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Business Insider is seeking a careers reporter

Business Insider is hiring a full-time reporter for its Careers vertical, one of the most-read sections of the world’s No. 1 digital business publication.

We’re looking for someone who is insatiably curious about the intricacies of interesting careers and industries; jobs that are perfectly tailored to people’s particular abilities, experience, or needs; workplace issues and trends like paid parental leave and pay equity; and strategies for getting ahead in your career.

As a Careers reporter, you will spend your time researching, pitching, writing, and producing stories. Candidates should be comfortable writing quick, aggregated stories that high light the most interesting angles of the day’s news, while simultaneously working on reported medium-length and long-form features.

Ideal candidates will have:

  • Insatiable curiosity about everything job-, work-, and career-related
  • A strong voice and the ability to write with authority
  • An ability to package information in a fresh and original way
  • An understanding of digital media and how readers consume news on the web
  • At least a Bachelor’s degree, journalism degree and/or background preferred
  • Previous writing experience
  • Knowledge of SEO best practices
  • Copy-editing skills, light HTML and Photoshop experience, and knowledge of social media are also useful

APPLY HERE with your resume and cover letter telling us why this is your ideal job.

This job is full-time and based in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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