[nirvAnA]

SC2SEA.COM Staff Openings
We want you!

Our site is growing bigger and better everyday, and if you would like to contribute and help our community grow, you are welcome to apply for a position with us. For now the basic criteria would be a history of quality posts by you at this site or at previous news posting/admin jobs at other respectable sites and more importantly a strong love for the SEA community! Apart from being a respectable poster, the key trait for all these staff applications is being passionate about what you do.

As our site continues to improve daily with features and content, your help will be vital in helping us cope with the increased traffic Dedicating your own time and going out of your way to ensure events are run well and properly all for the growth of the community is no easy task unless you have the self-driven passion for it. If you wanna be part of shaping our future or accelerating the growth of the SEA community we will love to have you abroad.

Although there are some cool side benefits like becoming a respected figure in the community, customised avatars/badges/usertitles, being involved with a site with plenty of traffic, or even the potential transition to a full moderator one day (after having proven to be a relaible staff member), the sole reason why you should apply is because of your geniune passion for Starcraft and eSports/community work.

Here are the positions we need.

1) Tournament Organisers

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Description: Love organising tournaments? Have a great idea but not the connections? Why not do it with our support! Instantly get the traffic, sponsored prizes, stream connections and a very easy tournament structure to use. We also currently need help with running some of our regular tournaments and in the future, proven staff will be handpicked to join our professional team which handles sponsored tournaments.

Basic Requirement:
You have good amount of free time available and would love to spend some of that time doing something you're passionate about like flexing your organisational skills! Students or part-timers with little work/family commitments with a mature and responsible attitude are strongly encouraged to apply.

Bonus Requirements:

• Decent level of written English
• Basic knowledge of text/layout formatting and HTML
• Able to work under stress and multitask well
• A responsible, impartial and dedicated individual who can set aside time one day a week
• Actively online and follows the scene
• Applicants with little expereince but have demonstrated an "on the ball" and eager to learn attitude will be considered.

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2) News Posters / Article Writers & Photo Album Manager

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Description: The Writing Staff will be in charge of writing regular articles or short weekly summaries of what has happened in the StarCraft II scene and the SEA community.
Basic Requirement:
You have a 2-3 hours of free time a week and a love and flair for writing. We want dedicated and skilled writers who could highlight current hot topics weekly or even give their personal take on a starcraft related topic of their choice, but mostly importantly enjoy writing. Two writing positions, one for an Article Writer with more flexibility in terms of content, and a Weekly Scribe who would help with tournament summaries and recaps to keep the community updated. The last position will be an Admin for our new Photo Album section where albums will be categorised appropirately with descriptions and pictures, and required to be updated periodically when a new event finishes.

Bonus Requirements:

• Fluent in written English
• Basic knowledge of text/layout formatting and HTML
• Actively online and follows the scene
• Ability to write short descriptions and overviews of events
• Ability to communicate ideas in an interesting/entertaining way

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3) Banner/Design/Image Specialist (Urgent!)

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We would also need the following volunteers:

Banner Specialist

• Intermediate knowledge of photoshop or an equivilant image editing tool.
• Have a creative and artistic flair for banner design
• Able to create asthetically pleasing designs based on a certain theme.

CSS-Specialist

• Intermediate knowledge of CSS
• Able to Re-design of layout / logo / theme for the site

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How to Apply for Staff
If you want to join us, PM nirvana with the following information:

Subject: (Position Applying For)
- Name
- Amount of hours you would feel comfortable dedicating each week
- Age/Location/B.net Nick
- Nick on other forums
- Contact Information (AIM, MSN, or IRC)
- Relative Experience
- Why should we pick you?

Please note that your application is also a representation of your commitment as a potential staff member on the site. If you submit short one word answers it wouldn't give us the impression you would do your staff duties with much effort too, but at the same time its best to be clear and concise with your application and not give overly long answers.

Feel free to also send a message if you want to help out in ways we did not post above!

