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Job Opening — community/content producer, New York

Posted on July 20, 2013 by John N. Frank

The job openings just keep coming, here’s one in public relations. Good luck and always be job hunting.
John

Community/Content Producer

Boutique Beauty Public Relations Agency seeks highly motivated, creative social media professional to join its dynamic and growing department as a Community/Content Producer. This person will work closely with the Director of Strategy and AVP of Digital on Fortune 500 accounts to create content, develop monthly content calendars and write posts. He/she will also act as our day to day client contact and assure that content aligns with brand objectives, meets KPI’s and is consistent with the brand voice across all social platforms.

HELP WANTED

Ideal candidate should have 3-4 years’ experience , possess an interest in beauty products and be relatively well versed/read on the beauty market.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Works closely with strategist and director to support 360 programs by creating content that reflect the brand voice across all platforms

• Develops brand voices that resonate with a brand’s social community and stimulate engagement while growing the community fan base

• Manages client expectations, projects and timelines and assures all asks are being addressed

• Stays on top of deadlines and makes sure that the team is aware of the latest information

• Assists director in managing sweepstakes, giveaways and other social promotions

• Monitors competitive landscape and creates insight reports with the support of the community manager

• Assists in creating social media decks on select accounts, as needed

• Informs clients & account teams of new concepts and best practices on community and content management

• Ensures that all content goes through the proper editing and approval process

• Flags issues and works with strategists to manage community performance issues

• Works with community manager to assure all posts are up to date and accurate

• Works with client to gather assets in a timely manner so that all posts are on schedule

• Stays up to date on new social media tools and best practices

• Assures community manager is maintaining Q&A documents and advocate lists

The ideal candidate will meet the following requirements:

• 3-4 years’ experience in digital/social media

• Is proficient in Photo Shop

• Demonstrates an ability to effectively manage several tasks at once

• Possesses strong project management skills

• Is responsible, highly organized and able to track and meet deadlines consistently

• Has a keen knowledge of existing and emerging social landscape

• Can demonstrate superior written and verbal communications skills

• Has excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with people at various levels

Contact: Sara Skirboll

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Job Opening — St. Bart’s, New York City, director of communications

Posted on July 19, 2013 by John N. Frank

This just came to my e-mail via an alumni listserv, sounds like it would be an amazing job in an amazing place, historic St. Bart’s church in New York. Good luck and always be job hunting.
John

New York’s historic St. Bart’s is seeking a director of communications

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

The Communications Director is responsible for all congregational and public relations communications activities and products of the church. The Director is responsible for managing and coordinating the overall functions of the communications departments for the parish and its ministries. Its purpose is to extend the reach of St Bart’s to the greater NYC area and the larger world as a church that is leading the way, by applying creative direction and contemporary communications practices in all media. The Director of Communications will report directly to the Chief Administrative Officer.

Responsibilities includes:

• Manage, create, and maintain the e-communications for the eNews weekly for the church and the Rector; Press for both online and print PR purposes (music, development, special events), primary contact for all related inquiries and calls; eBlasts for Children, Youth and Family Ministries, Development, Music and Rector’s office

• Creative Director and Webmaster for stbarts.org, director of design, responsible for ongoing maintenance and education utilization of content management systems

• Manage the BRAND across all media, advise about the BRAND both internally and externally

• Director of print communications, flyers, brochures for all departments, and annual report

• Provide all internal and external signage and banners for weekly forum, signs for services and special events

• Manage/supervise staff, including working collaboratively with people at all levels.

• Perform any other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
• Expertise in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, CMS and Web HTML development

• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, graphic arts or related field with knowledge of website management preferred

• 3-5 years of related supervisory experience

• Successful time-management, organizational and attention to detail skills

• Positive attitude and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Go to: http://www.stbarts.org to apply.

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Typos—everyone hates them, especially possible employers

Posted on July 17, 2013 by John N. Frank

Typos in a resume can kill your chances for a job interview faster than almost anything else you can imagine. That fact was brought home in a recent piece I read on resumetarget.com.

If you don’t know how to type, take lessons, a course, online or off, to get up to speed. If you haven’t used spell check for some reason, start. Nothing, no e-mail, resume or cover letter, should go out without spell checking.

How many resumes do you have? Spell check and proofread them all.

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How I Got My First Real Job

Posted on July 16, 2013 by John N. Frank

I wouldn’t advise only trying to catch on with one potential employer as this person did but it is nice to see that her persistence paid off. I’d say be persistent overall in job hunting.

Many Cups of Coffee

Starting out in a field anywhere is pretty difficult, especially these days. The economy is working its way out of recession, which means any world saving job particularly in the non-profit sector, is really strapped for money. Also, there is a large pool of candidates for most jobs.

