Guest post by Barry Magennis - With over three quarters of corporations now utilizing some aspect of social media, media jobs are as multitudinous as clouds in the sky. Indeed, you may have noticed that media positions are as commonplace as admin jobs as you browse jobs sites in search of your next career move. The mere sight of this ubiquitous term begets the question: what exactly counts as a media job these days?
After setting up your jobs site profile to receive alerts when ‘media jobs’ become available, you may find that you’re inundated with related roles. A good number of them will be sales-oriented.
Muddied as the waters may be in the media jobs market, there are many creative jobs, writing, editing or working even in television which are available; you just need to wade through the voluminous number of jobs to find them. But if you’re planning on throwing as many resumes at the wall and seeing what sticks, you’re likely to apply for a raft of jobs including social media vacancies.
Power is back. It was gone for 1 day. Irene wasn’t bad, at least not as bad as CNN wanted you to think.
Electricity went bye-bye yesterday at 9:30pm. It started raining and getting a bit windy. By 11:30pm the creek by our place grew from its usual 4ft to 30ft. At 12:30am there was a slight breeze and not even a drop of water pouring down.
I woke up this morning to witness the aftermath: a slightly eroded creek and a few branches on the ground. Irene was gone. I checked the news on my phone (God bless smartphones) and Irene was already dumping her load on NYC. Parts of the media were already questioning if they had gotten too far (mea culpa anyone?).
Gradkin, a startup from Singapore, is aiming to fill the gap between behemoths like LinkedIn and Monster, providing a more personal and community based experience by bringing together Gen-Y job seekers and employers. Here’s the interview with Grakin’s founder.
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