With a focus on getting media-savvy students ready for a career in media, this essential guide offers a current snapshot of job prospects and opportunities in media and communication. The authors take students through the entire process of career planning, from first considering a media-related career, all the way through their arrival in the workplace, while offering helpful and practical advice and strategies along the way. This edition has a new organization that starts at determining the career and then moves into finding the job. A new focus on growth areas in media industries highlight new career paths in streaming media and app development as well as new media positions within more traditional fields. New life skill tips offer suggestions on issues like how to relocate, manage finances, and more. Available as an e-book, the guide can be purchased on its own, or can be accessed as part of the Achieve for Media & Culture 13e by Richard Campbell, Christopher R. Martin, Bettina Fabos, and Ron Becker.

Overview: Targeted to today's media-savvy students, the Media Career Guide includes the latest information on using social media during a job search, as well as tips for navigating a rapidly changing digital media landscape. This essential manual includes an overview of today's employment opportunities and provides a comprehensive directory of media jobs. In addition, helpful guidelines walk readers through the entire job-search process, from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace.

Targeted to today's media-savvy students, the tenth edition of Media Career Guide includes the latest information on the emerging employment opportunities in mobile media, as well as tips for developing and honing professional networking skills. This essential manual provides an updated, comprehensive directory of media jobs, and walks readers through the entire job-search process, from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace.

Targeted to today's media-savvy students, the Media Career Guide includes the latest information on using social media during a job search, as well as tips for navigating a rapidly changing digital media landscape. This manual includes an overview of today's employment opportunities and provides a comprehensive directory of media jobs. In addition, helpful guidelines walk readers through the entire job-search process, from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace. The new edition now offers career advice from real media professionals and emphasizes the importance of creating and maintaining a professional online presence for the workplace.

The Ultimate Media Career Guide Want to pursue a career within the media industry? We have created this guide to help you determine and achieve your media career goals. The media industry is a broad and ever-growing field, providing opportunities for writers to work on everything from traditional journalism and copywriting to social media and marketing. As of 2020, there were reportedly 143,200 writers and authors working throughout the U.S. In addition, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for writers and authors is projected to grow 9% by 2030. A new form of digital media has risen to prominence in the past decade. Blogs and social media have given writers an outlet for their musings on everything from fashion to politics. Today, more than two billion people use social media daily, fueling a rise in the popularity of blogging. In addition, with the growth of the internet, writers now have access to new audiences worldwide. This has allowed both aspiring and established writers to develop successful careers in previously unavailable ways. We have created this comprehensive guide to help you determine and achieve your media career goals. Yellowbrick’s Ultimate Media Career Guide is your source to discover careers and learn entry points into the media industry. In this guide, you can explore the jobs that drive the market, then search for your perfect career by area of interest, skills, publications, or writers. Learn about your skills and interests, articulate them confidently to identify career options you might pursue, and implement a successful strategy to attain your desired career outcomes. In this guide, you’ll find the following information: · Overview of the media industry · The future of the writing and journalism market · Media Career Library · Career Planning Strategy to get into the media industry You’ll also find simple exercises that help you: · form a strategy to get into the media industry · find your passion within writing and identify an area of interest to pursue · learn the media industry through top publications, media platforms, and its key players · identify your skills and match them to a place of interest Whether you’re a novice, a student, or a professional, you can further your career path by accessing this guide that will help you understand media opportunities available and the skills and qualifications you need to succeed. About Yellowbrick.co Yellowbrick.co is on a mission to inspire the next generation to pursue a career that aligns their talents and passions with the universities and brands they know and trust. Working in partnership with the world’s leading universities, brands and industry experts, Yellowbrick creates learning experiences that help tomorrow’s leaders discover and pursue career paths in growing global industries that align with their passions, including fashion, sports, beauty, music and media.

Welcome to the media and journalism field! If you are interested in a career in media or journalism, you’ve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various professions? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more. Media and Journalism Professionals: A Practical Career Guide, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions. Editor in Chief Editor/Senior Editor Copy Editor Proofreader Reporter Correspondent Broadcast Journalist Photo Journalist

You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love. The revised third edition of the popular guide for offbeat individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills, talents, and passions. Updated throughout, including new inspiration and tips for keeping a creative job notebook. Descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, Web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). Previous editions have sold more than 60,000 copies.Reviews“What a great manual for young rebels and older freethinkers who are plotting their next career move.”—Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.