Forgive me loves…
Forgive me loves…
…for the lack of a post yesterday. Work was hectic and I was busy because I had an interview!
I think it went fairly well. It was for an assistant editor position at a very small regional mag. I aced the edit test (HOORAY!) but I’m not sure I’ll get the job because it’s a very specific magazine about a certain animal that I know NOTHING about. Going in to it I figured I wouldn’t get it, but I thought I could definitely use the interview and edit test practice.
I’ve been doing this freelance thing for the past couple of days and I’m particularly fond of elance.com. I had to pay to use the service but I’ve already been accepted on two jobs, one random blog assignment and another for web content, and I made a couple hundred bucks! I don’t think that I’ll be able to use all the work I do through the site for clips, but I’ll definitely generate a few and I can seriously use the extra money. Someone’s break pads decided to blow out yesterday and now she has to spend $300 to get them fixed. *sigh*
I absolutely love all of your encouraging and helpful comments! One girl in particular said that this whole job search thing is basically a waiting game and I think I’m starting to agree with her. I’ve sent my resume to every single mag in the city, but the reality is that if there are no positions open, they’re probably not hiring. It’s been a couple of months since I last emailed and snail-mailed my clips, do you guys think I should give it another go? Do people normally check in or is it more likely that since an editor may not have been hiring at the time they got your resume, they just ignored it?
<3 Ed’s Girl On The Hunt
PS – Happy Halloween! :D
…for the lack of a post yesterday. Work was hectic and I was busy because I had an interview!
I think it went fairly well. It was for an assistant editor position at a very small regional mag. I aced the edit test (HOORAY!) but I’m not sure I’ll get the job because it’s a very specific magazine about a certain animal that I know NOTHING about. Going in to it I figured I wouldn’t get it, but I thought I could definitely use the interview and edit test practice.
I’ve been doing this freelance thing for the past couple of days and I’m particularly fond of elance.com. I had to pay to use the service but I’ve already been accepted on two jobs, one random blog assignment and another for web content, and I made a couple hundred bucks! I don’t think that I’ll be able to use all the work I do through the site for clips, but I’ll definitely generate a few and I can seriously use the extra money. Someone’s break pads decided to blow out yesterday and now she has to spend $300 to get them fixed. *sigh*
I absolutely love all of your encouraging and helpful comments! One girl in particular said that this whole job search thing is basically a waiting game and I think I’m starting to agree with her. I’ve sent my resume to every single mag in the city, but the reality is that if there are no positions open, they’re probably not hiring. It’s been a couple of months since I last emailed and snail-mailed my clips, do you guys think I should give it another go? Do people normally check in or is it more likely that since an editor may not have been hiring at the time they got your resume, they just ignored it?
<3 Ed’s Girl On The Hunt
PS – Happy Halloween! :D
posted by Ed intern at 4:53 PM
5 Comments:
Hey Ed’s Girl, I hope you get the assistant editor job and you won’t need this advice, but just in case: I think you might want to be a little less specific in your posts about the jobs you’re applying/interviewing for. It would be one thing if you were in a larger market like NYC, but as you’ve mentioned, Boston mag jobs aren’t as common…and therefore it’s easier to (potentially) identify the mags you’re describing. (I was able to figure out your real identity based on your first post, only b/c I used to work at that national family mag in western MA too.) Even if the people who are interviewing you aren’t reading this blog, their assistants and interns might be…and it would suck if you didn't get a job because an employer read this blog and sensed some ambivalence on your part.
I think this blog would still be really helpful to jobseekers even if you omitted small details...like, that you interviewed at a magazine about a certain *topic* you know nothing about (rather than a certain *animal* you know nothing about).
Good luck!
If I were you I would definitely resubmit your resume to old contacts you made months ago. By now you also probably have a few more things to add to your resume which could boost you as a candidate over others. I'm assuming you sent your resume over the summer and I have been told by many magazine contacts that after the holidays, positions tend to open up. So go for it! And good luck!!
Hi Ed's girl. I just jumped on and started reading your posts...I actually have some contacts in Boston and - since I am not in that area and already have a job - thought maybe you'd want to chat about who I know in what mags, etc. Let me know and we can figure a way to exchange emails.
Don't sweat not getting the job because you don't think you know enough about the subject matter. I work for a regional special interest mag in Chicago and new NOTHING about the subject matter when I started. Trust me, you'll learn it fast enough.
Thanks for all the fabulous advice!! I really do appreciate it! If anyone wants to reach me off the board, they can email me at edgirlonthehunt@gmail.com! This especially goes for the first anonymous posting (perhaps I worked with you?) and the third! Any help about the mags in town would be fabulous!
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