Be Lifehacker's New Weekend Contributing Editor

Want to write for Lifehacker? We're on the hunt for a new contributing editor to manage our Saturday and Sunday tips and tricks. Interested? Here's what you need to know.

The weekend contributing editor should be able to work a full day on Saturday and Sunday, and should be self-sufficient, because you're going to be working by yourself a lot of the time. Also, these are important qualities to have:

• The ability to check into email and chat on the weekdays. Although we're not going to be asking you to write on the weekdays or be available all day, we will often assign you items, send you notes, and want to communicate a bit during the week.
• An excellent understanding of Lifehacker. You should be a reader, at least, but also know exactly what it is that makes us tick. It's kind of an intangible quality, knowing what kind of posts we write (and which ones we don't), but it's a vital one.
• Prior writing experience. You don't need to have years and years of experience, but the experience of having written professionally is a big plus.
• The ability to write quickly and coherently.
• Willingness to take direction.

Being a weekend Lifehacker contributor editor is actually a pretty decent start to being a full-time and salaried weekday Lifehacker writer. We've hired weekend people in the past, so keep that in mind as you're applying. And, even if you don't get the weekend job, applying can still give you the opportunity to fill in for writers when they go on vacation, or other small freelance opportunities at the site.

• Send all email applications to wannabeweekend@lifehacker.com with the subject Lifehacker Weekend Contributing Editor.
• Include prior writing experience and links to them.
• In the email, a few sentences about yourself. Good things to discuss are why you want to be a weekend writer, your interests and experience that fit with Lifehacker (programming/writing/hacking/DIY experience), and your availability (when you can start). Focus on the fact that being concise is much more effective, but write as much as you need to to tell us what experience you have and what special circumstances allow you to be a great Lifehacker weekend writer.
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We get a lot of emails, so unfortunately we can't reply to everyone. If we do contact you, it may not be immediately so please be patient. If you don't hear from us, feel free to give it another shot in the future.

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/dWBZ2jd16jw/be-lifehackers-new-weekend-contributing-editor

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