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JOB OFFER - Freelance Reporter Wanted!

Here’s a job offer for a freelance writer. Read the requirements and specifications below:

Freelance Reporter
We have several part-time freelance reporter positions available that can be performed from your home office. We are seeking honest, detail oriented, self-motivated freelance reporter personnel with a desire to work from home. The preferred candidate should have at least 2 years of factual reporting experience with Internet access and knowledge. We will provide all the required system training to get you up and running with us quickly. No special software or hardware required.

We require candidates with some background in news reporting; familiar with the construction industry and construction project approval fundamentals and procedures. Your reporting would involve the use of the internet, email communication, phone follow-up and some out bound research calls. The right candidate can advance within the organization.

You will be working for an informational resources company providing time sensitive information to the construction industry through an on-line database. We are currently in the process of expanding our services throughout the east coast and looking for qualified individuals to handle specific territories.

If accepted as a reporter, you would be assigned a territory for coverage and responsible for researching and collecting planning board application information from local city and town building and planning board offices; researching and reporting on pertinent project and construction news and then input the data into our on-line database. Your compensation for this work will be for each completed project entry including follow-up.

You will need a computer with internet access. You can check out our website for additional information by visiting: www.theleadsreport.com

To be considered, please provide your resume within the body of your email response to us.

email: greg@theleadsreport.com

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One Response to “JOB OFFER - Freelance Reporter Wanted!”

  1. Comment by Nicholas Sxtus Kaponda on December 2nd, 2008 7:21 pm

    Attention Greg,
    I am interested in this Freelance reporter job.

    I have respect for your sight after someone introduced me to it. I believe it will help me in my freelance writing career.

    I have posted my CV for this job especially but I will aslo post it at greg@theleadsreport.com

    Nicholas

    Here is my CV

    Nicholas Kaponda - Curriculum Vitae

    Personal profile
    · Experienced and innovative journalist with sophisticated sales, customer service and business administration skills. · Able to listen and understand information and ideas presented through spoken and written words and sentences.· Able to communicate information and ideas to others through spoken and written words and sentences.· Able to see details at close range and combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusion even among seemingly unrelated facts and events· Able to tell when something is wrong or about to go wrong and arrange things or actions in a certain pertain according to a specific rule or set standards.· High personal integrity, and able to relate to and create trust in other people. · Dependable and reliable in supporting and enabling team effort to produce genuine long-term sustainable development. · Persistent and flexible approach to the mutually beneficial achievement of business plans and personal goals of staff, suppliers and customers.
    Experience
    · Over 8 years proven expertise in photographing, video shooting, researching, information gathering, conducting interviews, article writing, sub-editing, page layout designing, media monitoring and; sales promotion. · Background in a wide range of socio-economic research. · Over eight years of proven expertise in using computers and computer systems to program, write software, set-up functions, enter data or process information. · Over 5 years of psychosocial counselling, sermon/speech writing, events organising and, program monitoring and evaluation.
    Achievements
    · District Media Focal person for the Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace (CCJDP) and Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflections (JCTR)’s Basic Needs Basket (BNB). · Life Member of Purpose Club· Member of Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Zambia
    Career history
    · 1999-2001; - Early career development with Zambia Daily Mail, Business Reporter. · 2001-2003; - Graffiti Film School, Public Relations. · 2003-2004; - Divine Grace Bible Church, Benoni-RSA, Associate Pastor.· 2005-2006, - Times of Zambia, Business Reporter· 2005-todate, - Divine Grace Bible Church-Zambia, Senior Pastor· 2006- Mining Mirror, Chief Reporter· 2007 to date, -Academic Connection, Director
    Personal details
    Nicholas KapondaP. O. Box 70718Ndola - ZambiaCentral Southern AfricaE-Mail: brothernicol@yahoo.comTel: 026-0955-545,948Born: 24.10.1976 Educated: Mipundu Primary School 1985-91, Luanshya Boys High School 1992-97 and; Norma-Jean College of Broadcasting and Communications –1999References are available on request.December 2008

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