Editorial Policy | Writer's Guidelines | Style Guide | Privacy Statement
Thanks for your interest in writing for AlbertaJobcentre.ca. We welcome queries, but, before you contact us, please take a few moments to review this document. It answers many basic questions about AlbertaJobcentre.ca and the articles we accept.
Background
Founded in February 2001, AlbertaJobcentre.ca is British Columbia's leading online career site. Our mission is to connect jobseekers and employers in British Columbia, while providing the career planning resources and recruitment tools needed for the continued success of BC's labour market.
AlbertaJobcentre.ca aims to bring jobseekers and recruiters accurate, timely information about the world of work. Our goal is to make AlbertaJobcentre.ca a practical, reliable source for job search, recruiting and human resources information. The information we provide includes, but is not limited to, news, feature articles, guides, reports and tools.
We provide content that:
- meets the needs of our current and potential website visitors
- is informative, easy to understand, and educational
- is accurate, credible and timely
- supports the causes and issues important to the industries we cover
Readership
Our readers are people interested in jobs and recruitment in British Columbia. Our primary readers are people seeking jobs in British Columbia, but other readers include recruiters and human resources specialists.
Our Stories
We favour 250- to 350-word stories with long shelf lives. Our stories have subjects that will still seem fresh to new readers six months to a year from now. Key topics include resumes, resume dilemmas, interviews, networking, and job seeking. We aim to meet our readers "where they're at" - so stories that deal with the basic nuts and bolts of job seeking are just as welcome as those that deal with more sophisticated career issues.
Pitching Stories to AlbertaJobcentre.ca
- Before you pitch, take a look of some of our existing articles. Get a feel for our site and the stories we tell.
- Read our Editorial Policy and Style Guide. Writers should strive to submit articles that meet AlbertaJobcentre.ca's Editorial Policy and Style Guide.
- Email editorial queries to info@albertajobcentre.ca with the word "query" in the subject line. We do not accept spoken or telephone queries.
- Outline your story idea, approach, main points, arguments and proposed interviews.
- Provide a two- to three-line biographical summary for yourself.
- If you haven't written for AlbertaJobcentre.ca before, send us some website links or text-based writing samples as part of your email message.
- We do not accept unsolicited email attachments. Do not send us email attachments unless we have specifically asked you to do so. We will only review website links and text-based messages - we try to mitigate our security risks.
- We do not accept unsolicited articles.
- We do not accept simultaneous submissions.
- We aim to reply to queries within four weeks. However, given the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot guarantee a response. If you have not heard back from us within four weeks, please accept our thanks and feel free to contact other publications.
Payment
AlbertaJobcentre.ca does not pay for content. However, we do accept content from qualified industry experts and career development professionals. All content is subject to fact-checking and editing. We ask our contributors to strive for informative, non-promotional pieces and we clearly identify writers.
Submitting Your Article
If we have approved your query and given you the go-ahead to write an article for us:
- When you submit your article, state that you have read our Writers' Guidelines, Editorial Policy and Style Guide.
- When you submit your article, state that your article is original. We do not accept spoken or telephone queries.
- Provide your article in Microsoft Word format.
- Follow the directions you received when your query was approved.