Really simply all you need to do is complete one questionnaire and return to us with a photo and we can get you updated online. There is one questionnaire for offering career tips click to download (while profiling your company) and one for job profiles click to download (while profiling your workplace).
If you have already made videos then we would love to include these or if you are interested in making some we can help.
•Allow your staff to say how great it is to work for you, while showing off your facilities, there is no better or more influential testimonial.
•Have additional pages on leisurejobs where people can link back to your jobs at no extra cost.
•Be branded as a ‘Champion of Careers in Leisure’.
•Provide potential employees with a fuller understanding of the job specifications and realities of working for your organisation whilst promoting benefits and thus helping to reduce irrelevant applications.
•Start web 2.0 recruitment in a controlled step by step fashion.
•Develop content you can use all over the web.
In particular we would like to encourage you to try video (I am sure you can make one better than our effort at the top of the page shot in 2 takes in under 10 mins on a Panasonic Lumix pocket camera). We will upload your video onto Youtube and your Career Champion Profile.
Below you can see some international leading companies (KPMG, Proctor and Gamble and IBM), making simple career information videos, no lighting, cameramen, video editing capabilities just a camera and an employee.
KPMG
Procotor and Gamble
IBM
Deutsche Bank
Keep reading to find out more about me!
Education & Experience
Educated to degree or equivalent:
Yes, Spatial Design
Does your job require vocational qualifications:
No, however there are a few I would not mind having which would help
Number of recognised vocational training courses you have obtained:
Zero
Previous roles which gave you the experience you needed:
Sales for Direct Line
Freelance Design and DTP
Marketing Manager for Croydon YMCA
Sales and Marketing Manager for thesportsweb.net
New Media Manager Sportsweb.net
Marketing Manager Leisurejobs.com
How many years relevant work experience have you had before your current job:
11 years
The Job
Employer:
Leisurejobs
A typical working day:
I get in just after 8am and log onto the server and look at the previous days stats, looking for anything that has gone well or gone wrong.
I then catch up with my team ensuring that everything is on schedule in line with the weekly, monthly and quarterly schedule. Including email design, client web design, technology product development, written resources and search engine marketing.
I will then check all my affiliates are referring people and look at ideas for new partners with the site. Our strength as a site is working with other companies to ensure we are in front of as many professionals as possible.
I will usually have one or more meetings to attend on a daily basis with marketing mediums, technology providers, trade shows, colleagues, making presentations or visiting clients.
I try to make solid slabs of time when I am going to be able to concentrate on: Product development, marketing plans, measuring marketing performance and ammending campaigns, business development and creative work. However as my responsibilities include IT and telecoms as well as marketing and new developments a straight ten minutes without being involved with someone.
Why you love what you do:
I love the variety of my job, being involved in companies from inception to developing mature arms of the business. I love the comradely involvement with my fellow workers both in our company and with those we work with. I like visiting people in other companies and finding out how they work. I like being able to have a cracking idea and getting it developed.
What are the key factors to doing it well:
There is a strong element of creativity mixed with control. You have to be able to leave no stone unturned in hunting for new and better ways to attract people.
You have to listen to people, understand their needs and help them find a route their goals.
Words of wisdom, what have you been told or learnt that will help others aspiring to your job and any top tips:
You have to love what you do, if you do not you can never achieve your best.
For those that want a job like yours, are there any points that should be seriously considered before embarking to achieve this goal:
You have to be able to multi task. This alone can be exhausting. If you leave a meeting about web architecture for SEO, then have a budget meeting, inbetween people are letting you know about IT problems, then you need to help someone with desktop publishing, someone calls you to try and sell you a cheaper telecoms solution while you are doing this. A client asks for a small amendment which could easily be forgotten and your inbox is growing fast. And the big trick when the dust settles, prioritising what you need to do and getting on with it.
The Person
How did you decide to follow this career path, what attracted you:
I have always had a creative streak but am too practical and ambitious to be satisfied without a commercial element to what I do. A lot of my friends are in similar industries, which helps being able to let off steam by chatting through problems with people who can understand and offer advice.
What character traits do you have that suit you to this job:
Energetic, people person and optimistic.
Your top professional feel good moments:
Seeing the site Leisurejobs.com over take other media to take the most frequently visited single leisure site passing the 200,000 unique users in one month level.
Standing on stage in front of thousands of people on Park Lane with Des O’Connor to hand out an award.
Being recognised by colleagues as making a good contribution to the businesses success.
Anything else you want to add:
I like the people I work with, I generally get on well with people, however it is really important in a working environment that there are people you can trust and communicate with or else when the pressure is on it could be very stressful compared to exciting.
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