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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 chose - 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 - not to be disclosed in the ad.
- Your IRE Member number - not to be disclosed in the ad.
- Your name - not to 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
For more information call IRE at 573-884-2360 or e-mail your announcement to: jobwanted@ire.org.
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.