Moloney Search is a graduate headhunting company based in London – currently they are working with an extremely well-known retailer to recruit high-flying Business students to join their fast-track management program to start in September 2011.  

They are specifically seeking ambitious and high-performing students with good extracurricular involvement who are interested in strategic management, trading and marketing rotations.   It will be an excellent opportunity for a graduate with a strong commercial interest, great leadership qualities and the drive to succeed to be a very visible part of a FTSE 100 company. 

If you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity to build your career in retail, please get in touch with Philippa at Moloney Search on 0207 368 5103 or send your CV by email on pn@moloneysearch.com

thebluedoor has recently won the 2010 Best Business Award for Best Small to Medium Size Business. The judges recognised its commitment to staff development and high-quality service. Full feedback can be found at http://www.bestbusinessawards.co.uk/feedback.asp

thebluedoor is looking for a high calibre graduate as an Account Executive to support the members of the account management team in the delivery of PR (on- and offline), as well as marketing for clients.

Key Tasks:

• Act as a liaison point with all suppliers to thebluedoor in connection with delivery of communications consultancy and products including internal suppliers of communications resource

• Support and strengthen the relationship between thebluedoor and its clients through professional, creative and timely delivery of communications needs – within agreed budgets and agreed schedules.

• Support existing relationships with clients; from the initial brief to delivery of projects coming through known and new contacts.

• Monitor costs for each project, within allocated budgets over each communications project, in liaison with the account management team.

• Support and strengthen the relationship between thebluedoor and its media contacts through professional, creative and timely delivery of their communications needs – within agreed schedules.

• Be an ambassador for thebluedoor at all times, adhering to smart business attire, delivering excellent counsel, high quality and creative work, and taking a proactive approach to all activities

• Demonstrate ongoing commitment to stay abreast of ongoing PR and digital developments.

• Demonstrate ongoing commitment to stay abreast of industry news relevant to thebluedoor’s customers (new and prospective).

• Support the account management team in the management of client relationships to include:

• Attending regular meetings with clients as needed
• Maintaining and updating reports for clients (status and meeting reports)
• Keeping management team updated on workload and priorities
• Timely and accurate delivery of work
• Supporting account management team through adherence to administrative and reporting practices

Key Accountability:

• Support the account management team in creating and managing effective and timely communications solutions.

Please send your CV to aharrison@thebluedoor.com if you wish to apply.

thebluedoor is the sponsor of Digital Surrey, a community for like-minded people wanting to stay up to date with the ever changing digital landscape and meet up, network, learn and share. For more information or to register as a member please visit www.digitalsurrey.co.uk

Tonight Paul Harrigan, Maria Jose Serres, Natasha Allden and myself will be presenting a seminar to the University of Southampton School of Management about the new Marketing DNA. We will demonstrate 1) how the content of our courses has been informed by recent developments on marketing practice, and 2) how the learning process and employability are supported by digital profiles and activities such as reflective blogging. Maria and Natasha will showcase their own examples of best practice.

We have a guest speaker on Digital Marketing Communications this week – @Howard_Scott . Please have your questions ready, and you can tweet them in advance if you wish (using the hashtag #howard). We hope to video the session to store in Blackboard and also incorporate comments and questions from remote participants.

Howard joined Sequence in September 2009 as Digital Marketing Director, having held a number of key posts in leading London agencies since beginning his career in digital in 1996. His role covers all areas of digital focusing specifically on brands and private sector clients for campaign-based activity with a particular focus on mobile app development and social media. Howard recently headed up the team producing the Snow+Rock “Pathfinder” Windows Phone 7 mobile app which was chosen by Microsoft as one of only three launch partners, and is used as the global best-practice case study for app design on the platform.

As Head of Digital Marketing at The Marketing Store in London, he spearheaded many prestigious campaigns, most recently for Vodafone, McDonald’s and Shell including a global online sales promotion and viral campaign featuring Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher. Prior to this he was Senior Digital Project Manager at TEQUILA\ London, part of the TBWA\ group of agencies, where he ran the entire digital production facility for the agency and worked on new business strategy.

During his time in the industry Howard has also worked with Canon, Adidas, Barclays, Intel, Chevrolet, Prudential, The Sun and Virgin Trains  – to name but a few.

