for jobs.

The problem with any job search, regardless of what your specialty is, is have to go to so many sites and often seeing duplicate jobs on many of them. Already I have about a dozen job sites bookmarked, job feeds in my RSS reader from journalism-related job boards and I have profiles at a half-dozen sites that email me when a job matching my description pops up. All of that has been made a little simpler thank to a new job search engine.

Enter Indeed.com. Indeed is a job search engine that culls job postings from nearly every popular board, in thousands of industries and puts them all in one place. I browsed it for about a half hour and it is amazing. Even though it is not journalism specific, it seems to work well for those types of jobs.

It let’s you enter a job title or key words and a location, if you wish. When the results pop up they can be further filtered by job title, salary, company, location or several other criteria. The returned results only take you to the specific board, so if they need you to create an account (HotJobs, Monster, JournalismJobs.com) and upload a resume then you still need to do that. Still, it’s an incredible time-saver and let’s you search hundreds of jobs in your industry in minutes.

Rating: Highly Recommended.

Good luck out there.