Yahoo! and Gannett are hiring! Join them and recruiters from other top media companies and universities at the ONA09 Career Summit & Job Fair, Thursday, Oct 1, at the Hilton San Francisco to hear about job advice and actual openings.Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Media, and Yahoo! Talent Acquisition all will be on site to recruit talent for positions in Sunnyvale and Santa Monica, Calif., and Washington, D.C., including:
- Yahoo! News: a Chief Editor to drive a new analysis/politics section, a Managing Editor for multimedia and a Social Media Editor to track trends in Twitter and Facebook,
- Yahoo!: Senior Programmers, generalists as well as people with Personal Finance, Tech and Entertainment expertise, a Senior Producer for partner portals, and Search Trend editors to surface popular searches on the front page.
- And many, many more.
At the USA TODAY booth, visit with Standards and Recruitment Editor Brent Jones to find out more about openings, such as a Senior Web Designer/User Experience Architect who will be part of the Innovation team that is building some of the most high-profile and cutting-edge products in the company.
Recruiters will meet for pre-arranged and drop-in interviews with job-seekers, who will also benefit from resume critiques and work evaluation with multimedia/online journalist Mark Luckie of 10,000Words.net.
The Career Summit & Job Fair schedule — $25 for ONA members, $50 for non-members — offers a full day’s immersion into learning, networking and job-hunting, as well as an opportunity to meet one-on-one with digital media recruiters. It is also the unofficial kick-off to ONA’s 2009 Annual Conference, which follows over the next two days.
The day starts with a Career Summit focusing on career reinvention, featuring:
- Krista Canfield, Career Expert, LinkedIn
- Chris Gaither, Google Global Communications and Public Affairs
- Neil Chase, Vice President of Author Services, Federated Media
- Susan Mernit, Knight Challenge Fund winner
- Bruce Koon, News Director, KQED-FM, Public Media for Northern California
- Kim Moy, Director, Front Page Editorial Programming at Yahoo!
- Dean Takahashi, lead writer, VentureBeat
- Mara Covell, Executive Recruiter and Managing Director, Howard-Sloan-Koller
To register for the Career Summit & Job Fair, visit ONAConference.org/register.
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