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 34th 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. **

