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Since becoming the Detroit Free Press' recruiter in 1990, my work and the journalism industry have changed in unexpected ways. The transformation is rapid. One benefit is that I now learn from and help other Gannett recruiters. NewsRecruiter.com is a hub site that helps keep everything organized. It tells you what I am up to, it links to my latest work and it is a test site for new projects. My best ideas have always come from you, so please write. >more bio >resume  • Tuesdays: News Job Café • Wednesdays: J-Schools • Thursdays: Job Hacks • Fridays: Apply With Care |
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November 28, 2008 2:30 PM A friend who coordinated interns for an alternative weekly lists on Facebook this cover-letter excerpt as one of he favorite quotes: "as an inspiring journalist, i would love to be able to work, learn, and corporate with metro times." Read comment(s) or leave a comment Apply to the Newark Star-Ledger November 27, 2008 10:01 AM As you may know, the Star-Ledger is shedding about 40 percent of its newsroom staff. Recent reports have said that the newspaper, one of the nation's largest, lost almost its entire editorial board in one day and all but two reporters in its business news department. We even read last week that two journalists who did not apply for buyouts have been reassigned to the mailroom. So the Star-Ledger won't be needing anyone soon, right? Wrong. At least one Star-Ledger editor is quietly making calls, getting ready for some January hiring. Many of the people who are being bought out are still there. Several veterans are looking forward to goin out together on their last day of work: Dec. 31. It would seem inapporpriate to recruit in the open while people are still leaving, but expect some hiring soon after the buyout has been completed. This has happened before. Time and again going back to Newsday's big haircut in the mid-nineties and "publisher's clearinghouses" at the Washington Post, newspapers have followed massive staff reductions with hiring, Here's why: The departures do not all come in the right places and the newspapers sometimes lose people in placs where they simply cannot "go dark." Also, in addition to the number of people who sign up for the buyoutsthat take the newspaper to its new staffing level, additional people will simply leave, taking staffing below that new level. Once again, the counterintuitive move of applying during a buyout seems to hold possibilities. Expect the newspaper to focus on inexperienced, less expensive people. Read comment(s) or leave a comment Jobs Down, Interest in them Up November 16, 2008 9:38 AM If you take a look at the trend line for how often the word Jobs shows up in Google searches over the past several years, you'll see a pattern. Interest seems to taper off in the last three months of the year, hitting its lowest point around the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas -- and then climbing sharply as people being working on those New Year's resolutions to get into new jobs. It's no wonder people suspend their job searches around the holidays. They're busy, employers are busy and budget years are ending. But, with the new year, hope for new budgets and a renewed sense of urgency, we start looking again. That all makes sense. That's not happening this year. The trend has not fallen off for 2008, as it did in past years. But that doesn't necessarily mean people are looking for new jobs, either. Two of the top stories for hits in this last quarter of the year have been an Associated Press story about employers cutting jobs harder than they have in the past five years and another AP story that the Pittsburg Post-Gazette headlined "Vanishing jobs, stressed consumers feed downturn." If there is a lesson in any of this, it is that people are concerned about the job market -- and that they will probably have a lot of competition when we hit the first of the new year. Get that application ready. Read comment(s) or leave a comment |
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 Breaking In is the insider's guide to landing — and acing — your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty news recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed to the book. >Buy it
 Bringing the News Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys." If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.) >Buy it
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