Andy Dickinson: a guide to digital journalism job hunting
Online journalism lecturer Andy Dickinson (@digidickinson) recently gave a lecture to his broadcast students advising on ways to find jobs online and promote themselves digitally.
His presentation appears in this slideshare:
Here’s another tip for creating a customised jobs feed using Journalism.co.uk’s jobs board search facility.
In the top left-hand column on most of the pages on Journalism.co.uk, you will see a panel headed “Job of the week”. About half-way down there is a dropdown menu that allows you to search by job type. For this example, select “editorial assistants and trainees” and click “go”.
On the subsequent search results page, you will see at the top of the central column an advanced search form. This allows you to make a more detailed search based on sectors, categories, salary and location. You will also see an option under format to “return search results as RSS feed”. Select that and also tick “editorial assistants and trainees” under the “categories” section.
Click the search button and, voila, you will be presented with a customised RSS feed containing only editorial assistant and trainee vacancies.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Thanks for blogging about this John. It was a much longer session than the slides would suggest. I’ll put up a bit of a script at some point but if anyone wants to ask questions or clarify any points I’m happy to do that on twitter, the blog or here.
Ta
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
spelling rampant correctly in the opening slide would probably help..
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
ooops. thanks for pointing that out Paul
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Hi Andy, let me know when you publish the script and we’ll link to it.
And thanks for the offer to answer questions – does anybody have any?
April 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
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April 29th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I’ve posted a quick run down of the slides to add a bit more context.
http://www.andydickinson.net/2010/04/29/digital-job-hunting/
April 29th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
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