I've filled rooms with people looking for entry-level work.
This was to be admired — entry-level work into the American dream.
They do entry-level work, create wealth and push natives into better jobs.
But with high rents, lagging federal aid and now a recession that is drying up entry-level work, the transition has become harder than ever, refugee workers say.
But enlisting the edgy and chic to do the job free deprives an entire class of people from whole categories of entry-level work.
Contact companies, especially small ones, in your field and ask if they would allow you to do unpaid, entry-level work in exchange for the experience and industry connections, Mr. Rothberg said.
Walter M. Arsenault, the commission's executive director, said that there were enough dockworkers, but that traditionally most chose not to do the entry-level work of handling luggage at the cruise-ship terminals or driving new cars off ships.
But when he started looking for work in social services, he found that "in this economy it's hard to find work with a bachelor's degree, so I searched for entry-level work in other areas, but I had no luck".
For new investors, he said, there was an entry-level work: a photograph of a young woman decked out in a 1940s-style fur stole clutching a liter of Coca-Cola ($6,500), by Alex Prager, a young California photographer whose images owe a lot to the works of Alfred Hitchcock and who, Mr. Henault noted, was in a photography show at MoMA right now.
Level I jobs involve entry-level work and Level II "moderately complex tasks that require limited judgment".
