If you want to help publish the most fabulous career books in the world, consider working with FabJob.

About FabJob

Founded in 1999, with a website visited by millions of people per year, FabJob is the world's leading publisher of information about dream careers. Our mission is to assist fabulous people who are ready to achieve their dreams. 

FabJob is an award-winning indie book publisher and e-book industry pioneer that has published more than 120 e-books and print books. 

FabJob guides and career advice have been featured in leading media and websites including: ABC, AOL, CareerBuilder, CNN, Entrepreneur, Essence, Fast Company, Microsoft's MSN, Oprah's newsletter, Wall Street Journal online, Woman's Day, Yahoo! and many more.

Fab Fact: In the movie Bewitched, Nicole Kidman's character browses FabJob books in a bookstore, while Will Ferrell's character trips over a display of FabJob books in the movie's trailer.

Why Work With FabJob

• You will be working with a company recognized as an industry leader. Among other achievements, FabJob has been named "the # 1 place to get published online" by Writer's Digest Magazine. See our company page for more information.

• You can enjoy the flexibility of working at home and choosing your own hours.

• FabJob offers careers that are exciting, challenging, and give you the opportunity to learn and grow.

• FabJob.com makes a difference in many people's lives by inspiring them to achieve their dreams. 

Although we do not currently have any job openings, we invite you to submit a resume for future consideration. Please click on a link for information:

Career Guide Writer
Virtual Assistant - Editorial
Other Positions

Although we do not currently have any job openings, we invite you to submit a resume for future consideration. 

As a FabJob guide writer, you will join our team of award-winning best-selling authors.

If you become a FabJob guide writer, we will provide you with a template for our guides and you will add career-specific content based on research and recommendations from industry experts. For example, if the guide includes a chapter on starting a business, the template will provide information about how to write a business plan (among other advice on starting a business), and you will write a sample business plan for that particular type of business. 

Assignments may involve researching and writing an entire guide (adding a minimum of 15,000 or 20,000 words to the template), or researching and writing part of a guide. Payment is on a flat fee (non-royalty) basis. Assignments pay $1,500 to $2,000 U.S., depending on length, for writing a complete FabJob guide.

Payment is on acceptance (normally within a couple of weeks of submission). Using our template, you should be able to complete one guide per month part-time. We also publish authors' bios in the guide, and provide copies of the e-book as well as the print book when published.

In addition to submitting publication-ready manuscripts by the agreed upon deadlines, the writers we hire have:

• Exceptional academic research skills 
• An engaging writing style
• Respect for copyright
• Experience writing respected "how to" information, preferably books (most FabJob authors have written for or worked with the editorial departments of other respected publishers such as World Book Encyclopedia

We appreciate all applications, and will provide further details about assignments to writers we are interested in working with.

Virtual Assistant - Editorial

Although we do not currently have any job openings, we invite you to submit a resume for future consideration. 

If you would like a rewarding editorial position with a leading indie book publisher, consider working with FabJob.com, named "the #1 place to get published online" by Writer's Digest.

We're seeking a virtual assistant to work on a part-time contract basis with our editorial department. Reporting to the Managing Editor, the position will involve working on editorial tasks and may also include coordinating the work of FabJob writers and editors. 

You will assist with editorial tasks such as researching, writing, fact-checking, and proofreading for new FabJob print books and e-books which are being revised or expanded for print publication. After you have worked on several FabJob projects, you may be asked to help prepare and distribute editorial and design schedules.

Hours of work are flexible and you may work part-time or full-time. This is a work-at-home position, so we accept applications from anywhere in the United States or Canada. While pay is negotiable, please keep in mind that this is a junior editorial position for an indie book publisher. 

The ideal candidate is organized, skilled at coordinating  projects, has a positive "can do" attitude, excellent written communication skills, and a strong work ethic. Previous paid or volunteer experience relevant to FabJob is an asset.

If you feel you are a good fit with what we are looking for, please submit several paragraphs about yourself using the form at the bottom of this page. (Follow the instructions listed below under "How to Apply to FabJob.")

