The Wall Street Journal’s Life & Work team is hiring an ambitious careers reporter to cover business education, spot wider hiring trends as they’re happening and help readers make smart decisions.
Life & Work is a new team at the Journal that helps readers navigate big decisions and examines the ways we spend money and time, manage our careers, navigate technology, optimize our health and improve our relationships. You’ll cover news and service, anticipating and reacting to trends or explaining how macro forces like competition for talent and return to offices affect workers’ daily lives and rituals – from winning promotions to creating hybrid schedules that work for their lives.
You are a reporter passionate about the beat and full of ideas who can deliver deadline copy with verve. You spot trends ahead of the competition and source broadly, from business leaders and industry experts to end users. As part of this role, you will cover M.B.A. programs and their value proposition for workers from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. You will break news about the ways companies recruit on campus, what’s changing in business schools’ curriculum, the rise of M.B.A. programs outside the U.S. and debates over how a strong economy, rising education cost and cultural trends are shifting the market for business education. You’ll also cover the college-to-career transition and the ways young professionals are reshaping the workplace.
You will:
- Deliver 1-2 stories a week;
- Work with the visuals teams, from graphics to photo to video
- Develop excellent sources on your beat
- Pitch lots of ideas, both on and off the news
- Appear on WSJ podcasts and videos to talk about topics in the news
You have:
- 3+ years of reporting experience, ideally covering education or careers and workplace news
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- The ability to write quickly, accurately and conversationally
- A track record in a variety of story forms, including service journalism, feature stories, enterprise and news
- Passion for consumer journalism and excellent collaboration skills; being a good colleague is a must
While you will likely start remotely, this job will eventually be based in our New York office and reports to Careers & Work Bureau Chief Lynn Cook.
To apply, submit a cover letter describing your experience and what you would bring to this job, a detailed resume and five clips with explanations about what the stories show about your capabilities.
To apply, go here.
