Posts Tagged ‘job opportunities’

Job Opportunities: 100+ Places to Find Jobs

April 15th, 2010

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Despite the current recession, there are plenty of companies in a variety of fields looking for qualified employees. Sean P. Aune has collected over 100 sites for job listings, resume reviews, networking and more.

Whether you’re in the tech world, a teacher, translator; in the United States or abroad, these sites will help you launch a modern day job hunt.

Blogging & Writing Jobs

AboutFreelanceWriting.com – Offers helpful tips about being a freelance writer as well as posts summaries of the latest writing jobs.

BloggerJobs.biz – Has both open jobs from established sites and the ability for people to post “For Hire” listings.

FreelanceWritingGigs.com – Mixes listings for freelance jobs for both the Web and print with tips on improving your writing. » Read more: Job Opportunities: 100+ Places to Find Jobs

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Job Opportunities: Many Ways to Break into Paid Freelance Writing

April 4th, 2010

By Carol Tice

Carol TiceIf you’re looking to break into freelance writing today, there are many more options open to you than just a decade or so ago. One new type of paid writing in recent years is content sites—Associated Content, Brighthub, Demand Studios, Seed and others.

You’ll see these sites advertising for writers constantly, and new ones pop up all the time. It’s easy to sign up and start writing articles for them…but most pay $20 an article or less, or only pay a royalty based on pageviews or ad “clicks”…assuming they stay in business. That’s why many writers refer to them as “content mills.” At best, they’re usually a place for a brand-new writer to experiment a little and hone their craft. Soon, most writers want to move on to better-paying markets.

The thing to remember is content sites are not taking over the world of freelance writing – they’re just one new type of market. Despite what you may have heard, freelance rates have not collapsed, and savvy writers are still earning well.

Up until 10 years or so ago, most writers who started their freelance career did it without ever writing for a content mill. Content sites didn’t exist yet. How did we manage it? » Read more: Job Opportunities: Many Ways to Break into Paid Freelance Writing

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Job Opportunities: To Work or Not to Work, That is the Question

March 31st, 2010

By Jackie Simmonds, NEJS Blog Editor

Jackie SimmondsFor people who are used to working the idea of getting a job to supplement their unemployment benefits is attractive.  It seems like the right thing to do; people want to take care of themselves instead of relying on others to carry them through until they are employed once again.  And the longer you are out the more likely it is that you will need to find supplemental income as savings, home loans, and 401K resources dwindle down to nothing.

So getting a part time job sounds like the responsible thing to do, right? Not so fast!

Ron Scherer reports that many people who have been out of work for a year are picking up work part-timer work or temping, unaware that state agencies will recalculate their unemployment benefits after a year – and use their most recent work history and pay level to do it.

“What is going on for these workers is that because their most recent wages are much lower than the wages they earned in their prior full-time job, they are facing substantial cuts in their weekly unemployment benefits,” says George Wentworth, a consultant at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York.

Most of the people caught in this snag are on Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), a federal program to help those who have exhausted their state benefits. » Read more: Job Opportunities: To Work or Not to Work, That is the Question

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