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Since becoming the Detroit Free Press' recruiter in 1990, my work and the journalism industry have changed in unexpected ways. The transformation is rapid. One benefit is that I now learn from and help other Gannett recruiters. NewsRecruiter.com is a hub site that helps keep everything organized. It tells you what I am up to, it links to my latest work and it is a test site for new projects. My best ideas have always come from you, so please write.
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• Mondays: Cuppa Joe  • Tuesdays: News Job Café • Wednesdays: J-Schools • Thursdays: Job Hacks • Fridays: Apply With Care This is a test |
Hire for Talent In a story about hiring for the soon-to-be-reopened Westin Book Cadillac Detroit hotel, there is a one sentence quote that sums up the most important lesson you could learn in an MBA course on personnel selection. Human Resources Director Diane Tursntall says, "We're training for skills and hiring for attitude." Beautiful. Some of my hiring mistakes have come when I forget that distinction. You can teach in knowledge and skills, but you can't change a person's attitude, character or talents with any amount of training. I wasted many hours -- mine and the employee's -- by trying to teach in things I should have hired for. They had many good qualities, but lacked an essential one or two. I couldn't correct that and it was probably unfair to try. Add comment (0) |
 The Best of Ask the Recruiter: Thousands of journalists Poynter Online looking for answers to career questions. How do you get ahead? What should you ask in an interview? Or insist on in a salary negotiation? What is the future for news media? The best have gone into this book. Each chapter contains an essay by a guest recruiter or journalist with experience in newspapers, TV, radio, online or academia. So, through the questions of your inquisitive peers, get a recruiter's eye view of managing your career. >Buy it
 Breaking In is the insider's guide to landing — and acing — your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty news recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed to the book. >Buy it
 Bringing the News Century-old postcards celebrate newsies in photographs and artwork, in groups or singly, black and white or color. The newsboys -- and girls, as well as a few adults -- are always portrayed in hard-knock ways. Feet and calves are sometimes bare. Patches cling to elbows and knees. They cover their heads with stocking caps or the floppy hats we still know as "newsboys." If there is inside you a scrappy, survive-by-your-wits newsie, you'll enjoy this collection of cards and carriers bringing news in old-fashioned ways. (Twenty-five images.) >Buy it
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