Bloomberg seeks journalist to cover careers

Bloomberg is looking for an associate editor to cover the careers beat for Game Plan, a new and growing section of Bloomberg Business dedicated to everything ambitious young people need to get ahead. The section showcases deeply-sourced reporting on the world of higher education, smart and useful news about how to launch and advance your career, and the assorted other stuff striving millennials are thinking about.

We’re obsessed with what’s stressing young people out, both while they’re in college — whether it’s a student debt protest or their textbook budget — and after (the generation gap with real estate agents who want their business, what’s changing about applying to law school, why they can’t sleep, whether co-working spaces are a racket, and, oh yeah, that pesky student debt again).

Who you are:

– The associate editor will report and write regular stories, edit the work of junior reporters and provide other support to the team’s editor. You should be excited by the challenge of wearing these different hats (and seamlessly switching between them).
– You have proven talent as a reporter and at least some editing experience.
– Versatile: you can do quick-hit news analysis, reported pieces mined from deep sourcing, as well as longer-lead enterprise stories
– You can write and edit a smart and addictive weekly newsletter, manage Game Plan’s social media profiles, and find and join relevant conversations on and off the site.
– You have, or can develop, a robust and authoritative beat that includes but isn’t limited to: salaries across industries, navigating a new career and the vagaries of office culture, managing stress at work, innovative careers and job paths, and workplace discrimination.
– You write with a distinctive voice that’s irreverent but stops short of snarky, and
have an authoritative, informed point of view.

More things you should be able to do:

– Know, or know how to find out, what ambitious students and young professionals in their 20s and 30s are talking about in public and not-so-public spheres.
– Regularly break, expose or highlight news that’s relevant to this group, even if it may feel tangential to other Bloomberg readers.
– Be endlessly interested in the decisions, crises, anxieties and diversions that preoccupy young people on path through college and into the workforce
– Have an uncanny ability to spot stories EVERYWHERE and execute them quickly
– Have 1-3 years of reporting experience, a track record of very clean copy and above-average reporting skills, and a smart and engaging voice.

To apply, go here.