Following that train of thought, and moving into the professional arean there are many resources and tools that make your job search simpler.

To get a broader view, I asked the Music Jobs team what their favorite resource or tool on our site was, and this is what they had to say:

Tammy R. – Definitely the job alerts and stats!

Laura P. – The ability to upload a PDF of your formatted resume, your MP3s, and images to help showcase your profile.

Drew S. – Loves the “Find People” search function because it provides an easy way of getting in touch with the right people for my current and future musical projects.

Warren K. – The statistics section.  There’s nothing more exciting than checking statistics to see if an employer has viewed your profile.

Stu M. – I like the ability to connect with my Facebook account and have Music Jobs notifications of new alerts appear within Facebook.

Moritz S. – I love the job alerts.  Tailored alerts to exactly the types of jobs you’re looking for – conveniently straight into your inbox.

Last of all, me: Tara D. – I’m thankful for being there for our members.  We have a direct telephone line for the site, and I answer the phones.  I’m glad I can provide instant customer service to members with questions or concerns as they arise.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We at US Music Jobs are excited to start up a new promotion. If you are an unpaid registered member of Music Jobs and own a blog or website, you can get one month of paid membership for FREE. Don’t have an account yet? Sign up, and get your profile running for free, here!

How does it work?

If you are a registered US Music Jobs member and you have a personal blog, this will be quite easy for you. Simply write in your blog about US Music Jobs and include a link to our site. A couple of possible blog post ideas include a short or detailed description of the site, how Music Jobs has helped you in your job hunt, an informative wiki-like profile of our site, or you can write a review about US Music Jobs.

If you don’t have a blog yet, there are plenty of free blog providers that you can join, including Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal, and many more.

Have a website, but no blog? No problem! Just write about us on one of your pages, refer people back to us, and link back to our site.

You can link to the US Music Jobs Homepage (us.music-jobs.com) , but it may be more useful for your readers if you linked to the jobs board page at http://us.music-jobs.com/jobsboard.php. But, if you feel we have a page on our site more relevant to your readers, feel free to link back to that page instead (ie, the “About Us page“). (Remember, the link has to be clickable. To do this on most blogging platforms, highlight the text you want to make a link, click the icon that looks like a globe with a chain link in front of it, then press OK or DONE).

Once you have your blog post up, send us the following to usmj_promo@music-jobs.com:

1. Your Name and US Music Jobs username (click here to sign up for free)
2. Your website or blog’s URL with the posting about US Music Jobs

Also, if you know any artists or anyone in the music industry that is not with Music Jobs currently, why not tell them about this promotion? It’s a great opportunity for non members to try out our service at no cost. Just have them sign up for a free account at the freelancer registration page to get started!

This promotion will last from today, August 6, 2009 until , September 6, 2009. Members who qualify for the free one month’s subscription will be contacted by email.

Thanks, everyone!
US Music Jobs

Conditions and terms: URLs and links to US Music Jobs must be clickable. Links with the “no-follow” tag in the HTML are not considered eligible for the promotion. Please allow up to three business days for approval. Link and info must be posted outside of US Music Jobs. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other sites that use “no-folow” and framed browsing do not qualify. Only one free month subscription per member. Free month contingent on Music Jobs’s link presence for a minimum of 1 month on members’ blog/website.