Forbes is looking to hire temporary researchers to assist in maintaining its Real-Time Billionaires ranking and producing popular lists like the World's Billionaires and Forbes 400 projects.
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills and research experience.
- Interest in delving into financial documents.
- Comfort with financial figures and terms.
- Prior experience in writing or finance is a plus.
- Language skills are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Gathering information on billionaires through old-school reporting: digging through financial filings and annual reports, conducting phone interviews with billionaires themselves and reaching out to third-party sources.
- Calculating the net worth of each billionaire and ensuring our biographical data is accurate and up to date for the billionaires you cover.
- Analyzing trends in wealth to uncover new billionaires and story ideas.
- Using AI platforms as tools to help with the process of data and information collection.
- There is the potential to contribute to web features and short magazine articles.
Other
- Interest in covering successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople.
- Please include a cover letter describing yourself, why you’re interested in Forbes and what you can bring to the Forbes newsroom.
- Candidates who are selected for interviews will be asked to complete a short research exercise.
- This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington.
