This is an incredibly difficult post to write but it has come at the right time. vox-popPRcareers was originally intended to be a platform for graduates in PR & marketing to get the job that they want. Unemployment in the UK is at an all-time high – where are graduates going to be? PR & Marketing are two industries that so many of you want to be part of, and I hoped my website would have helped you from when it first came along.

I remember the early days of this website: it was actually my masters project for journalism at City University and after I finished my MA, I morphed it into recruitment and focused on finding internships and jobs for graduates.

I loved nothing more than finding jobs for graduates whether that was surfing through Guardian’s job pages and posting links or contacting HR managers myself to try and get them to advertise on the website.

And judging by things, at vox-popPRcareers height, there were over 1,700 unique visitors per month and there are currently 104 email subscribers and over 1,300+ Twitter followers. I am truly grateful for this support.

Things have changed sadly. As some of you know, the website was attacked in December by hackers and it has not truly recovered because I don’t have the resources to get rid of the malware and start again from 0. I don’t have the resources to hire another assistant to keep the website alive and also market demand for PR & marketing jobs seems to be falling in terms of lack of advertisements. vox-popPRcareers is me myself and I and I have been running it alone for almost 2 years, only recently did I hire a temporary assistant to help out.

In 2011, I spent time and money trying to get people to advertise marketing & PR vacancies on the website but it was in vain for the most part, because companies did not seem to be interested in a small website like this even though I know many graduates read this and check to see what we had posted. This was frustrating for me but put simply, vox-popPRcareers could not compete with the Goliath that is Guardian Marketing & PR Jobs. I am someone who knows when to quit while I am ahead and Guardian Marketing & PR Jobs is the Beyoncé of the jobs industry, so it was difficult to get companies to look at vox-pop as a viable contender, not that I was trying to compete with them but essentially that is what happens because the Guardian also posts graduate job vacancies.

The past 5 weeks, my assistant was working on the website which is why there were regular updates on Twitter and here. The hack attack we experienced in December 2011 really put us out of business which is why I felt so sad because I did not understand why someone would want to attack my website. However, my assistant was only contracted to work temporarily and like all things, we have to be able to eat and I just do not think I can keep vox-popPRcareers going as a viable business when so many doors were shut in my face, to the point where it was not bringing in the money it should have due to lack of advertising interest and slow affiliate sales.

All in all, I am happy that I tried my hand at creating a recruitment website and I hope I helped graduates find new ideas for jobs to search on.

I wish everyone who has ever read this website or used it to find work the utmost best in their careers.

God bless you all,

Kagem Tibaijuka

PS – If any of you want to get in touch with me, you can email me at kagem(at)kagemtibaijuka.co.uk or tweet me @KagemTibaijuka.

£22,000 – £25,000 per annum, inc benefits

2 applications

Job type: Permanent, full-time

Reference: 21111184

I’m delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity to join my client in the Bishop’s Stortford area.  They were formed in 1992 and they are now at the forefront of their market within the UK.  They have achieved their position as a market leader due to their professional approach and knowledge of the industry.

My client is now looking to recruit a talented Marketing Executive to basically head up their Marketing function.  The successful candidate will be tasked with the management and development of the company website to ensure that the company is promoting its services at all times.

With the majority of companies moving into digital marketing, my client is looking for the successful candidate to have experience in this field.  They are looking for candidates to be able to display the following skills/experience:
• Previous experience in a similar role
• Online marketing experience to include: SEO, Google Adwords, Analytics, Webstats
• Social Media Marketing: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube
• Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver etc
• Reliable and conscientious
• Pro-active personality
• Stable career history

In terms of qualifications, my client is looking for the successful candidate to be a graduate – ideally within marketing.

There will be a generous starting salary in the region of £22-£25k per annum plus company benefits.

My client will be interviewing and appointing someone as soon as possible – with interviews to be conducted within the next 7 days.

If this sounds like the job for you – please contact Bob @ The Dove Partnership today!!

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Function:  Argos for Business

Location:  Milton Keynes

The Role

The Argos for Business Product Marketing Management role is to generate demand and support the conversion of this demand into boarded customer for the Argos for Business Products.

Home Retail Group

Home Retail Group is the UK’s leading home and general merchandise retailer, with sales of over £5.8 billion in the last financial year. Our Argos and Homebase brands form part of an expanding network of stores throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with many exciting new developments in the pipeline.

As a Product Marketing Manager your main responsibilities will be to:

• Defining what products (propositions and bundles) will be offered to our identified target customers (Sectors, segments) and defining how these customers will be reached. (Channels)

• Setting the price for the Product proposition and bundle. Within the boundaries set by the Product Development team and the Product Catalogue.

• Defining how the customer will be introduced to the product (e.g. Advertising, telemarketing/business)

• Supporting the Sales team in the conversion of these customers.

