As an entry-level job seeker, you may be wondering what the best way to get started in your career is. There are many different options, and it’s important to remember that the first step towards a successful career is having a good attitude and being willing to learn new things.
The first step to finding an entry level job is deciding what kind of work you want to do. Do you want a job that is more focused on learning new skills or gaining experience? If so, there are many different areas of employment where this can happen. For example:
- Starting out as a receptionist at an office can help you learn how businesses work and give you exposure to different departments.
- Working as a waiter or waitress can help you learn how restaurants run and introduce you to different customers from all walks of life.
- Working as an intern at a company can give you valuable insight into how businesses operate that would be hard for someone without experience on their resume.
Once you’ve decided what kind of work interests you and how best to get started doing it, it’s time to start applying! There are many different ways people find jobs these days; some companies post jobs online while others rely mostly on word-of-mouth recommendations from
Entry Level Jobs Business
An entry-level job is a job that is normally designed or designated for recent graduates of a given discipline and typically does not require prior experience in the field or profession. These roles may require some on-site training. Many entry-level jobs are part-time and do not include employee benefits. Recent graduates from high school or college usually take entry-level positions. Entry-level jobs targeted at college graduates often offer a higher salary than those targeted at high school graduates. These positions are more likely to require specific skills, knowledge, or experience.[1] Most entry-level jobs offered to college graduates are full-time permanent positions and some offer more extensive graduate training programs. While entry-level jobs traditionally required no experience, the Great Recession produced a surplus of college graduates on the job market and eliminated many entry-level positions.[2][3]
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The Donor Relations Specialist will provide support to the Donor Relations team by responding to a wide range of donor inquiries from around the world in multiple languages using an online ticket-based customer service platform. In this position, you will be communicating with donors and also spend a portion of your time translating messages from English to Spanish. This remote, parttime position offers flexible scheduling, however, in order to support our donors in the Western Hemisphere, and our growing annual Latin American fundraiser, we are looking for someone who is fluent in Spanish and available to work hours that are compatible with a Latin American time zone.
Email Fundraising (Developer) Specialist
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Email Developer Specialist to join the Online Fundraising team, reporting to Senior Manager, Global Fundraising Campaigns. As the Email Developer Specialist, you will play a critical role in the online fundraising team’s year-round, multilingual fundraising and engagement campaigns. The magic of the online fundraising team’s process is its dedication to controlled (“a/b”) testing, which leverages Wikipedia’s audience of millions of readers to iterate and improve all elements of our online donor pipeline. We use that testing model on the email team to contact more than 15 million people each year while ensuring we respect our donors’ inboxes.
Senior Manager, Global Fundraising Campaigns
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, serving nearly half a billion users every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors around the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Manager, Campaigns to join the Online Fundraising team, reporting to the Vice President of Advancement. The Senior Manager, Campaigns will be a part of the leadership cohort within the Advancement Department. In this role, you will lead a team of Email and campaign specialists to deliver innovative campaigns that inspire our global community of readers to support Wikipedia. Succeeding in this role will require strong people management skills and a creative, data-driven mindset to help us get to the next level of innovation to drive the continued growth of Wikimedia’s fundraising program
Communications
Senior Director of External Communications (Marketing Communications)
Remote
This role will be responsible for marketing and communications at Wikimedia Foundation, developing strategy for the Foundation’s global external communications, and directing execution across all paid, owned and earned media channels, to maximize impact. This includes integrated marketing, digital communications, media relations, executive communications, and integration with the insight and analytics capability that supports all of these disciplines. To maximize the positive impact of External Communications on the Foundation as a whole, success in this role will necessitate close collaboration with other specialists in the Department. These include Movement Communications, Foundation Communications, Project Management, and Brand Studio (the internal brand guardianship and creative capability), and an effective partnership with other Departments.
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist for the European region. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a particular focus on the European region. We are looking for an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience working across the European region; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause.
Impact Analyst
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a highly collaborative and analytical audience & market impact professional to track the progress, trends and success of our strategies and campaigns. This work is critical to growing Wikipedia usage worldwide. In this role, you will work with the Foundation communications, product, advancement, community, partnership, and research teams to monitor and report on overall global growth and engagement initiatives. Lead implementation of the diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy by providing insights, thought leadership and guidance to leadership teams as well as operational teams. You will create high-level and detailed impact reporting and views for up-to-date sharing with partners, compiled from a variety of source reporting systems.
Finance and Administration
Senior IT Systems Engineer
Remote
Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced IT Systems Engineer to own solutions development, implementation, maintenance, and day to day operations surrounding our IDP systems and their integrations. This role will be heavily involved in both software and user lifecycle management, developing, and enhancing our standards and operations in those areas. You will be responsible for planning, assessing and operationalizing the technical process improvements of key workflows related to our IDP system as well as assisting our technical leads with our ERP systems. Our ideal candidate will be excited to play an integral role during the Foundation’s most rapid growth period transforming our business tools. This role will be a member of the Information Technology Services Team within the Finance and Administration Department.
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