My first experience with this came after I decided that I must work for this particular non-profit organization right after college. I had spent a few weeks traveling in Costa Rica and went right into job hunting (after my part time job) when I returned.

I applied for any position this organization had listed, thinking that they would at least see my name. I can’t even tell you how many positions I applied to. Finally, I was called for a counseling position interview. So I went in for my first interview.

I answered all of my questions enthusiastically, explained that this is…

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Telecommuting or a nap at work, which would you pick?

Posted on July 16, 2013 by John N. Frank

Telecommuting has grown increasingly popular over the years as harried Americans have tried to juggle work and family. But oddly enough a new poll suggests that slightly more people would like the option to nap at work than to telecommute.

“The survey of 250 U.S. workers and 250 U.S. managers on productivity has some more surprising findings:

61% of staffers surveyed say they want their company to allow 20-minute “power naps,” yet only 6% of companies offer such a policy.
60% of U.S. workers (and 73% of managers) say telecommuting is a big booster of productivity, although 51% of U.S. companies don’t have a formal telecommuting policy,” reports Thestreet.com of a poll commissioned by a division of Staples, the office supply chain.

Which would you prefer, working from home instead of in an office like this, or being able to nap at work?

I worked from home, telecommuting, for six and a half years and found it the most productive job I’ve had in a long, long time. I now work in an office that has a “Zen room” where presumably I could take a power nap each day but I never will given the open office environment in which I work and in which everyone watches everyone.

Which would you rather be able to do, nap at work, or work from home a day or more a week?

John N. Frank

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Dream Job — not exactly, for most of us, new poll finds

Posted on July 14, 2013 by John N. Frank

Most Americans aren’t happy in their jobs. Indeed, only 14% say they have the perfect job in a new survey commissioned by the online University of Phoenix, as reported by Reuters recently.

The piece goes on to discuss how dissatisfaction often leads to career changes, something I discuss and recommend in Always Be Job Hunting.

Found that dream job yet? Most haven’t.

“It is not uncommon for working adults to consider one or multiple career changes,” Dr. Bill Pepicello, the president of the University of Phoenix, said in a statement announcing the results,” Reuters reports.

“Choosing one career path after high school or college and sticking with it for the rest of a career is becoming less common as the pace of business and technology quickly change jobs and industries.,” Reuters quotes Pepicello saying. Continue reading →

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Update Your Resume Regularly

Posted on July 12, 2013 by John N. Frank

Saw this on a friend’s blog, good advice:

Update Your Resume Regularly.

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Job Hunting is Like Being a Face in the Crowd

Posted on July 11, 2013 by John N. Frank

A major principle of Always Be Job Hunting is to always be preparing for your next job and, indeed, for your next career.

I hope to retire from my full-time job in a few years and change to several part-time careers to keep me busy in my senior years. One of those will be acting, so I’ve been taking acting lessons and doing student films the past year and a half to prepare. An opportunity came up recently to be an extra in a major movie shooting in Chicago this summer, so I jumped at the chance to see the top levels of my new career in action.

What I ended up being for two days was a face in a very large crowd, 650 people or so all working as extras – the industry term is background artists – on this movie (watch for it next March, I’m under wraps in being able to talk about it).

Me, in my acting garb from an earlier acting class I’ve taken.

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Job Opening — social media marketing manager

Posted on July 9, 2013 by John N. Frank

Social media continues to be an area where jobs are growing, if you don’t have the skills, time to learn them. This is from Schawk in the Chicago area:

A key member of a growing team, the Social Media Marketing Specialist will be primarily responsible for managing all external-facing social media channels and blogs for SGK, Brandimage, Anthem, Schawk and Blue brands in support of our social strategies and broader marketing strategies and goals. Key Accountabilities:

January is job hunting season.

Manage all of Schawk’ Inc.’s social media channels
Work closely with Marketing team members and external partners to develop social media initiatives that support calendared marketing activities for our brands
Work closely with internal stakeholders to identify, create and execute content that is brand-appropriate Continue reading →

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Your Perfect Pitch: who are you, in 30 seconds or less

Posted on July 8, 2013 by John N. Frank

You need to be able to tell a potential employer who you are and how you can help, usually in 30 second or less. It’s known as the elevator speech, the quick description of yourself you’d give someone while riding in an elevator with them.

“So many go about it the wrong way. They talk about the glee club.’ It’s fine to be authentic and discuss your interests on an interview, but not at the expense of missing your message. ‘If I don’t know how [what you are saying is] going to help me, you’re not going to get the job,’” Mark Grimm, a public speaker and messaging strategist, says in a recent article on TheLadders.com.

Work on that elevator speech.

“The trick to mastering this type of effective communication in the job search is to prepare that message and make sure it’s tailored to a particular person. Continue reading →