Content Research & Creation for Skills Website

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TYPE OF WORK

Full Time

SALARY

8,000 - 18,000/month based on experience

HOURS PER WEEK

TBD

DATE POSTED

Oct 23, 2013

JOB OVERVIEW

This is a position for an article researcher & writer. Our website is focused on helping young people in the US to gain skills using online resources, including Online Courses and Training, Ebooks, Tools and other websites. Our goal is to be the FIRST stop for people who are looking to learn jobs skills that can be learned online (primarily skills that can be done at a computer).

We have a focus on SEO, and high-quality writing. We are looking for writers that are very good at online research and have an excellent grasp of the english language. For this position, you will be expected to write between 4-6 articles each week, so you must be very comfortable sitting down to write.

We train all our writers, so you will spend quite a bit of time watching our instructional videos that will help you to learn what you need to in order to write for us.

Primary Tasks:
Heavy, in-depth research for each piece
Writing High Quality Blog Posts
Creating High Quality Headlines using SEO Terms
Entering posts into Wordpress
Taking Screenshots, optimizing for web

Secondary Tasks:
Transcribing Interviews
Posting to Craigslist
Researching potential Guest Post opportunities
Maintaining existing content by updating & improving older posts
Data entry

These are the types of articles you will be writing:
http://www.skilledup.com/learn/show-all
http://www.skilledup.com/learn/business-entreprenuership/shes-got-skills-kim-kardashian/
http://www.skilledup.com/articles/seo-certification-roundup/
http://www.skilledup.com/learn/business-entreprenuership/veteran-traits-that-are-highly-valued-in-the-workplace/

Please have the following traits to apply:
EXCELLENT grasp of the English language
Experience writing authoritative content

To Apply:
Please send 2-3 recent writing samples that are well-researched, between 500-1000 words. Ideally in a topic related to helping someone solve a specific problem. Better if these links are already published on the web

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