Contribute to the Careers!

Are you passionate about helping others succeed in their job search and careers? Looking for a great place to share your career experiences or expertise? Have a great idea that you think our tens of thousands of readers would benefit from?

Optim Careers is always looking for career experts who are interested in contributing and promoting their reputation as recruiters, coaches, and hiring managers. We also love to hear stories and lessons from those who have persisted in the face of struggle and wish to contribute stories about their experience to help motivate and help others who may be experiencing the same challenges.

What we want

  • Advice from experts in fields related to career advancement, job search, interviewing, and personal finances

  • Articles that offer a fresh perspective on career advancement, management, leadership, job search, or finances

  • True stories about unique, original ideas that landed you a job or promotion

  • Actionable tips, expert articles on trends and predictions, and personal stories that are positioned as advice for our readers

  • Strong writing that matches our voice and style

  • Evidence-based writing with facts to support claims including surveys

What we pass on

  • Basic stuff that you could find on every other career site out there

  • Articles targeted toward entrepreneurs or business owners

  • Lifestyle content about things like food, fashion, or weekend activities

  • Anything overly promotional to a specific company or brand; we want advice, not sales pitches

  • Anything with unnatural inline links; we don’t accept guest posts from writers who work for marketing agencies working to place links for a brand or company

  • Content that has been published elsewhere

  • Anything that sounds too formal or stuffy. If IBM and Apple had a baby - that’s us, somewhere between formal and the pub

What you get

Over 22,000 Eager Eyes

Your piece won’t just be seen by our readers. Your article will be shared far and wide via social promotion, newsletters, and syndication partners.

Multiple Ways to Promote Yourself

Each contributor receives a bio page with links to their work, social media follow buttons, backlinks, and free advertisement space - making it easy for readers to find out more about you, your career, and your company.

Editorial Insight

You’ll work with our editors to get your article ready to publish, meaning you get feedback to become an even better writer.

Ready to get started?

We, unfortunately, don’t have time to respond to all inquiries, but we’ll be in touch within two weeks of submission if we’d like to hear more. Just a note though that we won’t consider pitches that don’t include all of the information listed below.

To submit a story for consideration, please email editor@optimcareers.com with the subject line Optim Careers Ptich: (story idea) with the following information:

  • A bit about you. Tell us about yourself, the experiences you have to share, and why you’re the right person to write this article

  • Your idea. Pitch us your article idea. Tell us the title, write out a sample introduction, and then briefly outline how you would approach the rest of the piece, including any experts, data, or sources you would include. Please don’t send a full draft.

  • Links. Send us 2-3 samples of your previous writing. If you’ve never written before, consider the pitch above your writing sample.

  • Your LinkedIn profile. The internet’s a wild place and we want to make sure you are who you say you are. The best way for us to do that is to take a look at your profile.