Show off your credentials - for free - when searching for a job
Investigative Reporters and Editors introduces a free Job Seekers board where IRE members can anonymously - or by name, if you choise - post their qualifications, describe the job they want and invite employers to contact them. IRE and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting host an active Web site for some of the best-trained and highest-profile journalists in the world. You can't afford to miss our 5,000 members or thousands of other Web-browsing journalists when trying to find a job.
Please note that this service is available ONLY to members of IRE
Features:
- You choose whether potential employers see your personal email address and/or name, or whether you prefer a blind e-mail address that will automatically forward to you responses from potential employers, without revealing your identity.
- A listing on our quick-look grid.
- A link to a page of your own, where your listing can continue in detail (150-word maximum).
- Listing within 24 hours for e-mailed postings.
- A ten-week Web life.
- Free for IRE members
What to send us
- Your advertisement - see below for some advice
- Your e-mail address - won't disclosed in the ad.
- Your IRE Member number - won't be disclosed in the ad.
- Your name - won't be disclosed in the ad.
What your ad should include:
- Please specify whether you prefer a blind e-mail address or would like the ad to include your personal e-mail address.
- Optional: you can request that your name and contact information appear in the ad, too.
- How many years of experience you have
- What kind of job you want - reporter, editor, researcher, producer, etc.
- What medium you want to work in - TV, radio, magazine, newspaper, online, wires, academia, trade publications
- Your special skills - what beats you've worked, what your strengths are
- What size market you want to work in
- Your educational background
- Whether you are looking for full-time, part-time or free-lance work
- Your salary requirements
A sample ad:
- REPORTING/EDITING
- Reporter with 10 years experience seeks a full-time reporting or editing job at medium-sized newspaper in the Southeast.
- Experience includes:
- Two years in sports covering high schools.
- Two years covering police and other public safety matters.
- Five years covering local and federal courts at two different papers.
- One year as an assistant business editor with some writing duties.
- Have won an IRE Medal for investigative reporting and other awards for beat coverage.
- Looking for a full-time challenge at a paper that values reporting, writing and storytelling.
- Would consider part-time work to start.
- For resume and more information, contact me at job12345@ire.org.
For more information call IRE at 573-884-2360 or e-mail your announcement to: .
