10 Tips for Getting a Staff Writing Job

Posted: September 13, 2012

[caption id="attachment_10521" align="alignright" width="400"]© raywoo - Fotolia.com[/caption]Chances are that your job involves some writing, but perhaps demonstrating that skill doesn’t constitute enough of your workload, or it’s not the type of writing you’d like to do. Or perhaps you’re still in college, or have a job that doesn’t involve writing any more complicated than signing your time sheet. Regardless of your situation, at least some of the following tips will help lead you toward the writing job you want.

1. Develop a portfolio of college or continuing-education writing projects that resemble the work you would like to do professionally, and distribute it, or samples from it, to people who work at a company or in a profession that interests you.

2. Blog about your passions, on your own blog or someone else’s. Again, emulate the kind of writing you want to get paid to do.

3. Find people who do what you want to do for a living and volunteer to do some writing for them — to supplement, not to pass off as, their own assignments.

4. Submit articles to a local publication or to a website for a nonprofit organization with a mission or an area of interest that appeals to you. If they can’t pay you, offer to write for them anyway (at first).

5. Obtain an internship in a professional field you’d like to be part of, and persist in asking people you report to for writing assignments until they comply just to get you out of their office. Make yourself indispensable so that when a writing position is created or becomes vacant, managers will think of you.

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