Even as the number of tales mount of communicators whose jobs have become casualties of the economy, companies are at the same time hiring to fill critical communication positions. Here are three resources that list open positions companies are trying to fill:

IABC

The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) lists jobs ranging from the executive level to specialists. Current listings include positions with companies like Avery Denison, Mercedes Benz USA, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Kaiser Permanente, and Symantec. You can apply directly from the site.

Job of the Week

IABC stalwart Ned Lundquist, ABC, started this email list when he and a few other communicators who were out of work at the time decided to share leads with one another. What started as a handful of subscribers to a simple list turned into an audience of thousands, and the email list is now also available in blog form.

The beauty of JOTW is that the community provides the leads. And there’s more than just job listings here; there’s also converation amnong the members of the community, which Ned aggregates into each weekly listing. When someone needs to fill a job immediately, Ned sends that out as a “JOTW Can’t Wait Posting.”

Current listings on JOTW are for organizations like the ATF, the American Red Cross, the National Children’s Museum, the CUNY School of Law, and Smucker’s. There are, incidentally, 61 open jobs listed in the latest edition, which is par for the course for JOTW.

Resting Communicators LinkedIn Group

Robin Crumby, CEO of the UK-based Melcrum (a communications publisher and conference organizer) has created a LinkedIn group designed, as Robin put it in a blog post, “to connect out-of-work communicators, and give them the opportunity to share their experiences and support each other through the tough times.” Undoubtedly, as with Ned’s email, they will also share leads.

What other publicly-available communication job resources are there? Comment here and if we get enough of them, I’ll start a page on TheNewPR listing them all.