Looking For Political Freelance Writing Jobs: Recommendations For Beginners

When you are a new freelance writer, braking into the market can be tough. It helps if you know where to go or people who can help you. Freelancing is a great career, so you should not be discouraged at the difficulty of breaking into the career. Use these surefire tips as you seek political freelance writing jobs.

• Work on polishing a professional resume
• Set up a professional writer’s blog or website
• On the site include your fees, sample work, references, recommendations, and contact information
• Touch bases with the different political parties n your city, state, and country-they may need writers
• Then contact as many politicians as you possibly can-they, too, may need writers
• Next make a list of political magazines, journals, and websites-send out notes of query to all of them asking for work or employment
• Join several freelance work sites and begin to search for jobs
• Bid on any jobs you like at the sites
• Contact as many newspapers as you can-they all have political cartoons, and political editorials
• Contact college professors of political science and ask them to point you into a direction
• Get your name out in the field by working as many other freelance jobs as you possibly can
• Send submissions to political magazines-they will take them and their submission requirements will be listed somewhere at the front of the magazine
• Do small edits and changes to your jobs without argument and for free of charge
• Never write a test article for free-do not give away your work, you are worth something, and getting into the habit of doing free work is bad. You should also not let people change the rates to a lower price. This is your profession, treat it nicely.

When you first begin your career, you will need sample work (published or not published), recommendations, and references. You should be prepared to be paid at entry level at first. This will change quickly as you gather more credits. Always do your best work even if you are not interested in the topic. Conduct yourself in a professional manner. Your work should be well written and it should be free of errors. Never, ever miss your deadlines.

Feel free to use this handy guide as you seek to find political writing jobs. In fact, you can use these guide for all types of for pay writing job searches. Best of luck to you.