Resources

Tips from NYWICI Coaches
NYWICI members are entitled to a free session from one of our coaches, exclusive access to coaching salons and a discount for our annual Night of the Coaches event. Coaches can help you achieve a higher level of personal and professional success. We’ve gathered tips and tricks from our coaches and words of advice.

Recruiters Offer Hot Job-Search Strategies 
Cultivating a relationship with a recruiter is important for mid-level communicators in search of a career boost. Three seasoned recruiters offered NYWICI members these important tips on how to surpass the competition, tell the story of your special abilities, and convince a future employer that you’re the one who will impact their business. 

 

Fresh From the @NYWICI Twitter Feed:

• How to Write a Visual Resume
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: 5 Things Not to Fret About When Job Hunting (Mediabistro)
• Action and Phrases that are Job Interview Suicide (CBS Money Watch)
• Why Today’s Interview Process is So Difficult (US News & World Report)
• 10 Best Websites for Your Career (Forbes)
• 11 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Digital Marketing Resume (iMedia Connection)
• Go From Intern to Full-Time Employee in 8 Easy Steps (Mashable)
• Tricks for Decoding the Thorniest Interview Questions (US News & World Report)
• Asking The Right Questions Can Make or Break Your Interview (The Washington Post)
• Will Your Interviewer Be a Good Boss? Questions Before You Take the Job (Lifehacker)

Industry Trends:

• Top 10 Career Success Tips
• Six Social Media Networks to Watch
• The Power of Story Business by Joan Dowling
• Promoting Yourself with a Great Story by Ginny Pulos 

How-To and One-On-One:

From NYWICI's newsletter CONNECT:

• Hillary on the Hill: 9 Tips for Sitting in the Hot Seat by Ginny Pulos
• Networking Do's And Dont's
• Non-Traditional Jobs in Communications Today
• Becoming Your Own Boss
• Broadcast Journalists Converse
• Rethinking the Workplace
• The Finance of Career Transition
• Preparing for a Global Career 
   

Articles published in NYWICI's e-newsletter NYWICINow

• Advice from NYWICI Coaches 
• Business Trumps Shyness: Members Tell Their Stories 
• NYWICI Members Hire Members

Useful Links:

• Blog Posts written for NYWICI's ALOUD Blog
• The Bare Bones That Every Freelance Contract Should Have (via designinformer.com)
• Job Cover Letters: Sample Opening Lines
• CareerIntelligence.com: Salary Talk During the Job Interview
• The Science, Business & Industry Library (SIBL), located at 188 Madison Avenue at 34^th Street in mid-town Manhattan, has a Job Search Central site, offering a wealth of career resources including access to corporate databases and rooms for meetings. In addition, representatives from SCORE, a national non-profit group that works with the Small Business Administration, provide free counseling and training for small business owners and start-ups.
• New York Public Library: "Are Electronic Job Applications a Black Hole?"
• WIRED Magazine: "Supercharge Your Resume" (subscription required)
• The Wall Street Journal's Careers Site  (subscription required)

Job Search Sites:

Some sites require membership or registration:

• Advertising Age
• American Institute of Graphic Artists
• American Society of Journalists and Authors
• American Society of Magazine Editors/MPA
• American Society of Picture Professionals
• Bookjobs 
• Craigslist
• Editorial Freelancers Association
• Gorkana
• Green Jobs
• Journalism Jobs
• Indeed
• Int'l Association of Business Communicators
• Jobhunt.org
• Jobing.com — search by zip code
• MediaBistro
• National Investor Relations Institute
• New York Public Library
• New York Women in Film & Television
• PaidContent.org
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Job Bank
• PRWeek
• Public Relations Society of America
• Public Service
• Publishers Weekly
• Society for Professional Journalists
• Society of American Business Editors and Writers
• TVjobs
• Urban Interns
• The Wall Street Journal (free, multi-industry search)
• WorkInPR
• Webgrrls International search
   
• For Students:
• Read how NYWICI member Elizabeth Stoltz started a non-profit in high school.
• How to Make Over Your Resume (for students)
• Ensuring a winning internship (at any stage of your career!)
• quintcareers.com/grad_internships.html
• collegecentral.com/
• internjobs.com/
• internweb.com/
• internships.com/
• summerinternships.com/
• rsinternships.com/
• itraineeship.com/
• internabroad.com/search.cfm
• ihipo.com/
• groupereye.com/
• globalexperiences.com/

**  Links to external sites are offered as resources only, without endorsement. **