Bookmarks: Job Links

Read My Clips is an answer to a favorite question. This is the Detroit Free Press Jobs Page's "Winning Clips Win Interviews." It has advice for writers, editors, photographers, and designers on compiling clips for newspaper jobs, but it also applies to freelancers on the prowl, of course. "New Media" here denotes the Internet. The résumé section is interesting, too.

Quintessiential Careers offers a cover letter tutorial and a lot of résumé writing links at the site. You can find this sort of advice at the other career-oriented sites as well.

National Writers Union: National Survey Freelance and Contract Writer's Rates Summer 1999. Check it out, yet another rates survey for writers, editors, and proofreaders.

Most of these sites are free, but some aren't. Some may require registration or membership. Be certain to read the terms on the site. With the classified ads, look for posting dates--some of these sites will still be running ads long after the jobs have been taken and finished.

Posts classified ads

Lists freelancers

About.com: Writer's Exchange/Writers Wanted: Section devoted to writer classifieds. There are also links on this page to other related job pages. Web content jobs seem to predominate.
AJR Job Link for Journalists: Classified ads for writers, editors, and such. Has a nice search page.
ASI Science and Medicine SIG: Freelancer listing for an American Society of Indexers special interest group. Indexers who specialize in science and medicine and are SIG members can list their business here.
Ants.com: A contractor bidding site: jobs are posted with an amount, contractors post their resumes and bid. Translation, design, writing, and website jobs here, as well as some other unusual things.
Aquarius.net: Online searchable database of freelance translators, job postings, articles.
Association of American University Presses Job Openings: In-house university press job openings around the country. I haven't seen anything freelance related here, but I suppose it could happen.
Australian Resume.net: A searchable registry service for "high-tech" jobs, which includes website designer and content contractors. Australia only.
Australian Society of Editors Victoria Queensland New South Wales (offline only) South Australia Canberra Western Australia Tasmania: Each CASE site has a listing of member freelancers with detailed contact information. (The other site, Australian Internet Registry of Professional Editors, appears to have disappeared.)
Australian Society of Indexers: Among other things, this site has a listing of member freelancers, listed by name, materials, specialities, and locations (includes NZ and Papua New Guinea).
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: J-Jobs: Newspaper, photography, magazine, and internet writing and other jobs. Updates once a week or so.
Board of Editors in the Life Sciences: Home of the BELS editor certification exam, this site has a freelancer database. You have to have BELS certification to list yourself here.
Bookbuilders West Job Bank: Classified ads (primarily in-house) and links to other job sites. Most (but not all) are western U.S.
BookPro Zone: Will run your listing (with registration) for multiple types of publishing service categories and has a job board area (in house and otherwise).
Career Mosaic: A job search site, mostly of permanent positions, some temporary. Enter "writer" or "editor" or "proofreader" into the search, either job title or description. This appears to be swimming with tech writer positions.
Communications Arts: Careers: Site for designers and DTP people, with job postings, (by region or by most recent listing), area for personal listings for freelancers, and tips for freelancers on website design.
Content Exchange: Free listings for freelancers who specialize in website content (writing, design, art, coding, and so on).
Copyediting-L Freelancers: Free listings for CE-L freelancers. You must be a list subscriber (on postpone is okay) to be listed here.
Copyediting-L Mailing List: Occasional freelancer-needed postings. The tag is JOB-OP: if you're using the list's filters.
The Copy Editor Job Board: This site contains all sorts of useful information, including a free job board that runs ads for both in-house and freelance openings for editors and proofreaders.
Council of Science Editors Classified Ads: (Was Council of Biology Editors.) Job ads and job-seeker ads (both members and non-members, rates on Web site). See also EyeNet's English Editing Assistance for Ophthalmology
Craigslist: Bay Area Online Community: If you live in California, go to this site. When I checked it out there were bunches of recent editorial and writing job classifieds in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. Some are 'Net startups. (For everyone else, check out the "et cetera" category and marvel at the weirdness that is California.)
Creative Freelancers: Free listings for freelance artists, writers, and so on. There's also a classified ad section, but none of the entries in it are dated, so no telling how old they are. A pretty clunky site.
DesktopPublishing.com Job Bank: Short page of ads for graphics and DTP people only, U.S. and international, in-house and not. (Worst background ever, but if you turn off the background, the text is readable.)
