Jobs For English Majors

New posts coming – for real this time

TJ — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:40:47 +0000

Hello everyone who visits my blog to read more on getting a job if you’re about to graduate, have recently graduated or are several years out of college with an English degree. I know it won’t mean much right now, but please accept my apologies for the lack of posting over the past year, and [...]

Travel, Writing Projects & More

TJ — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:29:30 +0000

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I wanted to send out my apologies once again for being far too light on posting lately here on JobsForEnglishMajors.com. Travel to see family on the weekends has taken up some of my time, as well as some contract assignments as both a managing editor for [...]

Where Editorial Careers Are Headed: Jobs That Combine Writing, Editing and Search Optimization

TJ — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:52:50 +0000

What will jobs and career paths look like for those working in the writing, editing and publishing world in the not-too-distant future? The Los Angeles Times has given us a clear-eyed look at one likely version of that future in a front-page article from March 6, titled “It’s Web 101 for This Experienced Intern.” The [...]

Why You Shouldn’t Get a Graduate Degree in English

TJ — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:50:56 +0000

There’s a provocatively titled article that’s been making the rounds on the Internet from the Chronicle of Higher Education, titled “Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go.” Written by an English professor at Michigan’s Hope College, the article goes into great detail on why the value students get from humanities graduate school may not [...]

Building Your Skill Set Beyond Writing: Why Tech Knowledge is Essential

TJ — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:52:51 +0000

If you’ve scoured the major job search sites on the Internet lately, you’ve probably arrived at the same conclusion I have: there are very few jobs available that focus purely on writing and editing. Most jobs in today’s business environment that pay a decent wage feature some combination of writing/editing and what is called in [...]

27 Writing Tips You Can’t Live Without

TJ — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:08:34 +0000

In reading a piece in the business section of today’s Sunday New York Times by Caitlin Kelly, a well-known New York freelance writer and journalist whose writing I admire, I came across her website and found that she’s put together a set of 27 essays on writing, the business of being a journalist and a [...]

Going Nonprofit: Working for Universities, Colleges & Schools

TJ — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:37:58 +0000

If you’re currently in college or are a recent graduate, then it’s likely you’re already familiar with the communications your educational institution has already sent your way. From quarterly magazines and annual reports to websites and email newsletters, the volume of both printed and electronic communications from colleges and universities as well as private, independent [...]

Trouble Finding Work in Journalism? Try Newsletters

TJ — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:41:32 +0000

As anyone who’s read the news anytime recently knows, the marketplace for print journalism is taking its most severe beating in decades. Newspapers from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the Chicago Tribune to even the vaunted New York Times are hitting perhaps their hardest economic slumps ever, and it’s resulting in layoffs at papers and magazines [...]

Freelancing 101: Writing for Magazines

TJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:47:06 +0000

Most writers, when they up a copy of Newsweek, Time or People in the supermarket or the bookstore, dream at least every now and then about seeing their names in print in one of the big-name glossy consumer magazines. But as nearly every writer who’s ever searched for a job at a magazine knows, consumer [...]

Want a Job as an Editor? Try Ed2010.com

TJ — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:02:08 +0000

If you’re in the hunt for an opening as a magazine editor — especially if you live in New York or on the west coast — then there’s probably no site on the Internet that’s as closely targeted to your niche as Ed2010.com. Begun just over a decade ago by Chandra Turner, who was then [...]