Entry-level jobs hiring right now

The top of the list is store and restaurant chains, pharmacies and grocers, which post the same front-line role in many towns at once. That is where the volume is. Three names near the top are not ordinary employers, though. Mindrift, in second place on November 7, is an AI training platform: it posts per-hour contract work training and checking AI models, which is real work but rarely full time or salaried. Randstad (it shows up as Randstadusa) is a staffing agency, and Aya Healthcare places travel nurses. Both post on behalf of client employers, so the place you end up working may not be the name on the card. Ask a staffing recruiter who the client is before you interview.

If you want an office job with a salary, look further down. Northrop Grumman and Abbott were among the 20 busiest entry-level posters in the 30 days to November 7, along with CVS Health and Amazon.

Often it doesn't. A LinkedIn analysis of more than 3.8 million entry-level postings on its site, from December 2017 to August 2021, found 35% asked for at least three years of relevant experience. In software it was 60.3%. In retail it was 8.2%.

Our feed can't read every posting's experience line, so we won't give you our own percentage. What Fresherify does is ask its main job sources for entry and junior roles, and when a source gives a years-of-experience range, the job details show it before you click apply. For everything else, here is how we read the experience line.

Most employers don't put "entry level" in the job title. They use the title the role will have for years. Searching those titles turns up far more jobs than the label does.

Weekdays, mostly. In the 30 days to November 7, Friday was the busiest day for new entry-level postings in our feed, and the weekend was quiet: Sunday saw well under half of a typical weekday. The practical rule: check for new postings on Friday and again on Monday, and use the quiet weekend to write applications rather than search. Our dates are by day, so we can't tell you the best hour.

Where you can, apply in the employer's own system. If a card links to a Workday, Oracle or Greenhouse page, you are already there. If it links to a job board, it is worth a minute to check the company's careers page for the same role: some boards forward you through extra steps, and applying direct means your details go straight into the system the recruiter uses. The job is the same either way, so don't skip a good one because of where you found it.

Nobody has a reliable number for this, us included, because it depends on your field, your city and how well each application fits. What you can do is work backwards from your own results. After your first 20 or 30 applications, put your real reply rate into the calculator and it will tell you roughly how many more to send. If the number looks impossible, the fix is usually better targeting, not more volume.

We drop known reposters from the job lists on this page and leave out pay that looks impossible, but no filter catches everything. If you want the best-paid roles first, see our ranking of the highest paying entry-level jobs. Still in college or just finished? Start with new grad jobs.