Dice.com: High Tech Jobs Online: Search engine for job classifieds. Enter a search term such as "writer" or "editor."
Editor and Publisher: This is primarily devoted to the newspaper industry. Note: most positions listed, regardless of type, get clumped together here under the heading "Editorial."
The Editor's Pen: Another place you can list your business: writers, indexers, editors. Also, the site owner's "getting started" FAQ. There are job search links here as well.
eLance.com: List your services (Fixed Price) or bid on jobs (RFP, request for proposals). It's listed as free "during beta" (04/00).
FlipDog: Job search site where you can also list your resume. You can search by state (U.S. only), employer, or type of position. The listings link directly to the originating site. Joy's review: "I'll tell you about an easy marketing tool I tripped over recently. www.flipdog.com is a job site that harvests employer Websites for listings. It claims to have more jobs than any other site, and the worst of its junk is only employment agencies, whose job listings are all clearly marked as such. At this Website, you can set up 'create a jobhunter' in any employment field (I picked "publishing/technical writing") and specify the keyword 'freelance.' For the past week, the Jobhunter has been sending me an e-mail every day with a dozen or so job listings. Some are onsite; some others are for positions with job duties of recruiting or managing freelancers, which are still leads; some are very interesting. You can reply to a listing via e-mail directly from the Website with your resume and cover letter."(08/20/00)
FreeAgent: An unfortunate site, not at all oriented to publishing services (in fact, I don't know who would have picked the categories they use here). You can check under Creative, New Media, or wade through the morass that is Other. Or just go to better sites... Anyway, this site lets you create an online "portfolio" for yourself.
Freelance Editorial Association (FEA) Jobs/Bulletin Board: Editorial and writing jobs, mostly traditional publishing with some web related.
Freelance List: For about $10/month, you can list your business. At present, most of the site isn't operational. I can't recommend this one, as there are plentiful free sites (that work) that offer the same services. (8/20/00)
Freelance Online: Information, links, and a pretty active posting board for freelancers. You have to be a subscriber to access the job classifieds. You can also post your own information online. (Joining is $15/year, see the site. 02/25/00.)
FreelanceWriting.com Job Bank: Lots of freelance writing jobs--unsurprisingly, many are web related, many are international. Other sections of the site include an area for listing your own ad, and there's also a link to the eLance site (bidding and such).
GovCon's BidRadar Service: Site that lists available government contract opportunities for independent contractors (including writing and such). Email update list and information and resources links on the site. Also see the site's "Contracting 101" section. Plus: Proposal Writing and Government Contracting. This is a private site, owned by a Deborah Kluge, that provides a ton of information on proposals and grant writing.
Guru: Another independent contractor site. You sign up as a "guru" and post your profile and information. You can also shop for "gigs" that are posted here. Most, but not all, of the listing I read here were website oriented. (Per TOS, currently the service is free, but they reserve the right and so on.)
Home Jobs Plus: Telecommuting jobs of all kinds, mainly telemarketing but once in a while some editorial types.
InkSpot Writers' Classifieds: Mostly freelance writing, a lot of web-related offers. There's also a section where you can list yourself for free (or pay a fee to keep your ad at the top of the page).
Inscriptions Job Opportunites: Freelance and in-house writing and copyediting, includes traditional and web publishing. Updated weekly. There's also an e-newsletter for this site.
iUniverse Job Board: Traditional and not-so-traditional publishing positions, in-house and freelance. Includes book publishers, magazines, some websites, and the occasional private. Writing, editing, design, and more. The entries are up to date.
Jeff Gaulin's Canadian Journalism Job Board: All Canada, all the time. Ads jobs with traditional (news, mags, TV) publications and Internet sites.
Job Shark: Canada and U.K./Ireland equivalent of the Monster Board. Search engine of job openings.
JournalismJobs: Classifieds for writers and editors (and factcheckers). Mostly this is for in-house with the news/mags but there's a freelancer section. You can also post résumés here.
Literary Market Place (LMP) Online: Default is US edition, with links to Canadian, International, and Small Press sites. You have to register to view most parts of this site; the publisher info available is limited unless you buy a subscription. Freelancers can place listings in the Trade Services: Services and Suppliers section.
Literary Translators' Association of Canada: Lengthy freelancer listings for members.
