{"id":2019,"date":"2008-11-19T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2008-11-19T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T22:03:55","slug":"job-hunting-for-young-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/11\/job-hunting-for-young-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Job-hunting for young journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Job<\/p>\n

A<\/span>dvice doesn’t come any better than this – from the excellent Editorialiste<\/a><\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  • Send in applications everywhere<\/strong> you think you’ve got a shot — then prove it to each company in your application. It’s worth the time to tailor your application, even if you never hear back.<\/li>\n
  • When you’ve sent out all that you can, send more.<\/strong> I can’t stress this enough. The job search becomes exhausting, but you must persist.<\/li>\n

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  • Contact friends and mentors and coworkers not for jobs, but for advice.<\/strong> Very few actually can and have jobs to offer you, but everyone has a wealth of experience on how they got where they are today.<\/li>\n
  • Tell everyone that you’re looking.<\/strong> I had several friends, not all of them close, regularly send me jobs they came across. Some I had seen, some I hadn’t, but those morning e-mails were a great pick-me-up when things felt grim.<\/li>\n
  • Take a break.<\/strong> The job search is nerve-wracking because it feels as though fate is closing in on you as your funds for living run out. Don’t go a day without sending an application somewhere, but don’t go a day without smiling. The whole job search is an internalized affair, like a tea kettle nearing boil. So make sure you get out of the house and see friends. Or go to the gym. Mental health is important at this time.<\/li>\n
  • Take people’s advice with a grain of salt, but listen.<\/strong> As a journalist, this goes without saying. I received a ton of contradictory comments in the two posts I wrote, but what I gained most from the whole affair is that people are listening (I even received a freelance offer). Use that momentum as inspiration to keep applying places.<\/li>\n
  • Keep your online presence up-to-date.<\/strong> I received lots of comment when I changed my LinkedIn status message to “Looking for a job.”<\/li>\n
  • If you get rejected, politely ask why.<\/strong> I was rejected for a position that I thought I had a particularly good shot at; turns out that with so many job layoffs, the publication was overwhelmed with overqualified applicants. So I replied and asked what I could have done better as an applicant. The editor was kind enough to answer in specifics why I didn’t make the cut, and encouraged me that I was a solid applicant who was just blown away by the circumstances. She also offered to take my pitches for stories, which would have been important had I not taken my current position. Remember — editors know what it’s like, and more often than not, they’ll relate!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    And finally, when it comes to the actual job: negotiate that salary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Once you’re settled in, don’t forget to repay the favor<\/strong> to your friends by helping them find jobs or listings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Advice doesn’t come any better than this – from the excellent Editorialiste: Send in applications everywhere you think you’ve got a shot — then prove it to each company in your application. It’s worth the time to tailor your application, even if you never hear back. When you’ve sent out all that you can, send […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1964,2408,1550,1473],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-job-search","tag-journalism","tag-online-presence","tag-reorganization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}