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Dear Employers!!! I beg you to PLEASE know the differences between each social media role before posting your job openings. This helps with setting realistic expectations for yourself and letting us know if this is the right fit for us. The worst thing in the world is being hired for a job as a “Social Media Editor” and given the expections, responsibility, and goals of a Social Media Director, Strategist, or Marketing Manager. Words cannot express how frustrating it is to be bogged down everyday given duties that are either above our titles, or are simply outside of our expertise. And threats of “expectations not being met” forcing you to “rethink” the role A.K.A. “Do this or you’re fired,” don’t magically make those skills appear within us. While social media jobs may look all the same on the surface, they can be wilding different. (That’s also why the salaries vary.) For instance, you wouldn’t have your Content Manger leading the charge of your Influencer Marketing Team, right? Trust me when I say, it is more frustrating for us than it is for you. Take the extra time to research different roles/the responsibilities that come with them, be clear in your hiring process of EXACTLY what your brand goals are, and spend the extra money hiring for the role you want.

Mercury Talent media industry hiring data   - May 2024 media industry jobs: https://lnkd.in/gk3qxFzF - June 2024-to-date media industry jobs: https://lnkd.in/gEE7HUjC   Some key points: * The total number of advertised media industry jobs we track rebounded slightly in May 2024 to 413 jobs - up 6.4% from April but still below the 420 jobs advertised in March 2024. * Sydney remains the biggest media industry jobs market with 74% of advertised positions in the harbour city. The Sydney job market grew 8.5% while the Melbourne job market went backwards 7.5%. * Looking at job functions, the CEO role at CRA was the only top management role in May. The number of advertised content roles fell a further 10% to 99 jobs which is 20% below the 124 content roles advertised in March. After dipping in April, product/ops roles rebounded back to March levels in May. Demand for sales people grew another 2.5% in May to 162 advertised jobs, up 12% from the 145 sales jobs advertised in March. Marketing/comms roles in the media industry grew from 32 to 39, up slightly from the 36 marketing/comms roles advertised in March. * Of the 413 advertised media industry jobs tracked by Mercury Talent in May, just under half (200) were junior executive-level positions and another 192 were mid-level roles. Only 21 positions (5%) were director/senior management roles - bad news for mid/senior-level team leaders hit by the waves of consolidation and redundancies we have seen over the past 6-12 months. * The top recruitment advertisers in May were Southern Cross Austereo, REA Group, oOh!, ARN and Nine in Melbourne, while the recruitment teams at TikTok, News Corp, Nine, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Are Media Pty Ltd, Foxtel Group, Google and Mamamia were busy in Sydney. Overall, the biggest recruiters for May were News Corp, TikTok, Nine, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), REA Group, Southern Cross Austereo, Foxtel Group, Are Media Pty Ltd, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia, Google and oOh!

🚨 JOB NEWS 🚨 SFGATE is expanding again! We just opened 2 new roles! 🌲 North Coast Contributing Editor (20hrs per week, $45K-$50K) ✍ Contributing News Editor (20hrs per week, $45K-$50K) This expands our newsroom to 55 journalists, we've created 34 new jobs since 2021 and had 0 layoffs during that span. Let's start with the North Coast Contributing Editor! This is such a cool role! We're looking for a contributing editor (20hrs/wk) to cover the coast and far north of the state generally. We want a couple features a week and are looking for writers with deep ties to the area who can challenge readers’ understanding of a place they love to visit or already live in. We want locals (or near-locals), who understand the history of where they live, and the implications of changes to it. They should be able to provide an expert's perspective on these places that readers can't get elsewhere. And we want someone who can shine a light on an important place to a community that otherwise doesn't get a lot of shine. What about the Contributing News Editor? Glad you asked: We write lots of very ambitious pieces at SFGATE and those ambitious pieces need a steady hand guiding them throughout the editing process — whether they're investigations, FOIA deep dives or about a sensitive topic. If you're super comfortable navigating all of those and have a bunch of writers who will be waiting in line to talk about how you’re the best editor they've ever had, you should apply. These hires will give us 43 incredibly talented journalists providing best in class coverage of the Bay Area, but also 12 others covering the rest of CA + Hawaii, including in a lot of complete media deserts. Join us. https://lnkd.in/grGcM4B7

The Job Market ⚰️ I’ve never known it to be as quiet as this 🔇 There were more opportunities during COVID and when Lehman Brothers crashed 🦠 🏦 Since redundancy as Senior Copywriter at Virgin Media O2 in August, I’m #opentowork ✍🏼 I'm London-based but can work for a company anywhere in the world 🌏 Follow my profile to discover how I can help your #business through words 🗯️ #hiring #humanresources #marketing #socialnetworking #jobinterviews

This will be a terrific webinar on hearing what agency recruiters want to see in your portfolios! Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication - University of Minnesota Strategic Communication students you should sign up for this! Check it out and thanks book180 for putting this together.