• Managing the Product Marketer(s), taking responsibility for career development and team development

• Working with key stakeholders in AFB and wider to ensure that Product Marketing delivery is highly effective, fit for purpose, clearly focussed, streamlined, and communicated.

• Owning the process and working with Product Development and the Sales teams, the role holder will own, develop and plan strategies to deliver sales through the development of the customer proposition, product bundles and is ultimately accountable for the demand generated and the conversion of customers.

• Supporting the planning and control and the maintenance of the Product Catalogue, developing and implementing and managing the new business development process.

As a Product Marketing Manager your skills & qualifications will ideally include:

• Graduate calibre, with sound demonstrated understanding of Product Development lifecycles and specifically B2B/Ecommerce products and services.

• Ability to think strategically, develop new initiatives independently and manage a business development process.

• Creative and innovative thinker, prepared to challenge the status quo and embrace change.

• Very customer focussed and aware of B2B, B2B2C, B2B2E customer market trends.

• Results driven, self motivated and able to take the lead as required.

• Experience of working collaboratively and gaining buy in through building trust and sound relationships.

What you’ll get in return:

As well as the usual company benefits, which include, 24 days’ holiday, share save, discretionary annual bonus, private medical insurance and company pension scheme, you will be work in an exciting environment with the potential to develop your skills for a career that fits with your own aspirations.

Home Retail Group operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership.

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Job Summary

Salary: £20k – £25k per annum

Employment Type: Permanent, Full time

Industry: Marketing & PR

Location: KINGSTON UPON THAMES, Surrey

Company: Archway Personnel

Job ID: 469583

Our client is a high profile organisation who is a leader in their field. They are looking for a graduate with at least one year’s work experience to join their marketing team. This is a great opportunity.

Duties:

• Drive business to hit quarterly and monthly target on unit sales, turn-over and market share for designated products.
• Run promotions to hit target
• Manage all product pricing with Product Manager’s authorisation
• Support Product Manager to achieve targets
• Initiate launch of all new products
• Brief internal team on product, price and promotion information
• Act as first point of contact with Sales team and Communications team.
• Procurement and control stock of product samples
• Maintain master database, pricing & promotions functions

2. Main tasks

• Drive business to hit monthly sales target with daily communication with Sales, Logistics and Planning teams.
• Monitor daily sales, margin, order book and supply performance for specific product category
• Organise Trading meeting together with Sales to identify gaps and opportunities for product category to ensure monthly sales target/budget is achieved. Create action plan based on team consensus.
• Chair monthly Product Management meetings inviting Sales, Business Planning and Communication teams to identify gaps and opportunities for product category to ensure quarterly sales target/budget is achieved. Create action plan based on team consensus.
• Oversee monthly sales forecast process, consolidate results to build a monthly product plan for input into production planning tool. Create draft of sales budget split by customer and product to generate individual sales persons’ targets
• Collect product information from European headquarters and distribute to UK team
• Support Product Manager to achieve target.
• Support Business Planning to create RR (Rapid Response) planning.
• Run promotion plan with authorisation of Product Manager to hit target
• Coordinate communication of all product-related information to appropriate internal teams
• Ensure Sales and Communications team have all necessary product knowledge & materials to be able to support the delivery of strategy and sales targets.
• Support Sales to ensure better communication with customer team regarding product- related information to deliver target.
• Support Communications team to optimise communication with press regarding product- related information
• Maintain competitors’ comparison chart

• Coordinate Product Samples
• Sample handling: manage the movements & allocation of product samples received, including invoices and delivery notes, ready for return when requested
• Develop, maintain & communicate a reliable process & system for registering, loaning and supplying products to Area Sales Managers, industry professionals and events
• Liaise with other offices regarding sample products including returns, firmware upgrades, mock-ups/dummies etc.

• Manage promotional information
• Update database regularly with new promotions, expired activities, price list changes, events & other relevant data
• Liaise with Product Managers regarding new promotions, terms & conditions, claim dates, expiry dates
• Project scheme: running the communications side of the scheme to Dealers and Key Account manager and website

• SAP, Pricing & Promotions Functions
• Material Master Data Maintenance
• Promotion entries
• Factor Matrix management
• Price List updating

3. Level of authority/discretion

• Control product pricing with authorisation of Product Manager
• Manage expenditure with authorisation of Product Manager
• Holding samples and being responsible for their use, return or disposal

4. Profile

Education

• Degree (2:1 or above)

Professional skills & Know-how

• Basic understanding of marketing
• Understanding of customer segmentation and targeting
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to write marketing briefs
• Ability to work with and achieve targets
• Ability to use MS office at intermediate level.
• Excellent networking skills

Personal skills

• Drive and initiative to achieve objectives
• Proactive and quick to react
• Desire for personal development/improvement
• Empathy with enthusiast/hobbyist mentality
• Confident, active listener who acts decisively

