Social media has long been a club of interest. Here people choose real estate, watch movies, and, of course, look for work. In the communities of professionals posted offers of cooperation, and users of social networks have the opportunity to place their resumes in thematic groups. How productive is such a search? Does the social network job market match the city job market? And how do you find a job for a writer through social media?
A deep market
The social network is the territory of communication. It’s also the territory of the evening. In fact, every company has a presence on social networks. Accordingly, it is logical to assume that human resources personnel will look for employees at the expense of networks. Moreover, posting vacancies in their group is free for the employer. Publishers can post as often as they want about recruiting employees. But you have to pay to publish the same vacancies in employment newspapers or job search portals. Consequently, the social media labor market can sometimes be more saturated than the citywide market. This applies primarily to industries and companies that are able to recruit through the Web. Well, who, if not a literary person, today spends an overwhelming amount of his free time in the network? Hence the conclusion: you can find a “literary job” via social networks, and this search tool should be used by all means.
Variability
Users interested in finding a job through social networking have the opportunity to show their deductive abilities. First you need to figure out what companies have the sense to apply, and then proceed to bombarding them with messages (in the good sense of “bombardment”, because overdoing it with activity is not worth it – you get banned).
So, we will do:
- profile thematic open groups for writers with a “vacancies” section, although we have to admit that decent offers rarely appear here, more often resumes are posted;
- groups of unions and writers’ houses, although there are not many vacancies here, either,
- groups of book publishers;
- print media groups (newspapers and magazines);
- groups of agencies engaged in network marketing and seo-promotion;
- groups of any companies that have a presence on the network and need to create promotional texts.
- groups dedicated to major literary events: festivals, contests, marathons, etc.
More effective – go directly to the employer, rather than posting summaries in groups for the same, suffering, for the task of the enterprising writer bypass the authors, lamenting the fact that he can not find work, and not join their number.
Image Making
Any employer recruiting through the Web will tell you how important the information you post on your page is. From swimsuit photos to reposting bearded jokes. Many professionals didn’t get the coveted offer because of silly pictures and even sillier posts. What’s the secret here? There isn’t one. You judge a person by their social networking page, right? So does an employer. So if you’re looking for a “writing job” by sending out messages with a resume from your page, it’s worth bringing it into a digestible form, so to speak, to set it up for business.
That means no nude photos, in a bathing suit, with alcoholic beverages, girls-boys in the forefront. No odious pictures. No questionable messages, appeals, confessions. Yes, perhaps in terms of your friends, such a page will be more primitive, boring, serious, but the chances of finding a job will be higher.
As an aside: Put examples of your publicist work on your page-it’ll save the employer the time of getting samples of your texts that will allow them to get acquainted with your style.
And don’t forget to be proactive: the more entrepreneurial you are, the better your chances of finding a job.
