Columnist and sports writer -- Winston-Salem (NC) Journal

The sports writer position is to replace Bill Cole, the Journal's college basketball and recruiting writer, who retired several months ago ... the position is being revamped to be more of a preps guy, allowing Mason to branch out and do more GA work ...

 

I see. I had forgotten about Bill Cole retiring. The revamping of the position makes sense.

 

C'mon, mate. Not rocket science. Write/call/email, tell 'em that you are interested and will pay your own way for an interview if necessary (been there, done that). If you're the guy and willing to move, it won't matter if you're out of state.

 

Any word on how this one is going?

 

Don't pay your way for an interview in-state or out-of-state. If they're too damn cheap to do that, you can rest assured you will take it up the ass financially the whole time you are there. If you're not worth a couple extra bucks to yourself to pay for the interview, they sure as hell won't spend them on you. No job is worth that.

 

Any update on this one? I haven't gotten a rejection letter -- yet.

 

Talked to some people there a couple weeks ago, and they had just started going through all the resumes ... this one may take a while, but should be filled before the start of football (high school and college) season ...

 

Scott Hamilton got the columnist gig. He was hired in January as a GA reporter in news and will make the switch in June. He used to write for Golf Digest and Wilmington Daily Star.

Sports writer position still not filled.

 

Is the sports writer position an immediate fill or over the summer?

 

I've seen a lot of places wait till August to make a hire in order to save some coin. Kinda sucks for the newbie to have to get relocated and hit the ground running pretty fast, but that isn't out of the ordinary.

 

Doc,

I hear what you are saying. But sometimes if you want to make an impression and stand out from the crowd, you need to be willing to go the extra mile.

Ask yourself "how badly do I want this job"? Do you really think you're that much better than the other 399 applicants that the employer is going to bend over backwards to get you?

Of course someone geographically closer has an advantage and if you really think you want the job, you may have to try to level the playing field. Of course, if you really don't care all that much, why bother? You can just keep sending out another stack of resumes on Monday.

 

Good job missing his point, Mark.