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AusGamers Looking for a New Junior Editor
Post by trog @ 03:30pm 09/12/11 | 37 Comments
AusGamers is seeking a new member for our editorial team to help us out with our day-to-day operations in our Brisbane office.

This is an part-time/casual entry-level position that is suitable for someone with flexible hours (like a student), or someone keenly interested in working in the world of games journalism.

You will be working as part of a small team on one of Australia's biggest gaming sites, supporting our other editorial staff in the creation and management of our content services.

While the job is primarily non-technical in nature, we are after someone that has an excellent working knowledge of PCs, particularly as it relates to anything to do with video gaming.

Responsibilities will include:
  • Researching and writing news posts
  • Monitoring various channels and news services for new and interesting news
  • Data entry into various databases
  • Maintaining our files database and mirroring files
  • Transcoding and publishing videos
  • Managing game databases and assets
  • Liaising with game developers and publishers to obtain new content
  • Liaising with PR agencies
  • Occasionally having to play new or upcoming games and write about them
  • Performing some work outside of business hours, primarily Saturday mornings.

The successful applicant will possess the following qualities:

  • Incredibly excellent written communication skills. Seriously, if you apply for this via email and make a spelling mistake in your application letter, forget it. People do this.
  • Keen interest in video gaming across both console and PC.
  • Excellent working knowledge of the Internet and related applications, in particular web browsing
  • Familiarity with social networking and related concepts.
  • Ability to work as an important part in a small team, often under tight deadlines.
  • Willingness to take the initiative and work autonomously.
  • Good working knowledge of Windows (command line knowledge advantageous)
  • Some experience with Linux via ssh (knowing how to navigate directories and use tools like wget would be fine)
  • Basic knowledge of software licensing (differences between open source, freeware, Creative Commons, etc).
  • Basic understanding of HTML advantageous
  • Ability to occasionally work from home advantageous.
If you have any questions please feel free to post them in the comments!.

Interested applicants should send through their C.V. to us directly at jobs1112@ausgamers.com!


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Ryan
Posted 03:39pm 09/12/11
If only I lived in brisbane...
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Raven
Posted 03:40pm 09/12/11
Is this an on-site position, or one that's possible to be filled by a remote applicant?
I know just the person that would be suitable for this...
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FraktuRe
Posted 03:44pm 09/12/11
I will definitely be applying for this, right up my alley.


If you hire me trog, I will buy you a new bandanna.
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Ryan
Posted 03:52pm 09/12/11
@Raven, I believe it's an office job, read the first paragraph.
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trog
Posted 03:57pm 09/12/11
Is this an on-site position, or one that's possible to be filled by a remote applicant?
At the moment we are looking for someone in Brisbane that can work in the office. If you hit every single thing on that list though, I'd be interested in hearing from you.
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Morbz
Posted 04:11pm 09/12/11
Hmm im not junior ! But all the ticks in the boxes apart from age :(

So i guess not hehe
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Raven
Posted 04:16pm 09/12/11
Ryan, it says it's helping the Brisbane office - you never know :)

last edited by Raven at 16:16:07 09/Dec/11
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Dan
Posted 04:17pm 09/12/11
Age isn't really a factor. Junior is only in reference to it being an entry-level position.
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d^
Posted 04:22pm 09/12/11
Ah wish I was in Brisbane right now, this would be a sweet gig.
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copuis
Posted 04:27pm 09/12/11
I wish i had writing skills, spelling skills, basic html then I might be able to think about it
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Scooter
Posted 04:27pm 09/12/11
Junior is usually a reference to pay level rather than age :p
Sent this on to my cousin, might be something he's interested in.
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E.T.
Posted 04:32pm 09/12/11
I'd love to work with you guys Trog, but I want Terms role :)
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Nathan
Posted 04:33pm 09/12/11
ET, the position of camper is taken
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E.T.
Posted 04:48pm 09/12/11
ET, the position of camper is taken


But Jim's in Ireland now, lol.
Just kidding Jim ;)
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Vaene
Posted 05:01pm 09/12/11
Bugger that I just moved from the Gold Coast down to Wagga Wagga; could have done with this opportunity a couple of months ago.
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Ivonin
Posted 05:10pm 09/12/11
I applied for the last one when I hated my job. Job now pays triple what I was earning back then and I still really really really want to apply for this one.
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Eorl
Posted 08:06pm 09/12/11
Heh, I live right around the corner from you guys, but sadly I only tick the first few boxes. Keen to be an editor, but guess not that in depth with those programming style skills.

