. Just got a call from another company whose job posting I responded to last week.
It's a FULL-TIME SALARIED WITH BENEFITS job as a web copywriter with an Internet marketing company.
It may not be a perfect fit, but I'm pretty sure I'm at least a 75% fit. They want someone with diverse writing experience doing web content, press releases, blog posts and articles. That's definitely me, and just like what i did at my last f/t job at a personal finance consumer website.
They also want someone who knows both AP and Chicago style. I know AP.
They want someone who knows basic HTML for linking and keyword research and writing SEO copy. I can do this, although I guess we were spoiled at my last job becus there was a dedicated person who did all the keyword research for us writers.
But they also want someone with knowledge of Hoot Suite, Facebook, Twitter etc. Although I have accounts with Facebook and Twitter, I don't at all feel fluent in them and rarely use them.
So the interview's set up with 2 people for Friday afternoon. It's about a 50-minute drive. Of course, it would be far preferable to the publishing job.
And as I feel like the imminent end of unemployment benefits is looming overhead, along with an expected big jump in the cost of my COBRA in June, the timing, if I got the job, could not be more perfect.
I got another job interview
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As far as I can tell, the big differences between AP & Chicago are that Chicago uses the serial ("Oxford") comma, lowercases all prepositions in headline copy (even ones longer than 3 letters), and italicizes book titles. I haven't edited to Chicago very often, but I've never gotten complaints. If you know AP, you can pick up Chicago very quickly.
Good luck!!
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