Content Strategy Interviews

Shannon Leahy Content design jobs have become scarcer as the digital world adjusts to the post-pandemic tech economy. Shannon Leahy does her best to make sure that her content colleagues discover the jobs that are available, scouring the internet for job listings and sharing them in her social media feeds. But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her contributions to the field. She's also a long-time meetup organizer and an avid and generous participant in the content design community. We talked about: her take on the current state of the content design job market the wide range of industries beyond tech that offer content job opportunities - like sports, energy, transportation, manufacturing, and logistics how to sift through job listings to find opportunities that might be labeled differently than content folks might think about them how her algorithm-breaking job-search alerts reveal employment patterns that might have otherwise gone undiscovered the importance of community pa