We are expecting some 30 students from all over the world to arrive at the University of Southampton this morning to begin their Digital Marketing studies in this exciting and rapidly developing area.

I’ve enclosed the Induction slides where I plan to talk through the rationale of how students should approach their work in order to best make sense of the vast amount of information they will be exposed to, and how to develop their digital profiles to help manage and showcase their work for the benefit of future employers.

The first module – starting on Thursday and taught by myself and Paul Harrigan – is a basic introduction to 21st Century marketing to get everyone up to speed.

We are looking forward to meeting everyone

This week I’ve been busy learning about developments in social media metrics and putting together this new session for my undergrad students today:

Feedback welcome

Alan Rae and I presented to the 3Market Social Enterprise Event at the University of Southampton today. The slides are here:

Thanks to funding from the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group, Alan, Lorraine Warren and myself will be developing this introductory session into a series of more specialist workshops to be delivered both offline and online through 2010. Watch this space…

It’s that time again…my slides for the first session are below. I’m looking forward to guest sessions later in the term from @howard _scott  and @tomchapman

I hope everyone enjoys the unit – please feel free to leave your feedback in your comments to these weekly posts.

Digital marketing students might be interested in the following roles:

1. Toolkit Websites employ over 20 people, with about 12 in their office in Carlton Crescent, Southampton. It is a fast growing and dynamic web design agency with an innovative business model, providing websites for SMEs around the country.  The company is looking to improve its online marketing, and is looking for an intelligent marketing student, (preferably on a masters course) to come and give some insight and advice on digital marketing, lead generation, SEO and other innovative communication. This short, focused project might be of real interest to someone doing a marketing course at the university for a paper or a dissertation.

Details of the roles available and how to apply can be found here:

http://southampton.gumtree.com/southampton/72/52094672.html

http://southampton.gumtree.com/southampton/72/53089072.html

http://southampton.gumtree.com/southampton/89/52094389.html

2. Lloyd Davis is looking for a part-time intern (3 days per week for 3 months) working as an assistant and apprentice social artist, to start as soon as possible. Lloyd’s portfolio of social art projects includes:

The Tuttle Club
tuttle2texas
Centre for Creative Collaboration
Tuttle Consulting

He needs help with research, administrative and project management tasks. This is an opportunity for the job holder to expand their thinking about the social applications of the web, social enterprise and the use of social technologies in organisations.

The successful applicant will need to be comfortable writing for the web, expressing themselves in their own voice on blogs and social networking sites, but also speaking to people face to face and on the phone. They will gain exposure to Lloyd’s network of social media professionals, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, artists, and academics. Experience of organising without an organisation and exploring the boundaries of how organisations need to function in a networked world will also be obtained.

Lloyd says: “ This is an unpaid position, although a zone 1-2 oystercard will be provided and I’ll buy you lunch. There’ll also be the occasional beer if you like that sort of thing…”

Email Lloyd on lloyd.davis@gmail.com and tell him why you’d like to work with him, and what in particular you think you can offer to the projects listed above.

Mike Lister (Principal Business Fellow at the School of Management) will be presenting this Seminar at the University of Southampton. Mike was one of the experts consulted by the Office of Fair Trading as they looked into the future of where digital tracking is taking society.

Venue: Room 1019, Building 58a (School of Management Executive Education Centre), University of Southampton, Highfield Campus.

Internet use is so pervasive across society now that using it is considered normal behaviour.  But consumers are surprisingly unaware of how much information about them is collected – either online or offline and how this gets combined.

Currently the main application of this knowledge is to entice you to buy products and services that you otherwise might not have bought.  You use Google but do you realise how much they know about you?  German authorities are so concerned they have just told Google to stop tracking website visitors without their consent.

In the UK we seem less anxious.  But privacy and the data about you that companies capture and sell on to others will become a hot topic.  Not least because of the business opportunity this represents for the legal profession.

Date: Thursday 28th January 2010. 6pm Registration, 6.30pm Presentation, 8pm finish.

To book your FREE place please email busdev@soton.ac.uk with your contact details and numbers of seats you wish to reserve.