Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Entry Level Jobs You Don't Want

Most college graduates are looking for that groundbreaking entry level job that will open the door to future career possibilities or provide a lifelong opportunity.

A job at a large, successful company might provide this for some people, and usually looks good on a resume, but that's not always the case. Some graduates and new employees are finding the jobs they thought would be the opportunity of a lifetime are quite the opposite.

Valleywag recently rated the 10 worst entry level technology jobs, most of which are with well-known larger companies.

The jobs include:
  • online sales and operations account manager for Google with a salary of $45,000 to $60,000
  • support engineer for Amazon with a salary of $80,000
  • content acquisition intern for IODA with no pay
  • customer support specialist for Fox Interactive's MySpace Division with a salary of $33,000
  • temporary database administrator for Google with a salary of $70,000
  • support professional for Windows and Microsoft products with a salary of $40,000
  • executive administrator to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore with a salary of $55,000
  • analyst of user operations for Facebook with a salary of $45,000
  • operations finance analyst intern for Yahoo with a salary of $12 per hour
  • part-time guide for Mahalo with a salary of $30,000 to $35,000

Most of these positions were targeted as being bad entry level jobs for having a poor job description, small or depressing work space or requiring meaningless and tedious work. Also, most employees in these positions had high grade point averages, had studied abroad and accomplished various other tasks.

"To paraphrase Dan Lyons, there's something distinctly evil about the way Google and the other companies listed below hoard the world's best and brightest and put them to work on creating more efficient text ads or, worse, tasking them with taking phone calls from angry customers," the article adds.

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