NICAR Unsession: "Jobs and Career Straight-Talk: For (and By) Young'uns"
Recent grads and current students who are attending NICAR next week:
Do you have questions on how to break into the field or get an paid internship/job? Simple or impolitic ones that you couldn't ask a boss or hiring manager/editor? Questions about newsroom "culture" or the tacit knowledge required to network or interview for a job?
Sisi Wei and I, both less than three years out of undergrad, are organizing an unsession ("Jobs and Career Straight-Talk: For (and By) Young'uns Only") to share implicit knowledge and job-seeking advice for students or early-career journalists interested in to becoming designer/developer/data journalists. We're aiming to keep the session informal and totally peer-to-peer, and to make this a safe space to ask silly questions, we're asking mid-career journalists and people with hiring power not to attend.
We'd love for employed less-recent-grads who want to share their wisdom to join us (if you're not a hiring manager).
Non-young'uns and young'uns-at-heart who are trying to enter the field laterally are welcome to join, but the unsession will be geared towards the experience of recent graduates (including generally-applicable job search and resume tips), so it may not be as helpful to you.
Hope to see you there! 12 noon on Saturday in the unconference room (open mic room?). And since we're millenials, all attendees will receive a trophy.
Jeremy and Sisi
@jeremybmerrill
@sisiwei