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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Company: Johnson Inc.
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Undergraduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
Acounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, General Ledger, Purchasing, Benefits.
Job Requirements
Easy to get popular classes, lots of room and times to choose. Professors are smart ann interesting, grading is tough, but show that you have to work for your grade
Uppers
Good benefits, finished at 4:30pm, fun cuase it's construction, so it's changing everyday, not monotonous, company credit card
Downers
Not a lot of vacation time, high turn-over, so you are constantly training, bosses get to be like jerks.
Lifestyle
Work hours are all the time - use a cell phone a lot - because of nature of business. Company Picnic once a year, dress code is great, jeans and boots.
Compensation
Compensation is good because it's hard to find people that can keep up with the demands of construction. $16 an hour to start and then managemnent postions pay $50k and upward.
Advice to Jobseekers
Take your time, find the right positon where you fit in. Job outlook for construction is great, always building something somewhere.

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