Posts Tagged ‘ media ’

Entry-level: Benjamin Brown

Founder and CEO Benjamin Brown

Entry-level is a new series profiling those who are working their first media jobs out of college. Want to be featured? Send an e-mail to d.ceceliamartinez gmail com with a photo and answers to the questions below. Name: Benjamin Brown (@RedLeader656) Location: Albany, NY Gig: Founder and CEO, New Hand Media Education: The College of Saint Rose, 2009 Length of job search: My job search lasted months. During school, I was working for Apple Inc. as a computer tech at one of their retail stores. It was a great job and I was paid well, but there was so much that I felt I was missing. So, making one of the most important decisions of my life, I decided to quit my job and relocate to Charlotte, NC. It was there that I got a taste of the real world and how bad the economy actually is. I spent...

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Entry-Level: Alex Tunney

Entry-Level: Alex Tunney

Entry-level is a new series profiling those who are working their first media jobs out of college. Want to be featured? Send an e-mail to d.ceceliamartinez gmail com with a photo and answers to the questions below. Name: Alex J. Tunney Gig: Associate Editor, Data Conversion Labs Education: The College of Saint Rose, December 2008 Length of job search: Roughly a year, not counting my time in retail. How he landed the job: A temp agency pulled my resume off of Monster. I’m a temp now, but it might lead to a permanent position. What kept him motivated throughout his search: Positive feedback. I realized “We’d probably hire you in a better economy,” isn’t the worst thing I could be hearing. Ultimate dream job: An editor of some kind (for a newspaper, magazine, or whatever) while being an essayist on the side. Advice for job seekers out...

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Five reasons ‘hire me’ Facebook ads need to die, now

Targeted 'hire me' ads miss the mark.

Two of my favorite blogs recently wrote about a  crop of young job seekers that are trying to landing their dream jobs by taking out targeted ‘hire me’ Facebook ads. First MediaJobsDaily covered the story, and then Joe Grimm at the Ask A Recruiter blog at Poynter did a pretty thorough write-up earlier this week about the trend, and whether or not it is actually effective. The more I read about these ads, the less I like them. Though I am currently employed, I spent a significant amount of time last semester refining my resume, scouring job boards and practicing my tough-interview-question answers.  I know there are a lot of recent and soon-to-be graduates out there are getting increasinly desperate to find a job in their field — but this is not the way to make that happen. Here are five reasons why ‘hire me’ Facebook ads need to die, now.

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