I followed up my speech for the California Writers\u2019 Club members in Sacramento last week by sending an article to be published in their newsletter or at their website. Since I spoke on freelance writing, I decided to continue with that theme. I thought you might be interested in my checklist for job hunters:<\/p>\n
General Advice<\/strong> \u2022\tBecome familiar with job search sites for writers. These include, I often include new job boards and directories for writers in issues of the SPAWN Market Update. Join SPAWN at http:\/\/www.spawn.org<\/a> <\/p>\n \u2022\tNetwork constantly. Attend writers\/publishers\u2019 events and ask people how they got their jobs\/assignments. Participate in interactive web sites for writers. Find local organizations through your library, bookstores and in the calendar section of the newspaper. Locate online sites using your favorite search engine. Type in \u201cwriters groups\u201d or \u201cwriters,\u201d for example.<\/p>\n \u2022\tVolunteer your writing services. A little volunteer work might land you the job you seek. Offer to write the church bulletin, a company newsletter or a press release for a charity organization, for example. Not only are you gaining experience and adding to your portfolio, but you\u2019re showing off your talent and skills to all of the right people.<\/p>\n \u2022\tRead the classified employment ads every week and apply for every job that has \u201cwriting\u201d in it. Post your resume on some of the major Internet recruiting sites such as monster.com. And search their databases for job opportunities.<\/p>\n \u2022\tCreate a portfolio and keep adding to it. Make copies of your published articles, brochures, etc. to show prospective employers\/clients. <\/p>\n \u2022\tBuild a website and post your portfolio and resume there.<\/p>\n \u2022\tKeep writing. Write every chance you get. Practice, practice, practice.<\/p>\n \u2022\tBe open to all types of writing. You may have your heart set on becoming rich and famous writing your own novel or landing a job as the editor-in-chief for Reader\u2019s Digest. In the meantime, however, accept the work that comes your way. Do some PR work for your neighbor, ghost write a book for a client, revise some technical manuals. Get paid and learn new skills.<\/p>\n Tomorrow I\u2019ll continue by adding how to get a writing job in the corporate world or a newspaper and how to create your own writing job.<\/p>\n In the meantime, if you want to write articles for magazines, order my book, A Writer\u2019s Guide to Magazine Articles<\/em>. If you are thinking about writing a book, you\u2019ve written a book for publication and\/or you want to know more about how to promote your book by submitting articles and short stories to publications and the web, order my book, Publish Your Book, Proven Strategies and Resources for the Enterprising Author.<\/em> Both are available at my website: http:\/\/www.matilijapres.com<\/a>, at Amazon.com and other online and downtown bookstores.<\/p>\n And if you don\u2019t think an author must be enterprising, that he or she does not need key resources and that he or she need not use or concern themselves with strategies, you are sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I followed up my speech for the California Writers\u2019 Club members in Sacramento last week by sending an article to be published in their newsletter or at their website. Since I spoke on freelance writing, I decided to continue with that theme. I thought you might be interested in my checklist for job hunters: General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,16,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n\u2022\tSubscribe to online writing-oriented newsletters and join online writing organizations that offer job listings for writers. Many of them also keep you current on publishing trends. Here are a few resources to get you started:
\nSPAWN http:\/\/www.spawn.org<\/a>
\nWriter\u2019s Weekly Newsletter<\/em> and website http:\/\/www.writersweekly.com<\/a>
\nFreelance Writer\u2019s Report<\/em> http:\/\/www.writers-editors.com<\/a>
\nWriting-World<\/em> http:\/\/www.writingworld.com<\/a>
\nWorking Writer<\/em> http:\/\/www.workingwriter1.com<\/a> <\/p>\n
\n http:\/\/www.sunoasis.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.writejobs.com<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.mockingbird.creighton.edu\/ncw\/jobs.htm<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.tjobs.com\/new\/writers.shtml<\/a>
\n\t http:\/\/www.freelancewritinggigs.com<\/a> <\/p>\n