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Business Insider seeks a jobs reporter

Business Insider is hiring a full-time reporter to cover cool, mysterious and popular jobs.

What’s it really like to be a flight attendant? What do Starbucks baristas wish they could tell customers but can’t? What’s it really like to work at Disney World? What does a day in the life of a cruise ship worker look like? Which companies pay interns the best? What’s the best job for a person who hates stress?

Those are just some of the stories you’d be reporting on.

Our readers come from all sorts of backgrounds, from app developers to truck drivers to entrepreneurs to CEOs. Our jobs reporter will get inside the cubicles, break rooms, and corner offices to show what life is like in all kinds of positions and at all kinds of companies.

They will guide readers on how to land the opportunities they want, what it’s really like once they’re there, and how to succeed in any role. They’ll tour offices, make lots of lists, shadow executives, and share hiring insights readers need.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Excellent writing and communication skills
  • Be efficient, energized and have great story judgement
  • An understanding of how readers consume news digitally
  • An ability to identify the heart of a story quickly
  • Experience working in a newsroom
  • Familiarity with SEO practices

The is a full-time position based in our New York City headquarters. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits.

Created for the digital generation, Business Insider is the largest business news site in the U.S. and one of the fastest-growing news brands in the world. We embrace the themes of positive change and innovation and use fast, fun, and informative storytelling to cover the business, tech, and finance news stories you need to know to work, play and live better.

APPLY HERE with your resume and a cover letter explaining why you want to be our jobs reporter.

To apply, go here.

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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