Write for JoBlo.com?

HELP WANTED: WE WANT YOU!

Do you love horror
movies and
ARROW IN THE HEAD? Do you want to contribute to its growth? Do you
have time to spare? Do you love dishing the scoops, researching news
stories, scouring the Net for all things horror-related and writing
about the latest and greatest to come? If so, you may just be the
ideal candidate to help fortify the AITH HORROR NEWS
SECTION so take a look at the requirements below and see if you’re
ready, able and wanting to join the JoBlo.com/Arrow in the Head
team.

Position:
Horror News Editor

What it is exactly?
You would be in charge of finding, writing and putting together
horror news stories every day of the week– pictures and all
(basically, the same thing that our current news editors are doing
for AITH). The person
we hire for this gig would be asked to scour the Net for scoops and news, put
them together in an entertaining and informative manner (natch) and
provide for at least 3 stories a day. You must be available
to post stories from Midnight to 6AM East Coast time and on
all of the odd stories that pop up over the Weekends.”
 

Do I need to be
living in a certain area to get this job? Not at all. This job
is open to anyone from any country, any city, any street, any gas
station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and
doghouse… 😉 As long as you’ve got a solid connection to the
Internet, email and can surf…you are a likely candidate.

How much does this
job pay? Believe it or not,
the gig actually pays some money! I say this because up until
a while ago, we couldn‘t afford to pay anyone squat, but a
quarterly "bonus" is now in the cards. Nothing that would
make you quit your day job, of course, but some cool drinking
allowance money. Oh, and you’ll
also get to display your writing skills to the world (close to
100,000 unique visitors/day), slap the gig on to your CV/resume,
receive an extra cool new email address which ends in @joblo.com
and plenty of groovy real-life Internet company work experience
(read: handjobs).

What
is required of this post?

• You must be
  available to post stories from Midnight to 6AM Eastern
  Coast time and on Weekends which is the shift we need
  somebody for.

• You must be serious
  about your application, the vacant position and be, at least, 21
  years old.

• You must be an
  excellent writer, bar-none. If you send us an email with
  spelling and grammatical errors, it will not be considered. Our
  kind of humor helps as well, but professionalism is most
  important.

• You must LOVE, and I
  stress this word again….LOVE horror movies! (and
  appreciate the Arrow in the Head and JoBlo’s “style”)

• You must have basic
  .html skills since they are required to enter the stories into
  our system. No elaborate skills, just the basics. Experience
  with graphic programs such as Photoshop, etc… is also
  appreciated.

• You must be
  able to commit to this job for at least a period of 6-12 months
  and MUST be available to cover your part of the gig from Midnight to
  6AM (very important).

• An added bonus
  (but not required) would be anyone who already has an
  established set of “spies” or contacts in the industry
  and can provide our site with more exclusive content

How
do I apply?

Send us an email
at [email protected]
titled HORROR NEWS EDITOR (The
Arrow and JoBlo will be going through all of the applications together)
and include in it:

1) WHY you think
you would be ideally suited for this post (you gotta really sell us
with shit to back it up as as well!) Try to concentrate on
the above requirements.

2) Also, include your
full name, age, resume (if you’ve got one), geographical location,
status (are you single, married, have kids) as
well as a few writing samples, preferably short news stories in the
same vein as the rest of the articles on AITH.

3) Furthermore, if
you’ve already worked on any other website, please provide us with
the required URLs so that we could check those out as well.

Email
us at:
[email protected]