I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any #socialmedia app.

If one, just one applicant, mentioned their open source or #selfhosting skills, that would be a ticket to an immediate interview.

As many people are asking, this is the job - it's not #tech focused, but journalism focused - https://nithincoca.com/journalism-publicist.html
Hiring: Part-Time Journalism Assistant

jm a freelance journalist, who has covered East and Southeast Asia for more than a decade, for outlets including Vox,…

Nithin Coca, Global Journalist

Other things not to do

- End your cover letter with a "message me on/here's my #Whatsapp"
- Spell my name wrong (something that only applicants from North #India seem to do, amazingly enough.)

Woke up to 40+ applications, which I guess says something about the journalism market these days...

@ncoca

Every interview I've been in where a candidate mentions their work related home hobbies makes the interview very enjoyable and us always leading to that question, "when can you start?" That kind of energy is what we can use.

Without that, interviews can be a struggle, "can this work out?"

@ncoca
You have my full attention.

What's the job?

@ncoca wowie and I'm looking for a job! I do quite a bit of open source stuff, mainly my own projects for fedi, but you should look at my github and see for yourself :3

https://github.com/micr0-dev
https://micr0.dev

Although it occurs to me that there is a good chance that this position is not online at all, but in that case oh well and I hope you find someone proper and cool locally!!

@ncoca hi Nithin, I'm looking for a job. I do a lot of self-hosting as a hobby (I currently run some 30 services at home). I saw your work as a journalist. What kind of job profile are you looking at? Is it remote?
@ncoca Wait, should I then apply using my blog