Below are 10 Winning Media Job Search Strategies to ease your path towards landing your ideal media job. By implementing all the correct background details for successful candidacy, you are well on your way to media job employment.

1. Preparation is of paramount importance when trying to find a media job. You need to know what it is you are looking for, what avenue of media jobs you wish you venture down and then make further decisions from there.

2. A full range of media jobs from journalist to publicist or copywriter, to copy editor to account executive are available. Which media job is right for you? Do some research into each job to see what they entail.

3. If you are unsure of where to turn with regards to finding a media job, perhaps you could seek the expertise of a recruitment agency.

4. Online media job searches are probably your best bet, with most media jobs moving to the online market these days.

5. Separate your search to the media jobs that you feel fit your profile best, and the ones that would be secondary. Focus on the ones suited to you first and then if no joy comes from them, move onto the secondary choices of media jobs.

6. Identify the employers for the media jobs you have chosen and do some background research into their business, so as to understand where they are coming from and what they would be looking for in a media job employee.

7. Look at the media jobs you have narrowed down and ask yourself the following questions: What skills are required for the media job I am applying for? Do I possess these skills, and if not can I learn them? Update your skills if necessary and make sure that you include this information in your resume to detail that you are equipped for the media job at hand.

8. Update your generic skills that are extremely useful in any job environment, as well as that of a media job. Some skills that will benefit you: Communication skills; Good time management skills; Team player; Organizational skills; using initiative

9. Update your resume with all this information, and start making your applications. When applying ensure that you come across as professional, polite, keen and interested as well as well educated about the media job in question.

10. If you get any call-backs for media jobs, take notes and write down names and numbers. Nothing is more indicative of disinterest than a person who cannot remember your name. Recording all the details will display that you are enthusiastic and willing to take on this media job, and will also instil a positive feeling about you in your future employers.

People are losing their media jobs, and loads of the employed are due to endure a cut a salary. But even with this distressing truth, there is hope and there are future opportunities for media job hopefuls entering into the 2009 job market. The Media Job Market says it best by stating that, “These newly unemployed, said recruiters, will need to adjust their expectations to new industry realities – especially those with traditional backgrounds.” According to the same article, online advertsiing media jobs are still very much stable due to money constantly flowing into that area. With the need for advertising your business being more prudent than ever, at least this is one media job that seems to remain untouched by the recession.

Media jobs are not what they used to be, and if traditional media personell and new media job seekers are not prepared for the upcoming and ever present changes, then the 2009 job market is not going to be a place where they find the media job they have their hearts set on. The media job market in it’s entirety is a competitive place to stake your claim, so you need to be properly equipped to be able to accept the challenge and deal with the competition. If you are not prepared to “fight” for your media job in the 2009 market, then the chances are that you wn’t be rewarded with one.

With the limited number of media jobs available, and the ever expanding number of media professionals looking for work, you will more than likely have a ratio of available media jobs to available media job applicants that is completely mismatched. Obviously with their being far too few media jobs for the amount of people needing work.

But in saying this, at least there is a media industry and there are media jobs. 2009 has seen the crushing of many industries because there is just not enough of an economy to sustain them. The automobile industries have stock sitting gathering dust and rust, crammed into storage yards that are miles in length and width. Lack of business equals cutting of jobs to keep businesses afloat during the tought times, so that they are at least able to recover when the economy does. Media jobs may not be what they used to be, but 2009 can still see them kicking and screaming and refusing to let go. Media jobs are still available and there is light being shed from the direction of online media jobs and careers.