Your first job after school, found and read right
New grad, graduate, entry level, junior: type one and Carir keeps your search to early-career roles, including titles such as Associate and Analyst I, with senior roles left out.
Early-career roles are titled new grad, graduate, entry level, junior or associate, and many coordinator, assistant and analyst roles are early too without saying so. Search the role with one of those words, read the requirements rather than the title alone, and apply in a posting's first days. On Carir's job board the level you type is a must, so senior roles stay out.
What Carir does for an early-career search
- The level you type is a must: new grad, graduate, entry level and junior read as one early-career level, which takes in titles such as Associate and Analyst I.
- Senior, principal, director, head and staff-rank titles never fill an early-career search.
- Near misses shown separately, each with what differs from what you asked for.
- With Pro, daily Matches: roles employers created in the last 24 hours, matched to the roles, place, level and pay you set.
- Tailoring that never invents experience: your internships, projects and coursework, in the posting's words.
A first-job search that works
- Pick two or three target rolesA focused search finds more good roles than a wide one, and lets you tailor properly.
- Search with a level word, then withoutUse new grad, entry level or junior first; then search coordinator, assistant and analyst titles plain, and read the requirements.
- Apply in a posting's first daysA new posting has the fewest applicants it will ever have.
- Contact one person per top pickThe hiring manager, a recruiter for the function, or someone in the role: four sentences, one small ask.
Guides
Entry-level and new grad roles: where to look, and the titles that hide them
The searches that find early-career roles in nine kinds of work, from sales and engineering to product and project coordination, and the early roles that never say so in the title.
Entry level, junior, associate, new grad: how to read a posting's level
What the level words in a job title mean, which ones mislead, and what to do when the title says entry level but the requirements ask for years of experience.
Why the newest postings deserve your first hour
Why a posting's first days are the best time to apply, why the dates on job sites mislead, and a one-hour daily routine built around new roles.
Who to contact about a job, and how to find them honestly
Who to write to about a role, in order; where to find them on public pages; why a published address beats a guessed one; and a four-sentence note that gets read.
Straight answers
How many jobs should I apply to?
Why the number is the wrong target, what to measure instead, and how to raise volume without lowering quality.
Should I apply if I do not meet every requirement?
Which missing requirements matter, which do not, and how to decide without guessing.
Why am I not getting interviews?
The four places an application usually fails, how to tell which one is yours, and what to change first.
Questions people ask
What counts as an entry-level job?
A role built for people early in that exact job: titled new grad, graduate, entry level, junior or associate, or asking for little or no experience. How to read a posting's level covers the words that mislead.
Should I apply if I don't meet every requirement?
Often, yes, when you meet the core ones. Our answer page shows how to tell core requirements from wishes.
Do internships count as experience?
Many employers count internships, co-ops and substantial projects toward experience, and postings rarely say which. Put them on your resume with what you did and ask a recruiter when it matters.
Is Carir free for new grads?
The free plan has no time limit and includes the job board, alerts and the application tracker. Pro adds scored daily matches and tailoring, with a 7-day trial that needs no card and ends on its own.
Two ways in
The free plan never ends: the job board, alerts and the application tracker. The Pro trial adds today's matches scored against your resume and tailoring that never invents experience; it needs no card and ends on its own.