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Monster.com seeks associate web editor

Monster – the global leader in connecting people to jobs – is looking for an innovative digital writer/editor to help shape our coverage of topics that matter to job seekers. The ideal candidate will have experience creating high-quality, actionable content for a major media outlet.

On a day-to-day basis, you’ll stay on top of the issues and trends that are key to America’s workforce – from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report to emerging resume formats to the latest offerings in office cafeterias – and help decide how to translate these topics for Monster’s audiences.

You’ll be expected to produce daily articles – how-to content, news, UGC and social media-driven. You should be comfortable reporting from a journalistic approach, but also to aggregate responsibly from around the web and from our own site.

You’ll be expected to think beyond the vanilla article to video, infographics, quizzes, GIFs, podcasts and more. You’ll be primarily a writer, but up to 30 percent of your workload could include editing the work of outside writers.

You’ll also have a key role in the bigger picture: As we redefine our content strategy, editorial voice, and UI to maximize audience engagement, traffic, branding, and revenue, you’ll be asked to think creatively about new ways to engage our audience, both as a whole and key segments.

Plus, you’ll also be tasked with thinking about what people and assets inside and outside the company can be leveraged to best achieve our corporate goal—which is to help people “find better.”

Essential Functions:

  • Stay on top of relevant news to ensure full coverage of our core subject areas
  • Ideate, assign, write, edit, and publish long- and short-form articles, galleries, quizzes, lists, and videos that are consistent with the Monster brand and that deliver value and utility
  • Develop and manage data-driven content projects
  • Write “clicky” headlines and smart metadata for SEO
  • Serve as a brand ambassador through Twitter and other social media
  • Monitor audience behaviors via analytics tools, and respond by optimizing UI and content in cooperation with internal/external teams
  • Help plan and produce content for an editorial calendar
  • Stay up to date with best practices in SEO, content marketing, digital journalism, social media, web usability, web design, and business/industry trends

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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