Well, I'm re-making my resume, might as well try. I am doing a games degree after all.
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Nerfy
Posted 07:47pm 09/12/11
Hrm, I can tick all of the boxes, except for liaising in a professional manner, and living in Brisbane... Well, if you ever want to remotely outsource some of it part-time, I've been recently upset that my ssh skills are fading away...

edit: Truth be told I don't know that much about the Internet or the web, I've oversold myself.
edit2: Well, I passed this and others, maybe I'm actually an undiscovered genius.
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DeadlyDav0
Posted 07:46pm 09/12/11
Keen interest in video gaming across both console and PC.

NEVER!
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slamma
Posted 07:47pm 09/12/11
what about the office dumb f**??good roll for me
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trog
Posted 07:58pm 09/12/11
Heh, I live right around the corner from you guys, but sadly I only tick the first few boxes. Keen to be an editor, but guess not that in depth with those programming style skills.
None of them are what I would call "programming" skills; they're all relatively simple to learn. If you can roll on the command line and follow instructions then that is a big part of it.
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Eorl
Posted 08:20pm 09/12/11
Sweet, applying thennnn! Kind of need to use this diploma/degree I have in games development...
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FraktuRe
Posted 08:21pm 09/12/11
Don't hire Eorl, he betrayed us for teaching!
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Eorl
Posted 08:22pm 09/12/11
LIEEEES!
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demon
Posted 08:38pm 09/12/11
ET, the position of camper is taken

ahaha this brought an image of term grappled to the ceiling to mind :D
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Fixah
Posted 09:58pm 09/12/11
that sounds like the most boring job in the world

i pitty the fool
No way man. After almost 10 years of frequenting the forums, working for AusGamers would be a dream, even if it was unpaid!

Imagine rocking up to work every morning and seeing Trog sitting there with his big red nuke button. It'd just be surreal.

When is the application closing date?
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Jc_23
Posted 09:58pm 09/12/11
Sweet, applying thennnn! Kind of need to use this diploma/degree I have in games development...


Go Eorl! You held the upper hand for all of about 0.5 milliseconds there too :P
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Boxhead
Posted 10:02pm 09/12/11
Is this a 25 words or less competition? And then you'll just randomly pick the winning entry right? (This is my application.)
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FraktuRe
Posted 10:11pm 09/12/11
Seriously though this would be fantastic for me, it's like the dream job. I would trade in my RBJ's for this.
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DeadlyDav0
Posted 10:28pm 09/12/11
Imagine rocking up to work every morning and seeing Trog sitting there with his big red nuke button.

lol
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J
Posted 12:00am 11/12/11
Could you offer any kind of ball-park figure as to how much a position like this might pay?
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Ryan
Posted 03:42am 12/12/11
@J, I don't think they would mention it here.

Much like above, this would be somewhat of a dream job. Maybe next year when there's an actual chance of me moving to Brissy i'll express interest. But for now, I sit and weep.
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trog
Posted 08:19pm 14/12/11
Could you offer any kind of ball-park figure as to how much a position like this might pay?
It's roughly $20/hour; whatever the award rate for data entry is in Qld.
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skythra
Posted 08:25pm 14/12/11
Um.. there's an award for that? Might just be me, but last time I looked, there was basically nothing in QLD for award rates in most IT stuff.
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Eorl
Posted 09:59pm 14/12/11
He means standard pay.
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defi
Posted 11:23am 15/12/11
It's probably under the Clerical Award as its based on data entry. $20 an hour sounds about right.
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