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VIDEO | First fortnight at my first journalism job
If I’ve been a little absent from Hacks of late, it’s because I’ve been juggling the last term of my MA with starting my first proper full-time, paid journalism job. Crazy stuff. Here’s a little video update on where I’m
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Journalism: Basically the worst thing, ever
April seems to have been the month of doom and gloom for the journo-type. I can’t speak for the UK, but here in the US there seems to have been a never ending stream of surveys and studies that show
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Hannah’s work placement report
It’s the Easter holidays which means more work placements for City magazine students! This fortnight I’m at Bauer’s parenting publications, Pregnancy & Birth and Mother & Baby. I made a little video to let you know what I’ve been up
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CV Workshop
The Hacks CV clinic is back! This time, the CV of student journalist Kieran Corcoran, editor of the Cambridge Tab, is being put under the microscope. It’s been brutally condensed to one page, and is packed full of good experience. That
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VIDEO: 3 questions I was asked at my first job interview
Yesterday I went for my first ever interview for a real journalism job! Up until yesterday I had no idea what kind of questions I might be asked in an interview for a magazine so I shot this video pretty
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My online journalist CV
I’m forever trying to get people to give me their CVs to put up on the Wannabe Hacks site, and thought it was high time I submitted my own for a crushing and critical analysis, especially seeing as Hannah has already
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How to get your covering letter noticed…for the right reasons.
So we’ve had plenty of advice on how to write the perfect CV here at Wannabe Hacks, but what about the other daunting task of writing a covering letter? Perhaps just as important as a C.V, it is what completes
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What can wannabe hacks teach employers?
A few weeks ago I went to see my tutor for a bit of a catch up on my major project. As always, as well as discussing my project, we got on to talking about lots of other things. One
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Online CV Workshop: a wannabe magazine journalist’s CV
This time The Postgrad is putting her CV under the Wannabe Hacks microscope and asking for YOUR help. I’m about to start applying for an Easter work placement so I’m in the process of re-doing my CV for the gazillionth
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