The hat: Flexible, casual, competent
The elevator pitch:
Interesting part-time work for (and with) bright helpful people
The work:
At short notice, days or half-days in our Bristol studio. We're a 6 year-old creative business with about 15 full time staff. Often we need help to get all kinds of things done.
The work we do includes social software, e-democracy, and viral games and film clips. It's fun, we're nice people, and we work for a wide range of clients.
The responsibilities:
These are the 4 roles we most often need help with:
- Testing: we have to check our websites and games do what they are supposed to, and that they make sense. Testers work very closely with our developers and project directors to find and document problems.
- New biz: the guys who find us new and interesting work often need help with research, calls, mailings and suchlike. It's fun because our products are great.
- Content champions: this means helping get our games and films out to an audience by seeding them on the web, and then tracking their performance. Also you'd help us find the best stuff out there to put onto our top-secret Viral Content Network!
- Studio junior: general saviour of the world on a daily basis, work could be anything from helping update websites to getting the ice creams in (the Boss pays).
The things at which you're awesome:
You'll be regularly available to work during the day, with between 3 hours and 3 days warning. It's flexible, so if you couldn't work we'd try the next person on our list: we don't want to own your life.
You're probably a student at Bristol or UWE. That's definitely not a requirement - it's just how it's worked for the past few years.
Your spelling is good (is it?), and you can spot when words in the wrong order are. You can also add, subtract, divide and organise stuff - the basics really.
You don't need to be massively technical, but you need to be confident around computers and the web, and interested in learning how to do things right.
Reliability is the other side of flexibility: if you agree to work we'd want to see you on time (obvious I guess, but important). I always say this, but if we're going to do a job, lets do it well, with flair, care and exuberance.
The rewards:
Money: depends on the job and budget, but from minimum wage up to about £6.50 an hour.
Experience: if you want to work in media, stop padding your CV with clubs and ents and get some relevant experience. It helps. Plus we're a small but fast-growing business which is a fun place to be.
If you're at all good, you're in the number one spot to get hired full-time: it's our favourite way of recruiting.
The people you'd work closest with:
- Alex and Heather, our project directors
- Katrina and Helen our studio assistants
- Lisa, our Quality Assurance Manager
- Ant, Jess, Owen and Alan our developers
- Andy, one of our directors
- Ben, Gez, Kirk and Ian our consultants & new biz guys
The view from the coal face:
wooooo this sounds nice - Helen Bentley, flexible, casual, competent