FAYI

Copywriter
Contract: We're looking for an experienced copywriter to work with a large
central government department on copywriting and managing production of
brochures and leaflets. The 40 brochures cover employment services and must
be successfully produced before the end of March 2006...


For more details, and to apply, visit:
http://www.onlinecontentuk.org/jobs.html




Please...
NO phone calls
NO agencies
NO non-UK-based applicants



Elizabeth Varley
Editorial Director
Online Content UK
jobs@onlinecontentuk.org
http://www.onlinecontentuk.org

Hi Beadle,

I started my career at the J.Walter Thompson Agency quite a few years ago. In those days there was never a shortage of copywriters.

Has the Industry changed so much? There has always been a need to use the services of freelance operators but never in the field of copywriting. Artists, Designers, Photographers, freelance or sub-contractors but not copywriters, for these represented the prime creative output and 'originality' that marked one Agency from another.

Len

I'm sure there is not a shortage of copywriters Len, but more of an issue of access to the best/rights ones.

Good copywriters tend to have their regular clients and I know that most of the work I get is from recommendation. But there will be instances when an organisation needs a writer – perhaps for the first time – and does not know where to look.

I think this is particularly true of the online world, where it seems to be (supposedly) more specialised and you have a lot of organisation starting or revamping websites for the first time and they need help.

This is where onlinecontentuk comes in, although I have never used them. It is also a Government job and my experience of Government is that they usually leave it to the last minute to find someone, so they are probably panicking right now!