Welcome to this week’s edition of Six-Figure Writing Jobs!
I’m so glad you’re here!
It’s a mixed week for opportunities with a total of 27 new opportunities in journalism, writing, communications and more, all of which are hybrid or remote. Featured companies include WSJ Magazine, Elle, Forbes, Conde Nast Traveller, Edelman, ProPublica, Coinbase, Amazon, Oracle, The Atlantic, Visa, GM and many others. Pay goes up to $2 per word for freelance work, and pay goes up to $210,000 per year.
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One thing that caught my eye this week:
As I was starting to work on this newsletter I stumbled across Jacob Kleinman’s post on LinkedIn. I don’t know Jacob, personally, but I know someone who commented on his post and I found his transparency about the job market and his applications, incredibly refreshing.
I’m not sure when publications (I’m looking at you for this job, WIRED, which I shared a few weeks ago in this newsletter when it first came online) started requiring pages of “deep dives” on what they’re doing wrong and right as part of the job application process but this feels incredibly egregious–especially in a market that is no longer geared toward finding the best employees but rather focused on extracting as much information and work from you for free before even responding to your application. I’m sure many of you have seen this process rise in applications–where you start what seems like a simple, normal application and then suddenly you are asked to do a “one off” project that the company then takes and turns into something that they make massive amounts of money off of. It’s happened to my sister who is in the fashion business–and it’s happened to me–with publications ripping off my pitches and assigning them to full-time staffers instead. I’ve even had to do psych evaluations as part of a job (and no I’m not kidding) interview process–and provide seven (YES 7!) written recommendations from former bosses, and reports.
I get a lot of questions about what to do when something like this happens–and as an experienced journalist, I have less fear now about confronting this kind of egregious practice than I used to ten years ago when I began freelancing. It depends on your comfort level with conflict, but I do believe that in the current political and cultural environment, it pays to be direct when someone steals your ideas, your content and your work. As journalists, writers and comms professionals, its important to stand your ground and defend your work.
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