Copyblogger now offers a classified sections of sorts for writing jobs. As a company with a need for a ghost writer, blogger, or copy editor, you can post your job offering. If you are said ghost writer, blogger, or copy editor, you can peruse the offerings and accept the one that appeals to your palate.
Out of curiosity, I did some perusing myself. Some ads were the typical "here's the job, what we need, and how to apply." Some other companies went above and beyond. Bland vs. delicious.
Established, growing ad agency is in need of an entry-level copywriter. Your portfolio is not as important as your ability to think quickly, to shift gears on the fly from project to project, and your willingness to attend to the many details of producing top-quality advertising. This position is a six-month paid internship, without benefits, geared toward an individual motivated to work in an exciting, non-corporate setting, to gain exposure to a wide range of disciplines associated with creative/marketing professions, and to develop real-world work experience. The highly successful candidate will be in a prime position for a full-time job at the close of the internship, having learned agency clients, process, etc.
In this role, you will be asked to contribute to finalizing creative work for which a direction/theme has already been established; to write preliminary draft copy to materials for which an outline has been established; to gather and organize the background material from which copy will be developed; to fill-in portions of creative where certain copy elements have been revised or need inclusion; to review creative works in progress and inventory content still needing development; to assist in proof-reading, fact-checking, and reviewing thematic consistency of work before it enters final production. You will interact with other departments (design, interactive, production, etc.) to ensure that they have the content they require; this will not be a sit-at-your-desk-and-contemplate position.
Candidates for this entry-level position need provide nothing other than a resumé, references, and a persuasive 100-word response to this question: who would be the better professional dog walker, an astronaut or a caveman?
While the beginning of this ad wasn't particularly noteworthy, I loved the writing prompt at the end. Someone has a sense of humor and style.
Here's another:
I like your work. It's got good clean design. Elegant but simple style. Clean layout and navigation. I assume you did it all yourself. Created the graphics, styled it, grabbed some open source applets.
Can you do the same for us? I've got a great job for you if you can.
We're looking for a webmaster/print designer who can take over our web sites, blogs, and print design. You're going to improve the graphics, stabilize our brand look, add new features, and make it more interesting. Then you're going to build something new every month or so. A new blog. A community. A cool mailing.
You won't be working on any old web site. Our blogs are where bloggers go to debate the future of blogging. Our sites provide the spark that starts the conversation.
You'll be the main creative person in the company, implementing a consistent look and feel across our web sites and print material. When we need outside help, you'll supervise external agencies or freelancers. You will be a core part of our team (not the geek in the basement).
The job:
* Web design and production - 50%: Your primary job will be to manage our web sites, blogs, and emails. Get our content online, out the door, looking great, smartly coded. You'll create and edit Web pages, build new sites, and re-style off-the-shelf applications (like blogs and shopping carts).
* Graphic design and production - 30%: Develop a fantastic and consistent brand look and implement it across various media, including print marketing material, reports, PowerPoint, flyers, etc. We value a super-clean, white-spaceful, bold-primary-colorful look. Think Gap/Crate & Barrel/Apple, but with some splashes of color. We work mostly in Adobe Creative Suite.
* Web development - 20%: Maintain our web server, install new programs, test new software. You don't need to be a coder/programmer, but you need to be able to keep things working on a Linux platform. We like to play with open-source tools. Most of the site is driven by Movable Type. The pages are pretty clean CSS (but we like them cleaner). We have fun seeing how far we can take a free piece of software. We're playing with Pligg, Drupal, and Ning.
* If you have a different combination of skills, please do still contact us. We're flexible and will change the job for the right person.
I loved the conversational nature of this ad, plus the willingness to be human ("will change the job for the right person").
If I were looking for a job or a freelance assignment, guess what I'd go for? Delicious wins out every time.
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