The recent Ask Ed column advising against grad school struck a chord with a number of Edsters and started quite a debate on the message board. To get to the bottom of this, we decided to investigate the question further: Is it worth it to get a master’s in journalism?
Interviewing sucks …
… but you gotta do it to get a paycheck. Ed reveals how to impress the socks off even the snootiest HR executive.
Interviewing is one part of life that never becomes completely effortless-even if you've been on a ton of them. But whether you're going for your first job as an EA or your tenth as a deputy editor, nailing that first impression can be a piece of cake, if you follow a few guidelines.*
You just heard about a fantastic job, so you rush to send your generic, “copy and paste” cover letter and resume, right? Wrong! Ed knows job postings are thin these days so the glory of finding one is huge, but don’t hurry to send off a cookie-cutter cover letter and resume, or chances are you won’t score the interview you hope for.
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.. that all of the Ed staff, including Ed himself, are full-time magazine editors? And did you further know that everything that they do for Ed (and, duh, you) they do it out of the goodness of their hearts? (Read: no pay.) OK; Just had to clear that up.
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