Open Roles bellow, scroll down. If you are looking, you know this already, but you are up against a lot of competition right now. If you do the homework, then the tests are easy. The tests are the interview. The homework is what you need to do to prepare. I have mentioned this multiple times but know more then you need. About the company, the role, the technologies, the competition, the recent news, the person. KNOW IT. It won’t hurt. What hurts? Is when someone ask you. Do you know what ABCDE is? YES So what is it? OH..ABCDE? I thought you meant something else. If you are looking, take a look, if not for you, pay it forward! Dennis Sarlo West Elm Seniors Copywriter  https://lnkd.in/ez9Xp_RE Shoshana Winter Merkle Senior Art Director https://lnkd.in/eeUW7rTC Jeff Stevenson Revolt Digital Ad Solutions Specialist (Ad Ops) https://lnkd.in/exdcT942 RECENT POSTS https://lnkd.in/eNDE5Pni https://lnkd.in/eNEAqrAY https://lnkd.in/edRVevhp #jobs #jobadvice #openroles #jobopportunities

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Meet rising sports journalist Rachel Hopmayer. If talking about Blackhawks, Red Wings, Penguins, Bruins, Stars, Preds, Lightening, Capitals, and Flyers is your thing, you must connect with Rachel and explore getting her on your team. Rachel has been with TalentBlvd since our launch, in March 2021 and developed industry relationships all along the way. She understands the value of a TalentBlvd.com profile, especially the networking opportunities that come with her membership. One FREE profile on TalentBlvd reaches all O&O's and 16 media companies in 200+ markets, AND all of our Talent Agent friends and followers. Why create a profile on 20+ individual career sites? PLUS, join us for $5 to use the Job Board with 5,000 open TV jobs across all 16 media companies and get a VERIFIED profile. There are hundreds of Anchor, Producer, Reporter, and Host roles open right now! If you are a Reporter/Anchor, Producer, Meteorologist, Sports Reporter, Photog, Editor, Writer, Account Executive, or Freelancer, you can gain visibility of media hiring managers and their open roles by building and managing a profile on three platforms; TalentBlvd.com, LinkedIn, YouTube. Build an eye-catching profile like Rachel's in just 5 minutes using the TalentBlvd.com FREE profile template. It's super easy and you can get started here > https://bit.ly/3EQoUeR Follow TalentBlvd for #realTVjobs #tvcareers #mediacareers #mentor #talentagent #talentagency #mentoringmatters #talentblvd

As comms strategists, we talk to clients often about how challenging the media landscape is and how the bar to land coverage gets higher and higher. But the breadth and depth of the most recent wave of media layoffs brings those already-existing challenges to a new level. We aren’t just seeing newsrooms have fewer writers and reporters. We are also seeing those newsrooms rely on AI in ways that completely eliminate the ability to identify media and share story ideas. It’s not just PR rhetoric to try to explain why a pitch isn’t landing. The hard truth is that there are far fewer mainstream avenues to land stories, and outlets are much more focused on the types of stories that can garner attention and generate revenue. And we may see more competing pitches going out as journalists look to transition to communications in the next phase of their career (if any journos are contemplating that - I highly recommend it as someone who did it myself!) I say all this to say, if you’re working with a consultant or agency trying to land a story, you cannot do so in a vacuum. You are not immune. These media changes directly impact you. These media changes make this work substantially more difficult and demand many things from you including 1) raising the bar on ensuring what you have in really newsworthy and 2) expanding your horizons to more niche and smaller outlets. It’s a tough road ahead, but onward and upward as we navigate this new landscape.

HIRING ALERT: We've focused a lot over the past 8 years at Barrett Media on covering the sports and news media industry through a mixture of daily industry news, expert opinions, and conversations with broadcasting professionals. It's helped us create an online community for media folks, and bring together the industry through our sports and news media conferences. Our crew has grown from one (me) to now twenty-four contributors including six full-timers. Having great consulting clients and advertising partners has made this possible. We're still very much a small business, but we grind daily to help, challenge, and promote the media industry. Having said that, finding people who love to write about the media business, can do it consistently, have passion for it, and know the issues facing folks on the inside isn't easy. You've had to work in radio, TV, sales, digital, etc. to tell these stories properly, and it doesn't matter if you've worked in sports, news, music, tech, marketing, podcasting, etc. However, talking on the radio or TV or selling ads or programming a brand is different than staring at a blank screen, and creating a compelling news story, feature or column. I say this because I'm working on a few things to make our brand even stronger. I'm going to be adding in a few new areas soon, and would love to hear from broadcast professionals who have an interest in covering, and writing about the business. A simple email with your resume and writing sample works. Just reach out to JBarrett@sportsradiopd.com and if there's a fit, I'll follow up. Thanks in advance for your interest! #Broadcast #Broadcasting #Radio #TV #Television #Marketing #Sales #Sports #News #Music #Media #Jobs #Business #Digital