recruitment

Steering Your Own Ship - How to build a successful career in Digital

Would you like to know what the smartest people in Digital are doing to achieve sustainable career success? Come along to this event to get some top tips on “Steering Your Own Ship – How to Build a Successful Career in Digital”. This event is part of the Brighton Digital Festival

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Date: 29 September 2015
Location: The Werks, Brighton Media Centre, UK

Boom In Tech Recruitment

A report by KPMG and Markit illustrates hiring in Britain’s tech sector is almost at its highest for three years, demonstrating its resilience in the tough economic climate. 

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thefuturestory - Today 2014

thefuturestory - Today 2014 will explore how the information we hold today can provide solutions for our future – on a personal and a business level. Including a panel discussion with experts from IBM Interactive and Monster.co.uk as well as practical discussions this event will help us to understand how we can turn data into impactful knowlege.

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Date: 7 May 2014
Location: RADA Studios, UK

Outsourcing HR: The Benefits

Corporate HR departments are busy. Aside from personnel and recruitment they may deal with payroll, tax, training, legal compliance and more.

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Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in London

SRSC hosts speakers and case studies from leading brands including, Marriott Hotels, NPR, LinkedIn, Pandora, Groupon, Sodexo, UPS, AON Hewitt, HP, IHG, CareerBuilder, PNC, and others. Visit our website for further agenda information.

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Date: 24 June 2014
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel- London West End, UK

How to raise £3 million for your startup (Job and Talent)

Join our breakfast networking event with Juan Urdiales, CEO and Co-Founder at Job and Talent. Our guest speaker will share his experience with Job and Talent, a new disruptive model in the talent recruitment industry.

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Date: 7 March 2014
Location: The Bakery, UK

Useful Paranoia

Quiet is the New Loud

When I consider the world of PR, I see confidence and extroverts. Shining the same torch on IT, I find shyness and diligence. The middle ground of social media combines these two in a very unusual way that can produce uncomfortable compromise or magnificent insight.

Some of the best traditional marketeers I’ve worked with lose their confidence when asked to improvise on a live, conversational platform - especially when bombarded with advice such as “keep it natural, don’t sell, accept negativity”. Equally, those people I know who could recode Facebook overnight shy away from using the interface they create, finding it hard to trust their voice in an amphitheatre.

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Social Media Week London is Hiring: Sponsorship, Partners & Content

Baby Humps at Work (c) Sam Michel.

As the saying goes, "many hands make light work". Don't know about light, but we can definitely promise exciting, enticing and engrossing roles working with the Social Media Week London team here at Chinwag.

Like the picture above, enthusiasm and inquisitiveness with a can-do, brainiac, professional approach is what we're after. Interested? Know someone? Check out the info below.

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Get Involved in Chinwag's Careers Day @ Digital Shoreditch 2013

BL-NK

Chinwag has rejoined Digital Shoreditch to bring you the biggest and best Careers Day so far, taking place on Friday 24th May. 

The aim is to find and fill roles within the digital industry.  Here's a scoop: news of the location and a preview of the first companies who will be exhibiting.

Get your free ticket here.

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Save The Date: Chinwag's Careers Day at Digital Shoreditch Fri 24th May

Job Hunting

We are excited to announce the 3rd Chinwag Careers Day on Friday 24th May, in association with Digital Shoreditch 2013.

After the success of previous events, you can expect a bigger and better schedule focused on finding and filling jobs in the Digital sector.

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If You’re Hiring New Staff, Apply Yourself...

Cover Letter Rage

Remember the easy ride? Recruiters do. Place advert, await deluge. That’s over, replaced by a more balanced distribution of power between applicant and hirer.

Take my specialism: engineering. Employers now need to convince candidates why they should apply for their jobs over others. Businesses must now market themselves to potential employees, avoiding the most common obstacles to recruitment success:

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Chinwag's Careers Day at Social Media Week London 2012

Hundreds of graduates, jobs seekers and experienced workers looking for that next challenge will be flocking to the Careers Day to meet the likes of Nokia, Financial Times, Imagination, Tempero, News International and more, so don't miss out. REGISTER NOW - it's free!

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Date: 28 September 2012
Location: The Vinyl Factory Soho, UK

Climb the Job Ladder: Chinwag's Careers Day at #SMWLDN Programme Announced

Careers Day

Are you a job seeker in the digital and social media sector? Eager to get yourself infront of leading brands and agencies? Feel you could do with some advice on improving your CV or Portfolio? Interested in getting an inside view into how recruiters percieve your job profile?

Sounds like you need to sign up for Chinwag's next Careers Day at Social Media Week London, supported by JobisJob UK on Friday 28th September!

Hundreds of graduates, jobs seekers and experienced workers looking for that next challenge will be flocking to the Careers Day to meet the likes of Nokia, Financial Times, Imagination, Tempero, News International and more, so don't miss out. REGISTER NOW - it's free! Check out the Programme below!

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Space for SMWLDN HQ - Can you Help?

Lego Builders

The return of Social Media Week London (SMWLDN) 24-28 Sept will see a number of changes to the way SMWLDN works including the creation of several content-specific hubs and the launch of the SMWLDN work experience programme.

We're on the hunt for some space for the SMWLDN HQ in the run-up to September's event to house the team including the work experience folks and our fantastic volunteers that between them mean we can keep the majority of SMWLDN events free for everyone to attend. Can you help?

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Candidates: 7 Great Questions to Ask at Interview

Probably the most bizarre job interview she has ever had.

You want the role, the interview is going well. You've dealt with the inevitable questions about your faults, where you see yourself in five years' time and, if you had to describe yourself as a fruit, which one would you choose, and why?

There's a pregnant pause and the interview catches your eye and asks "Do you have any questions?". Here's seven cracking interview questions to seal the deal...

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