SPP: Guardian jobs

Web/Flash Designer

• Employer: THE BOOK - PURE CREATIVE RECRUITMENT
• Posted: 21 Jan 2010
• Reference: 2323.ET
• Contact: Anna Nicol
• Location: Nottinghamshire
• Industry: Marketing & PR - Digital & new media
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Full Time
• Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum

This top design agency has a fantastic opportunity to join their high profile digital team. As a Flash Designer, you will already have some commercial experience, ideally in an agency. With your core skills in Flash, Actionscript, HTML and CSS you will take existing designs and develop them into functional websites, TV and Video. A working knowledge of ASP.net is also essential. You must posses great communication skills and be keen to meet new challenges. This exciting role will allow you to work on some of the biggest brands in the UK.

Please email your CV to info@thebook.uk.com.

The Book is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

The Book, Pure Creative Recruitment, is an Equal Opportunities and Age Positive Employer.

SPP: Curriculum Vitae

I have been developing my CV recently with the intention of making it stand out by using a personal approach. I had a meeting with Linda Brown following her lecture and with her help have achieved focus within it. Soon I will be applying for jobs and using it!

A few handy sites I found giving advice on creating a good CV are below:
• The Guardian
• Google: Applying for Internships
• Monster
• Creativepool
• Careers in Design (Beautiful website!)
  

Client Project: Interative shop window

This gives a whole new meaning to an interative shop window...for Elle MacPherson’s Intimates Store by Mindshare

found here

Client Project: E commerce

Similar to Wilder Clothing, Oxfam have a range of items that are individual. They sell a range of these products online despite the time it must take. They get around this by getting volunteer to list the items online.

Although it would be great to have items selling online at wildandwilder.com, even after further investigation. I don't think this is plausible....

PRP: Artefact#1 Evaluation

The aim of my first artefact was to find examples of where online social technologies have been encouraged to determine what methods are most successful.

I was expecting to find that higher levels of innovation and creativity can be achieved from the use of online social technologies i.e. successful companies utilize online technologies.

My research took the form of a telephone interview. I sent an email to a range of Nottingham based design agencies and then followed up this email with a recorded phone call, using a Dictaphone.

At Absolute Design, the employees are contracted to full time positions where they work standard office hours and in-house. Employees work in close proximity and are able to communicate easily and sufficiently face-to-face. A shared understanding is gained by board meetings and so it is unnecessary for relations in a work context to be built online. Blogs are too informal for their and their clients needs and a dedicated page on there website is a preferred method as it exists linked to company’s website unlike a blog.

I found that creative organisations are extremely aware of the importance of communication, negative implications of vertical hierarchy and also the influence the work environment has on employee creativity.

I found the lack of online technologies quite surprising, considering the nature of Absolute Design’s work and as the internet enables people to work from home. However, I have come to realise that it is both obvious and logical that employees won’t continue working when not at work and especially when they work in small numbers and in close proximity.

From these findings my research will focus on alternative avenues where online technologies are useful to a smaller creative organisation. This may involve companies that use business networking sites, freelancers or employees that work from home.

PRP:Small Bix Link

Small biz link are part of the Monster company. They provide a networking opportuniy for small business', alongside advice and resources covering a wide range of topics. The aim of this site is to allow like minded business people and entreupreneurs share experiences and help eachother to achieve success.

SPP: onalytica.com job vacancy

Found at geekup.com

"Onalytica is a leading supplier of services that transforms online buzz into actionable intelligence. Through analysis of what is being published and debated online we help some of the world’s most respected brands measure, understand and improve the effectiveness of their MarCom activities, improve their responsiveness and predict the future."

Front End Developer job at Onalytica Ltd

At Onalytica we work on bringing the benefits of advanced analysis of the online debate to marketeers and enterprise customers around the world.

We are currently developing the next generation platform for analysing the online debate, making it more available to a wider range of users and we are now seeking to recruit a Front-End Developer to ensure a robust, elegant and beautiful application for our clients.

You should be an outstanding front end coder with an impressive knowledge of HTML and CSS and the various ways these can be implemented in a wide variety of browsers. Of course, you will also be expected to keep up to date with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 specifications, and be able to advise on what can sensibly be implemented now.

You should have a good appreciation of design and a keen eye for detail. You understand progressive enhancement and strive to ensure UI looks beautiful in every browser, but understand that usability comes before pixel perfection.

The DOM is your friend and you’re a home writing some ground breaking JavaScript. We use jQuery but you should be equally at home without it. You’ll also get the opportunity to work with some amazing software engineers so the ability to speak .NET, C# and ASP.NET MVC would be a bonus.

Benefits of Working for Onalytica:

• Located in Central London (Centrepoint, Tottenham Court Road)
• Working on very exciting projects and technologies
• Opportunity to be recognised as one of the best in your field
• World class work environment and tools (dual, wide-screen monitors, Herman Miller Aeron chair)
• Relaxed, social work environment
• Sociable office with free breakfast and fruit, soft drinks, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360

SPP: Internships Abroad

Internoptions give graduates the chance to work in NewZealand and/or Austrailia. They say that they ensure you won't end up doing mundane jobs like photocopying or making tea and also provide help with finding accomodation and visas.

Many of these placements are unpaid and there is a charge of £800. On top of this there are accomodation, flight, visa and living costs, but what an experience it could be! I've requested some information regarding design and web design placements. But thinking if i was to do it, perhaps using some of my contacts to make things a bit cheaper.