So you dig communities and think you’d make a decent Community Manager. There’s just one problem, you’re not sure where to find the gigs. Community Manager jobs aren’t plentiful at the moment, but there are several places to subscribe to or bookmark to land these types of jobs.
Check it out:
- Social Networking Jobs – A job board listing various social networking gigs, including community management.
- Community Guy – Jake McKee’s community building blog also rocks a job board.
- Craigslist - No, really. I landed on my community management job by accident. I was looking for leads for my Freelance Writing Jobs blog and saw the full time community gig nestled in among the blogging gigs.
- The Net-Savvy Executive – Has a social media job board.
- ProBlogger- Darren Rowse has the occasional community management gig listed at the ProBlogger job board.
- Online job boards – Online job boards such as Monster, Hot Jobs and Career Builder list the occasional community manager gig here and there.
- Google Alerts – Set up a Google Alert for “Community Manager” to receive updates in the mailbox every time the Google spiders pick up a community manager jobs listing.
- Social networks – Many community manager gigs aren’t advertised. Instead, The Powers That Be put out word on various social networks. Do a search and see what you come up with
- Websites – Many of your favorite websites and social networks hire community managers but they don’t announce it in big flashing letters. Instead they quietly post it to their websites under the “Jobs” or “Work for Us” sections. Do a regular patrol of your favorite communities, as you never know when one of the jobs will turn up.
- You! - That’s right. You. Do you know of a community in need of management? Contact them regardless of whether or not they placed an ad and convince them of why they can benefit from your services.