MasterFreelancer's Free Classifieds: A posting board, sort of messy, where you can pitch yourself.
MediaBistro Job Listings: Current job ads for writing and editing positions. Most are in-house, many are magazine and media related, some are web related, some are temp, some may be freelance.
Media Personnel: Writer, artist, graphics, editor, photographer, and other related listings for freelancers in working with magazines, newspapers, and web sites. This is a listings site, and most of those listed here that I saw are Australia and U.K. freelancers.
Metrovox.org: Writer, editor, designer jobs. Most seem to be in-house deals, but some aren't. Includes a fair number if "new media" (Internet oriented) positions.
M-Grapevine: InPharm's directory of freelancers who provide services in the broad areas of medical communications (writers, editors, translators, designers, and so on). Free listings for freelancers with links to freelancer web pages.
The Monster Board: Massive site, with job search engine with resume database. You'll just have to root around. Monster also has a rather peculiar section devoted to auctioning off independent contractor services that it calls the FreeAgents Talent Market. I'm not really clear on the point of this, so you'll just have to look it over.
NASW-freelance and NASW-jobs: National Association of Science Writers mailing lists.
National Writers Union Job Hotline: Descriptions of in-house and contract positions are online; you have to be a NWU member and pay a fee to the organization to get contact information for these jobs.
New Media Federation Job Listings: Classifieds for writers and editors for newspapers and websites. Some ads are freelance.
Publisher's Weekly Classifieds: Occasionally freelancer ads appear here. The main site is useful for all sorts of publishing industry information.
Seek.com: Search engine for positions in Australia. Contract jobs is one of the categories, includes graphics, DTP, and 'Net type work. You can also put your résumé online here.
SourceForge Help Wanted System: For the technically inclined (especially the UNIX/Linux oriented) here are occasional content and manual writing/editing/translating stints as part of project groups. These are, of course, mainly computer and programming oriented. Some of the open source jobs won't pay beans (so do it for experience only, power to the people, you know the drill), but some apparently do involve the green stuff.
STC Job and Salary Information: Society for Technical Communications job database of permanent and contract positions for writers, editors, translators, designers, and others for the U.S., Canada, and international. You don't have to be a member to view the listings. There's also a salary survey on this site.
Studio B Buzz: Classifieds for writers, editors, and proofreaders (freelance and otherwise) for the computer book industry. Check out the rest of the site, as it has loads of material on writing computer books.
Sunoasis Jobs for Writers, Editors, Copywriters: Opening and closing dates posted. The ads are categorized by region and seem to be up-to-date. This site is primarily for writing jobs, with some editorial (primarily websites). There's a freelance section, and a links section to ads on other sites.
Telecommuting Jobs: Post an ad or look over help-wanteds for freelance writers (some editorial), also website developers and other miscellaneous telecommuter positions.
Themestream: Not technically a job site, but involves a little money. This is that much-discussed site where you put up your old articles, and get paid a small fee when people read them. Marg says, "I've had three articles up there for a week and have found that how much money you make depends on what you post. A travel article has received exactly zero hits, while an article on how to write a synopsis has received 81. I think it's great for pieces you've already made your money on and you would have left in a drawer somewhere otherwise, since you make little money up-front but could potentially make a small chunk of money over time."
The Write Jobs: Writers Write commericial site's journalism jobs section, primarily writing jobs.
Work for Writers Mailing List: Francine Modderno's list "for professional writers, staff or freelance, to find job leads, share information on job searches, writing contacts, contracts, writers' organizations, etc. It's also for employers to post jobs for print, screen and tv writers, journalists, editors, book indexers, etc."
Writerfind Freelance and Telecommuting Jobs: New Zealand and International: Classifieds for New Zealand freelance writers and editors. The international page covers Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Writing Employment Center: Ads for editors and writers (copy and tech) in the book and Internet industries. Very up-to-date listings when I checked it, but the majority do appear to be in-house jobs.
Xlibris.com: This is a vanity e-press (meaning, author pays the publisher to put a book together). It doesn't hire any freelance help, but rather has a listing area for author services (i.e., authors can shop for their own editors, proofreaders, designers, whatever).


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