What gets the job, period.

On that sentence alone, you wouldn't get most jobs. I hope you spell-check your resumes better than you spell-check your posts.

 

Not sure I can answer how to get the job before you leave the office but a ranking of what helps you get a job in sports.

1. Who you know (A person on staff or someone the editor respects putting in a good word can put you at the top of the pile. It often can overcome resume/clips that don't stand out. One reason? A handful of dynamite clips written by someone you don't know could be the product of great editing or a writer who can turn it on at times but is a pain in the butt otherwise).
2. Good clips (Solid writing can/should often get you an interview).
3. How you present yourself. (Smart go-getters get the nod).
4. Intangibles, race/gender/experience/pay/moving expense, etc.

 

Yeah, that moving expense is an automatic eliminator these days. No Arizonans will get consideration in say, PA. Actually, no Illini would get consideration in PA, Kansans in Oklahoma, etc., with TPTB who think that there's a good journalist right around every corner.

 

Not sure if you are serioous or not, but it depends on the job. Sure, a major daily is not going to worry about moving in a columnist or beat writer. But they damn sure ain't going to pay to move in an agate editor.

Other papers may hire you from wherever but you move at your own expense.

 

so that's the best kick to the balls you have yawn? ... fucking rookie.

 

Offering to work for free helps.

 

Actually, another like it. Try starting your sentences with capital letters.

Talk about rookie. And you found this board? I suppose so, with wishful thinking.

 

And on that point, refer to the other thread you are acting childish on.

 

According to the thread about the opening in Champaign, Mon Stertitz, their new Illini beat writer could tell you about another quality that ensures a hire. Mon Stertitz know how to stick out during the interview and really be noticed.

 

so it takes you two posts to basically make one point? you'll go far in this business, you really will ... just keep telling yourself that, really.

 

Not to take sides in this argument, but why did you end your sentence in a preposition, Yawn?