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Find Your Perfect Writing Job With Mix and Match Search Terms
A Word-Math formula your job search
Freelance writers have to search for work continually. (It’s the only thing about living the writer’s life that I don’t like.) But because I spend time every day on job boards, I’ve become an expert on the words used by employers looking to hire writers.
Those job-search terms are not as straight-forward as you’d think.
If you’re old enough to remember doing research before computers made the process instantaneous, you might remember that you had to dig through card catalogues and try dozens of different search phrases to yield results in the periodical guides. And if you’re young enough NOT to remember what research was like before computers, trust me. Finding information wasn’t an easy process.
Searching for gigs on online job boards isn’t easy either. You have to enter multiple terms and try different word combinations.
Mix and match three terms for search success:
Type of writer + level of responsibility + location
