Topic: PGC Seeks Applications for Staff Writer Position

[Jonnyboy117]

PGC is hiring staff writers, and that means anyone can apply…no prior experience necessary.  Details inside!

Our call for applications is now ending.  We thank everyone for the tremendous response.  Due to the number of candidates, it will take some time to go through every application and narrow down the field.  We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Unfortunately, we are only able to notify those people who are offered the position, due to the volume of applicants.  Please wait one or two weeks from this posting; if you have not heard from us by then, you were probably not selected.  Please do not follow-up your application with emails asking about the status of the selection process, as you will only slow us down, and we have a lot of material to evaluate.

Thanks again for your interest!  The people we select should have content visible on the site by the end of November.  We wish you the best of luck in becoming one of those people.

[Hostile Creation]

Oh, cool.  Definitely interested, you'll be getting one from me soon.  I'll have a few questions about the position, though.

[Pale]

I wants it too, seeing as I didn't get the web programmer position from a while ago..  Is there a due date on apps?

edit:: No that isn't bad english...I'm just being silly..

(not a very good thing to do when talking about a possible writing position huh.... )

[Mario]

Damn, I wish I was a good writer.

[WuTangTurtle]

I'd say i would love the position but school and work would get in the way.  Plus gaming would get in the way

[Jonnyboy117]

PaleZero, I will be keeping the announcement on the main page through this weekend.  Sometime next week I'll start choosing my top picks and conferring with the senior staff on who to hire.  I'd like to have them all by then.  This process is too intensive to do on a continuous basis, and that's why I always ask people to keep reading the site for when we call for applications.

ShaolinKilla, I appreciate you being honest about your schedule.  This is an intensive position, especially for the kind of hungry people we are looking for (people like many of us staffers were when we first started and weren't yet in college or jobs or relationships).  We really do need people with plenty of free time.

[S. Thompson]

Hm - I'm with ShaolinKilla on this one. College and game dev take far too much of my time away. But this position was a good incentive for me to register and post thanking everyone for their hard work here. I visit everyday.

- Fuzmeister

[Hostile Creation]

Whoo, for a second I was thinking Hunter S. Thompson was going to be competition.  What a relief

[VideoGamerJ]

I'm really interested in this, but I'm afraid the competition will blow me to bits. I'll try anyway, in hope that I get some position or another.

[Ms.Pikmin]

"Must be mature (regardless of age)"


I'm out

[Hostile Creation]

Haha.

Awesome avatar, by the way.  Haven't seen her in years, I'd nearly forgotten about her.

[JonLeung]

Shoot.  I'm Canadian and was hoping to get paid.  >_<

On that note, kudos to you volunteers that currently write!  This is a web site that I check at least once each day, and I'm often surprised that there are somehow Nintendo-related news almost every day.

Seeing as how my five-month temp job might be over at the end of this week, I guess I'll have time...I wish being Canadian wasn't such a stigma, though...  

[Djunknown]

Canada?  U.S? Same thing. Only they stronger beer.

Very tempting to apply, but since I jump around places, I can't say I'd be reliable for the job. I'm sure the Starbuck's employee would understand my excuse to leech their wi-fi after they close because I have to put up a review...

Anyway, good luck to the candidates! Can't wait to see who's picked.

[Pale]

Here's to hoping someone in the forums get it.  

[Bloodworth]

Considering the type of person we're looking for, I'd say that's a high possibility.

[PKFC]

Haha... My submission has been sent with a huge rambling email and a silly writing sample about the great video game market crash of 2003-2004 (Humour me-I wrote it in Oct 2001 )

[sikboy1029]

Well, I sent mine, no writing sample though. Hope the fact that I'm almost always available helps. **Who betta than Danion?**(wrestling fans will get it)  

[sikboy1029]

and hey, another Daniel on the staff couldn't hurt

[LaRazaUnida]

what are the credentials needed to attend E3?  If i were a staff writer would i be able to attend E3?  Money is no issue, i just need to know what and who are able to go to E3. But it would be great if i would be able to report about it.

[KnowsNothing]

Ahaha, good luck to anyone who sends in an application.  It'd be rad if a forum inhabitant got the job :thumbsup:  

Well, I'd send in an application if only: (a) I didn't have a fear of being wrong (my main reason for...ummm....spamming.....), (b) I had the ability to write coherently, or if (c) I had any real desire.  

[CHEN]

Yes, I would love to, but sadly I'm not much of a writer. And college gets in the way. Good luck, applicants.

[JonLeung]

Perfectionism isn't said to be a requirement, but I've got that, now that I think about it.  If only being able to spell "weird" correctly, differentiate between "your" and "you're", and not use an apostrophe for most plural nouns were prerequisites, I'd definitely go for it.  I mean, I'm three steps above most of the people on the Internet already!

Most of my bosses and supervisors don't have those points, and I wonder what kind of world we live in if someone like myself, a university graduate, has to take orders from people who didn't pay attention in ELEMENTARY.

But I digress.  Good luck to everyone going for it.

[gally]

Mature (not in age) is a requirement. GOOD.

If you've seen the hell that is Nintendojo (according to Alexa's ratings, not as popular as Planet Gamecube thank god), you'll see what happens when people let their immature biases get in the way.

The people there are idiots. They always editorialize in their reviews, often about maturity. They complain about cel-shading whenever it shows up, and act as though it exists for the sole purpose of being different. They use the word "kiddy" too much - what mature journalist does something like that? The guy who wrote the review of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door actually said that Paper Mario wasn't the "graphically stunning, mature epic" that players somehow expected after Super Mario RPG (yeah, what a "mature epic" that was, and what a thing we'd expect from Mario. Read review at http://www.nintendojo.com/reviews/NGC/view_item.php?1098138530 ).

And let's not forget their "editorials", ALL of which are stupid rants with little more than opinion put into them. Don't expect something that intelligently explores multiple points of view and comes to a conclusion. Expect a rant, especially if it's from Eric "I am an overgrown adolescent" Mattei.

The least they can do is to stop bragging about how they're Canadian. They must be making our neighbors up north look bad.

Anyway, my rant about Nintendojo is only to demonstrate what happens when maturity is not a pre-requisite for a writing position. You can visit their site to see why Planet Gamecube is so much better. Keep up the great work guys.

[PKFC]

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Originally posted by: gally

The least they can do is to stop bragging about how they're Canadian. They must be making our neighbors up north look bad.

A ha! So THAT'S why they don't want Canadians ;P *snickers* no really... why only Americans?

[Hostile Creation]

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For logistical purposes, candidates in the United States will be given priority

Whatever that means