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Summary: Getting a writing job online involves searching through the various job-searching Web sites, such as monster.com and careerbuilder.com, but freelance writing jobs are often available through online auctions. Bid on a freelance assignments for magazines and other publications with tips from an ivy league English professor in this free video on writing jobs.
David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere. He has published poetry, essays, short fiction and a novel, and he has worked in book and magazine publishing.read more
"Finding a writing job online is... well, it's much like finding a writing job anyplace else. First of all, you have to decide what you mean by a job. Are you looking for a nine to five job? There are very, very few writing jobs of that sort. Most writing jobs are freelance jobs. Well, looking for a full-time job, let's assume you have the qualifications. You go to all these standard job search sites -- monster.com and careerbuilder -- I think -- dot-com. Look under writer. You'll find very few, and most of those are, in fact, very specialized for specific types of writers -- copywriters, technical writers, and so on. A lot of those, you can set to be national searches, and if you're willing to move someplace, include that place in your search. More likely, what you're going to find is freelance jobs, and there are a number of freelance websites for freelance jobs. Elance is the one that I belong to. There's -- I think -- guru.com is another. Be prepared to bid on the job. These are mostly auctions, so you're bidding as low as you can. This is a race to the bottom, not to the top. So be prepared to bid and to defend your ability to do the job. You can look for other jobs online -- again, we're talking freelance jobs. Basically, it's market research. Who's looking for a particular type of magazine article? So you find out what the magazines are in that area. Writer's Market has a database. You have to belong to get the information, but it's not that expensive. And if you're going to be making money at it, it pays for itself. There are other databases -- market lists -- you can find. For the bulk of jobs -- freelance copywriting, things like this, writing speeches for people -- you're going to have to find the big databases, and that's where I would turn to the Elance and Guru and those types of databases."
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