Applications will be strictly confidential and only shortlisted candiates will be notified.

[zendex]

Good luck to all applicants!

[HDPhoenix]

Hope to see more people sign up to help the community ^^

[SkyBreaker]

GL to all the applicants, look forward to seeing who's brought on-board

[Makra]

Just to clarify, are these volunteer or paid positions?

[xGKingBenji]

Volunteer.

[Torniquet]

None of us get paid for anything =/? Including Nirvana ill believe youll find.

Also should be a requirement that you are able to stay on topic during discussions and not derail it in something that for some reason we always end up at =/

[xGKingBenji]

Originally Posted by Torniquet

None of us get paid for anything =/? Including Nirvana ill believe youll find.

Also should be a requirement that you are able to stay on topic during discussions and not derail it in something that for some reason we always end up at =/

I think baby seals are not as cute as baby deer.

[Makra]

Originally Posted by Torniquet

None of us get paid for anything =/? Including Nirvana ill believe youll find.

Learn something every day etc etc :/

[HDPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Torniquet

None of us get paid for anything =/? Including Nirvana ill believe youll find.

Agreed. Nirvana and crew pay for this website, ventrilo and have put in countless weeks into making SC2SEA what it is. SC2SEA is also made out of many generous donors who provide the cash, time and energy to run our various tournaments. I believe we run over 5 tournaments a week and cover many other events like GSL, TCL and various other international events.

As always, eSports is passion-based and passion-run. If you don't have passion for this, its better that you find something else ^^

[Makra]

Originally Posted by HDPhoenix

If you don't have passion for this, its better that you find something else ^^

Not sure if that was due to my question. But in case I came off as uninterested in anything but money, I would apply for it if I had the time, as I do have the passion. Unfortunately I'm in need of paid work at the moment and as I'm already involved in some volunteer work elsewhere, I don't have the time to commit to more.

Cheers =)

[Meatex]

I have no doubt there will be heaps of applicants ^^

[Eddie]

What tournaments do you need help with?

[Yoz]

Everyone wants to be a Tournament Organiser

[BaKaiNu]

It helps for the tournament organizers to have a good sense of communication with people as well as tolerance. As tournament organizers, we help to bring the community together with awesome tournaments, so being able to be in the scene helps tremendously.

That being said, good luck to all the applicants. =D

[Genesis]

@ nirvAnA
check PM please. Application sent for Tournament Head/Organiser.

Thanks alot

[HDPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Makra

Not sure if that was due to my question. But in case I came off as uninterested in anything but money, I would apply for it if I had the time, as I do have the passion. Unfortunately I'm in need of paid work at the moment and as I'm already involved in some volunteer work elsewhere, I don't have the time to commit to more.

Cheers =)

That's cool bro ^^. It was slighty directed at you but mainly to the general readership. I myself have a very hard time balancing SC2 and work so its understandable =)

[TAhackdZ]

Check your PM's nirvAnA.

I would be interested in doing some of the Article write ups and things like that.

[nirvAnA]

The application period has ended for now. For those who have missed it, please wait for our new phase of recruitment (probably in 3 months time). We have received a large number of applicants and i would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to apply for the positions. Because of the limited positions we have we couldn't accept the majority or applicants and we just had to pick whom we thoguht were the most suitable at this point of time.

If selected, you will be notified over this weekend by PMs/MSN so check in regularly and if you don't get contacted, thats not the end, it just means you weren't chosen for this recruitment phase at this point of time and your name may still be under consideration for future roles we have.

We hope you members dont stop contributing and helping the community grow, whether or not in an official staff capacity - it should be something you enjoy to do on own your own terms. It also makes it really easy for us to make picks in the next phase or even auto invite you to staff before that if you have already demonstrated your good qualities over the forums.

e.g DoX already had been providing top notch coverage and forum postings and we were actually already about to auto invite him way before i put up the article/coverage writer application so when he sent in his application it was an instant yes.

[deL]

Ridiculisk hwaiting!