My dream job in professional social media is a Content Strategist at BuzzFeed. This person is responsible for creating and executing content strategies across various social media platforms to engage and grow the company’s audience. To successfully land this job, a candidate should have

Search for and identify your dream job in professional social media. The job you pick must be a real job and a real company. The best way to know that a job is real is either 1. You can find a posting for the job on a company website, LinkedIn, online job board or other place where you might find actual job listings. Or 2. You can identify an actual person who has that job at that company, typically by finding their profile on LinkedIn, but possibly also by finding their employment details by other trustworthy sources. DISCLAIMER: Some students in this section of COMM323 have dream jobs in professions other than social media, and you should all keep your dreams alive. But please set those dreams aside for the purpose of this assignment, and focus on professions in social media.
In about 1-2 sentences, provide the specific job title and organization, and write a brief description of what the person in this job actually does. HINT: some students have previously responded to this prompt with a general description of the job, such as “social media manager at a company.” That is not enough information to fulfill this requirement. Name a specific position at a specific company.
In about 1-2 sentences, write a brief description of the experience or skills required to successfully land this job.
In about 1-2 sentences, write a brief account of why you find this job appealing, and how you think your skills and dispositions might make you a good candidate.
Concatenate the text of your dream job title and company and the other elements of this assignment, and paste the full paragraph of about 6-7 sentences into the General channel on Slack.