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Sector: PR & Communications

Job reference: AEPRBT_581339

Location: Oxfordshire

Job type: Permanent

Salary: £19000 – £25000 per annum

Agent name: Liz Snell

Date posted: 26/01/2012

It’s exciting times at our clients PR premises, so we’re looking for talented PR executives to join their exceptional consumer and business teams. The PR Agency has a real passion for providing clients with excellent PR services.
You could be looking for your next step on the PR ladder or perhaps you’re looking for that rare entry level PR role, either way our client has space to accommodate you and help launch your career.
If you have some PR agency experience – b2b or b2c that would be ideal, but we are also looking for bright graduates who have a relevant degree in PR or English (or other relevant subjects). Or maybe you have some clientside experience under your belt and want to get into the fast paced agency world.
Clients are attracted to our clients’ intelligent approach and great ideas and equally staff want to join and stay with them, as do suppliers. Journalists and bloggers want to work with them because they know they deliver. It’s a win win situation!
We are looking for an Account Executives (and Account Managers) to join the team due to volumes of increased business and client wins.
Depending on your area of expertise will depend on what client base you will work on.
This is an urgent requirement so don’t delay in contacting us with your CV – this is a real career opportunity not to be missed!
Xchangeteam is an award winning Recruitment Company, with offices in London and Bristol and direct contact with the best and most innovative marketing departments and agency teams in the UK. Well connected, innovative, committed to our chosen careers, you will find your recruitment consultant has a great deal of knowledge and connections in the area. Happy to help with advice, suggestions and market knowledge.

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This is a truly unique and rewarding opportunity for a Sales and Marketing Graduate to join an IT Solutions company based in Lincoln. If you are a graduate that has the ambition and drive to push forward your ideas to drive forward company marketing plans & strategies then this is the opportunity for you. You will be in a position of real responsibility where you will work to develop and implement an effective marketing plan with the aim of growing the presence of the company.

Role: Sales and Marketing Graduate
Salary: £12, 000 (plus Commission £20,000 OTE)
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Along with implementing a successful Marketing Strategy, the successful candidate will receive extensive training to help build our client’s business through gaining new customers and accounts. This will help you to achieve goals of increasing sales turnover and the number of customers working with our client. The extensive training programme will allow you use a range of in-house systems, expose you to project management methodologies and the opportunity to regularly interact with senior managers in blue chip companies.

Your aims for the role will be to:
•Developing a successful marketing plan to achieve the company growth ambitions
•Follow new business opportunities and set up meetings
•Assist in identifying requirements
•Plan and prepare presentations
•Establish and maintain working relationships with clients

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level, preferably in a Marketing or related discipline. Experience is not required, however, we are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and driven candidate who is willing to communicate ideas and learn within the role. You will be a confident communicator in both a face-to-face and phone-based environment and possess a good knowledge of Social Media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked In, and have exciting ideas of how these can be used to promote our client.

This is a hugely rewarding role that should not be missed out on, so do not hesitate to apply now.
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Contract type: Permanent

The Graduate Role is for a ‘Junior Digital and product assistant’

*The role is highly likely to involve oversees travel, a great opportunity for any graduate.

The role will operate on an initial 3 month probation stage, which will be paid a competitive rate.

The application process:

Applicants are to provide a covering and CV. At this stage creative cv’s would not be required although websites and links would be beneficial.

Applicants will be contacted after the closing date, if not before this. The role is truly a rare opportunity and this s reflected by the closing date. We are looking for the right candidate.

Junior Digital and product assistant:

PS Group, a leading national fitness brand is looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful individual to join the product development team in an exciting new project.

This Role is a fantastic opportunity for a creative, articulate and passionate recent Graduate.

A strong passion and understanding of Digital media is a must. Strong Communication and writing skills would be highly recommended.

Successful Graduate candidates will gain the opportunity to work closely within a strong team helping to deliver an exciting global project. With the nature of the role

traveling abroad is likely to be a strong possibility within the role. This will be with senior members of the team.

The Job Profile:

Responsibility for managing and developing the social platforms of the business .
Evaluating marketing opportunities and recommending areas for improvements
Assisting with marketing campaigns
Assisting with Creative writing
Assist with creative briefs
Assist with program developments
Market research

Attributes:

Ability to prioritise
Highly organized and efficient
Strong passion for Sports and Fitness
Excellent telephone manner
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Marketing experience an advantage
Intermediate IT skills (especially Word and Excel)
Works extremely well under own initiative
Works well under pressure

Benefits:

This assistant role will be a fantastic opportunity and experience for anyone who is truly passionate about sports and fitness with creative flare.

The successful candidate will join a fun, vibrant collection of companies, focusing specifically on one truly exciting growing project and brand.

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