Other Positions

Although we have no other current job openings, we expect to add to our team in future, so we encourage you to submit an application using the form at the bottom of this page if you have experience and skills that will help us sell more FabJob guides. 

We think it's pretty clear what our company is all about, but we've learned we have to come right out and say: FabJob does not hire for most of the careers we publish guides about.

For those who have figured out that we're book publishers and not an employment agency, you may be interested to know that the 20 jobs we don't hire for which we have received the most applications for are (listed alphabetically): actor, cartoonist, celebrity assistant, children's book author, cruise ship worker, event planner, fashion designer, flight attendant, interior decorator, massage therapist, model, motivational speaker, mystery shopper, personal shopper, recording artist, songwriter, travel writer, TV reporter, video game designer, wedding planner. 

For anyone still hoping we'll hire them for any of the jobs listed in the previous paragraph, sorry, but we cannot read or respond to applications for any of those jobs. If you want one of these jobs order a FabJob guide to learn how to break into the career of your dreams.

How to Apply to FabJob's Editorial Department

If you are applying for a position as a writer or editorial assistant in the FabJob editorial department, please read and follow all application instructions, including the Dos and Don'ts below. 

Although we usually receive hundreds of applications for every available editorial position, if you follow the dos and don'ts below you will already be ahead of 95% of applicants.

Dos for Editorial Applicants

• Do read the requirements for the position and any other recommended information before applying.
• This should go without saying, but we've found it needs to be said: It's important to actually follow the application instructions including this list of Dos and Don'ts. 
• Do provide specific information about your qualifications directly related to the position you are applying for. We are currently receiving more than 500 applications for every editorial position so it is important to show us, in a well-written application, why you are the ideal person for the job. (If you need help with this, our website has a lot of fabulous free advice about how to apply for a job.)
• Do tell us your complete Myers-Briggs Type if you are applying for any position that requires research skills (i.e. any writing or editing position).
• If you are applying for a writing position, do mention any particular small business topics you have expertise in which fit with the FabJob product line but which we have not yet published guides about.
• Do include the words I have followed the application instructions somewhere in your application. 
• Do remember to proofread before hitting the submit button.

• Don't address us as dear sirs or make up a new name for our company (either FabJob or FabJob.com are correct, whereas other variations on our name, such as Fabio and Fatjobs, are not).
• Don't use the form to apply for any position unrelated to our business as a book publisher. For example, it is a waste of your time to apply to be a fashion designer, mystery shopper, motivational speaker, event planner, etc. 
• Don't use this form to ask us for career advice. For fabulous advice, order a FabJob guide.
• Don't submit a resume unless we ask for one. (For editorial positions we want to see how well you write, and a resume doesn't show that.)
• Don't disclose personal information such as references to your health, family, religion, childhood, or age.
• Don't provide little information about yourself and ask us to check out your website or contact you with more information about a job. Because of the number of applications we receive, we can follow up only with people we are interested in working with. 

When you submit the form it will take you to a page that acknowledges your submission. We will respond personally if we are interested in following up.

How to Spot a Fake Job Ad

Scammers post fake job ads in newspapers or online, claiming to offer positions working for respected companies. Here are a few tips about how to avoid applying for fake jobs with any company:

• Check the company's own website to see which positions they have available. You'll see from this page that FabJob.com does NOT have positions for "call center agents", "customer service representatives", "mystery shoppers" or "secret shoppers".
• Where possible, apply through the hiring company's own website. For any FabJob.com position, you should apply on this webpage.
• Don't submit an application to a free email address. Legitimate employers let you REPLY to email addresses containing their company name and don't use Yahoo, Gmail, iPal, or other emails. (Remember that a scammer can fake a "from" email address; what's important is the address they ask you to reply to.)
• Don't send a company money for a job! Employers pay you; not the other way around. 
• Please contact the company if you see a job ad that appears to be fraudulent so they can take action to get the fake ad removed.

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