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Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Social Media Director?

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Are you a laid-off lawyer who has been spending way too much time on Facebook? Here’s a way to turn that “résumé gap” into job experience:

Director of Social Media
Medium-sized Atlanta law firm seeks candidates interested in a part-time or full-time social media position. The primary responsibility of the Social Media Director will be to actively promote our growing law firm using a variety of social media such as Twitter, Facebook and our existing web-site. Projects include: managing the firm’s Twitter, Facebook and web-site account, research current and relevant legal stories in the news and republish to social networks and firm web-site on a daily basis, communicate through social web-sites about all specific practice groups and their developments, update marketing team on a weekly basis with web-site content.

Managing a professional presence on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites felt like a full-time job to me. But I didn’t know you could draw a salary for it.
So what are the qualifications for this position — and, more importantly, the salary?


The qualifications for this exciting new position could be fulfilled by almost anybody under the age of 30:

Qualifications:
Must have general knowledge of managing Twitter, Facebook and the internet
Effective written and verbal skills
Action-oriented and drive for results
Must be able to work independently with little management
Knowledge of current events in general practice groups in the legal world
Must have a college degree and an interest in current events.

And the firm will pay you $35K per annum for the work. That’s not a lot of money (though I imagine $35K goes a lot further in Atlanta than it does in a NYC or L.A.), but remember that the “job” involves sitting around making 140 character updates. There are staffers at major newspapers that don’t pull in $35,000 a year.
Whoever says we’re in a jobless recovery obviously isn’t paying attention to the plethora of opportunities now available.
Director of Social Media [craigslist]

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