Catching Entry-Level Writing Gigs

As all us writers engage in our necessary research first, I suggest looking at the US Department of Labor and its section on writers and editors. This site provides information on the nature of the work, job outlook, training and qualifications necessary, earnings and much more useful information for the budding entry-level writer. I definitely bookmarked that one!
Now that you are even more convinced that you want to become a writer check out career builder.com and put “entry-level writing jobs” and the search term and a bunch of jobs should jump out at you. I did the very same thing, today actually, and was pleasantly surprised to see a really diverse mix of entry-level writing jobs that are currently available out there!! Writing is just SO interesting and coveted, and it is easy to dabble in a variety of domains writing about a variety of topics. As someone who gets bored easily, this is incredibly appealing, and so got bookmarked too!! (I promise, I’ll leave some jobs out there for the rest of you).
What else did I find…okay, I found a website called sologig.com for all the freelancers out there. You create your “freelance profile” consisting of your contact information and your job category (for our purposes that would be “writing/editing/translating”) and theoretically the employers find you. I’m not sure how many entry-level writing jobs there are through this site, so do some more researching into it. This site also features helpful hints and articles and current “gigs” to look into.
Another two ideas I’ll mention are Craig’s list (always a good tool to remember) and search sites sponsored by universities, if you can find them. Doing my own quick preliminary search I found one such search site on the UC Berkeley graduate school of journalism site. It lists some pretty interesting entry-level writing jobs! Just be sure to pay attention to the deadlines listed and the people to contact. Now, go get ‘em you writer you!!!
Resources:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos089.htm#top (Department of Labor)
http://jobs.aol.com/?sem=1&ncid=AOLCAR00170000000004 (careerbuilder)
http://www.sologig.com/?source=google&gclid=CJL2jpOS9oYCFSwaFQodGF23fw (Freelancers)
http://www.craigslist.org
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs/listings.php?view=job (UC Berkeley)