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[OnTheOtherSide]

Hello Amigos and Amigas.

My background is in Journalism and I have lots and lots of newspaper clips of work I have done. I am curious if you think I should include these with my resume? Do you think they would be impressive in the eyes of a potential employer? Or would they not really help me much in the long run?

I am thinking that they will show a certain level of proficiency with the English language because Journalism is so language oriented. Also they would add another element to my portfolio that would make it stand out mong others. But do you all think it would really do me any good to play this up a lot on my resume? I've had someone tell me that it would be a waste of time to include them basically, or maybe even be counter-productive if I put certain stories in there.

A lot of the news stories I wrote had a sort of edge to them. I am wondering if a Korean might look at, for example, my stories about a tattoo artist or a very graphic cartoon, and be offended or put off by them? Should I keep these out and just put in my soft stories about vegetable farms, boating competitions and things like that?

Thanks a lot people. You all are the coolest.

[agoodmouse]

For what it's worth, the Joongang Ilbo did a great piece about tattoo artists in Hongdae. The newspaper isn't edgy, per se, but it caters to English speaking foreigners. As far as cartoons, I don't think the JI is up that alley.

[agoodmouse]

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2880647

[PGF]

It won't help much if you are overseas. But, if you get here, work a year and then want to move into a better school or work as a journalist, they will certainly be helpful.

[OnTheOtherSide]

Thanks for the feedback. I think i'm just going to include some of my very G-rated stories, because after all i'm not applying for a newspaper job (thank God). It'll be more for the added novelty value for them to be hiring a professional journalist and make my resume stand out I guess.

I probobly shouldn't add the story about the huge marijuana legalization event....... That couldn't possibly score me any points.

[OnTheOtherSide]

[PGF]

[moosehead]

include your best stories of a non-controversial subject as part of your cv. you should have a section on your resume "writer" - then use the title, date and publication

you can also save the online website address, you should be saving these as offline pages (hopefully) for your own benefit

there are jobs in j here for foreigners but I've heard they are sh*t and don't pay either

a lot of schools want people to teach writing; there are a LOT of j's over here, myself included; indy, thank you very much. still do some while here.

[idonojacs]

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[OnTheOtherSide]