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Automotive.com has the following temporary part-time position (s) open and invites qualified applicants to submit their resume indicating their interest in the following position:

Online Content Specialist(s)

Irvine, CA

Brief Description:

We are looking for real automotive enthusiasts to assist our web producers in converting existing print content to a web ready format.  Additionally your editorial voice may also be leveraged in our online community efforts, including forums and blogs.

Duties include working closely with the marketing and data teams to accurately identify and rename vehicle photos and data. Candidates will also be uploading information into a content management system and working hands on to update our actual websites.  Successful candidates will be given training and expected to work efficiently with minimal supervision to meet predefined goals. This is a perfect summer/fall position for students.

Hours per week: 20-40.

Compensation: $10.00/hour

Length of assignment: 90 days or longer as work flow dictates.

Requirements:

-          Good verbal and written English communication skills

-          Ability to carry out instructions quickly and accurately

-          Have good interpersonal skills and are able to work in a team

-          Ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision.

-          Can work under pressure, pay attention to detail and keep motivated when doing repetitive tasks

-          Computer experience with standard software packages including spread sheets

-          Knowledge of automobiles is preferred

-          Experience with Photoshop, Quark and HTML a plus!

-          Prior experience with a content management system a plus!

Responsibilities:                                             

-          Vehicle photo identification and renaming

-          Extract content from quark files into a web ready format

-          Vehicle data renaming

-          Data entry

-          Other duties as assigned

Enthusiast Categories:                                             

-          Trucks - Street/Off Road

-          Motorcycles - Sport Bikes, Dirt Bikes, Crusiers

-          Street Rod/Hot Rods

Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply by submitting their resume of interest to: jobs@automotive.com  Please refer to “Automotive.com Online Content Specialist Positions” the subject matter of your email.

Pete:

$10.00 per hour????

I don't mean to offend you, but I have to pay my gardner $30.00 per hour and he doesn't even know what a hard drive is!!!!

What's Jimmy getting? $15 per??? Now I know why he takes all that Honda Kickback money! Honda knows how to treat a journalist!

WTF...goon you pay your gardner $30 an hour? YZCrazy pays his $.30 an hour...what is this. Goon i hate to say it, but you must have hired...well not the right kind of people.

It's true that $10.00 per hour does not sound like a lot of money to a lot of people.  But you have to think of the job as a summer internship.  Most of those are unpaid. 

This would be a great opportunity for someone who wants to get a foot in the door with magazine publishing and learn about web producing.  For the right person this would be a great way to spend a summer, and the pay would just be icing on the cake.  

"Sweet" Pete Posted:

"It's true that $10.00 per hour does not sound like a lot of money to a lot of people.  But you have to think of the job as a summer internship.  Most of those are unpaid. 

TRANSLATION:This would be a lot of money in any 3rd world country! (Granted, not a lot of 3rd world countries have Computers, Televisions, Video Games, electricity, running water, sewer systems, etc.

This would be a great opportunity for someone who wants to get a foot in the door with magazine publishing and learn about web producing.  For the right person this would be a great way to spend a summer, and the pay would just be icing on the cake"

TRANSLATION:This would be a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for Dirt Rider (Mr. Pete in particular) to get some cheap labor during the Summer and get the DR website back in shape!

That would be good money for me, but I dont know if they want to hire a 16 year old. Most of my friends that have jobs this summer are getting around 8 bucks an hour. Isnt minnimum wage around 6 and a half?

Minimum wage in CA is $6.75 per hour!

Goon...you crack me up...the 3rd world country one got me..lmao.

feel fortunate min. wage here is only 5.15, i can t even get a job till i turn 16, and even then it will only be for 6.00 maybe 7.00 an hour

Hmm, just stay in school. You'll make more money Soggy. Im not working this summer and I am 16. But I am taking an art class over at the junior college to get highschool credit for art as well as college credit for when I get there.

Dude:

That is impressive! Seriously, get all the schooling you can get! Education is the key to a good future!

really u cant work untill ur 16? wow. im 14 & im working. more than min wage 2! min is 5.15 i get 5.75. alot more huh.

oh that aint half of it, legally I am nopt allowed to work where they have  microwave,LOL, plus a bunch of other stupid little rules

Where do you live? Thats strange. Where I live, if you are younger than 16, you have to get a work permit from your school counselor or something.

yeah that too, in southern ohio