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Posted on May 28, 2013 by Caroline

Jobseekers, here’s a few ways of connecting with us

You may be wondering about getting ahead regarding work once you graduate and are making sure that you’re standing out from the crowd in the hope of landing that all important new job? OR You may already be on the all important career ladder and wondering about other new opportunities out there for you? Wired Sussex are here to help and you are probably already aware that we manage a local specialist Jobs Board where you can sign up for Job Alerts to make sure you don’t miss out on any opportunities. As well as registering for specific alerts for specific job types, …

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Posted on May 2, 2013 by Caroline

Our Jobs Board is more than a jobs board

Many of you use our Jobs Board and already know about some of the main benefits of doing so (your job is delivered in a number of ways to the right audience in the local community and beyond), but I bet there’s a lot of you who aren’t using our CV database, the Recruiting Tips, or know about what I do in the background to support recruitment and nurture skills on behalf of our members. For example have you ever thought of us as a gateway to engage with local universities? I work really closely with them to provide information …

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Posted on April 24, 2013 by Caroline

The unabridged version of my Argus article (23/4/13): Employment growth in the local digital, media & technology sector

Employment growth in the local digital, media & technology sector Caroline Morris of Wired Sussex Working for Wired Sussex I’m at the heart of the local digital, media and technology hub. It is my job to help our member companies find the right people with the right skills to grow their businesses. The digital sector is all about talent and it is one of the strengths of Brighton that talented people do want to be here. Most of the digital companies that Wired Sussex supports are small and many of them are start-ups. They are driven by people who are passionate about …

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Posted on April 22, 2013 by Caroline

Developing Young People’s Skills in Digital Media; how Brighton University student James has found working with the Cherokee and UK schools.

By James Shreeve, Digital Media Arts student at the University of Brighton At first I was somewhat apprehensive about the Cherokee nation project as it would not only move me away from our creative comfort zone but would also require working with children and teaching them programs that I have only just recently mastered myself so that would be rather interesting to say the least. For a while the project itself was alive in email chatter between work colleagues. But unbeknownst to us, the deadline for the project was swiftly moving forward so it was time to get to work …

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Posted on March 21, 2013 by Caroline

The growth of the local games sector; from newborns to teenagers..

We’ve all heard about the successes of the games sector, especially with the ‘Black Pebble’ companies that have formed as a result of the Disney’s Black Rock office closure. I thought it time to recap and take another look at how they’re doing, especially drilling down on some stats I’ve been examining, and to hear how the studios are managing their workforce to fit in with their growth…. Firstly I can see that over the past 12 months a healthy 22 companies have been using our Jobs Board to post a total of 46 games vacancies (of which over half …

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Posted on February 27, 2013 by Caroline

Wired for Sound 2013 – Even more fun was had at our 2nd charity DJ compeition

Wow thank to all for coming on Saturday to our charity fundraiser and Wired Sussex members DJ competition and social. I think I can safely say that everyone involved had a lot of fun! Here’s an account of the night from one of our lovely sponsors, that not only took part in DJing, but also helped raise a chunk of money for charity too! Digby is an SEO from No Pork Pies a digital agency in the heart of Brighton, but at night he also goes by the name DJ-igby, Wired for Sound DJ. Last Saturday the core fibres of …

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Posted on February 13, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 3rd of your nominated charities – Sussex Macmillan Cancer Support Centre

Following on from my recent blog posts about our ‘Wired for Sound‘ event’s charities, I’d like to present a bit more detail about the last of the 3 local charities local in which our DJ competition and social will be supporting; ‘Sussex Macmillan Cancer Support Centre‘ We are Macmillan Cancer Support. One in three of us will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will ever face. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or a loved one has, you’ll want a team of people in your corner supporting you every step of the way. We provide practical, …

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 2nd of your nominated charities – FareShare Brighton and Hove

Following on from last week’s blog post about our ‘Wired for Sound‘ event’s first nominated charity I’d like to present a bit more detail about the 2nd local charity in which our DJ competition and social will be supporting; ‘FareShare Brighton and Hove‘: FareShare Brighton and Hove: Fighting Hunger, Tackling Food Waste and Improving People’s Chances. At FareShare Brighton and Hove we do three amazing things. Firstly we tackle food waste by collecting quality surplus food from the food industry and saving it from landfill. With this food we help support over 50 organisations in the Brighton, Hove, Worthing …

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Posted on January 29, 2013 by Caroline

‘Wired for Sound’ fundraiser event: a bit about the 1st of your nominated charities – Grassroots Suicide Prevention

You should have all heard that we’re running our 2nd ‘Wired for Sound‘ charity event in which Wired Sussex members can give DJing a go, ‘Stick it On’ and battle it out for the prestigious title of ‘Best DJ’ and enjoy a more social style of event for the sector. You hopefully caste your vote along with others to chose which 3 local charities should benefit from the proceeds, and I’d like to present a bit more detail about the 1st charity; ‘Grassroots Suicide Prevention‘. Did you know that Brighton & Hove has one of the highest suicide rates in …

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Posted on January 14, 2013 by Caroline

ReCreate and The FuseBox – what it means to me!

It’s not often you get to work for an organisation where there’s opportunity to turn the work that you do into something that will really make a difference to the sector as well as the local community. I’m really lucky to be working for Wired Sussex at a time where we’ve managed to win some big projects and to have a hand in helping drive the biggest positive changes for the sector I think Wired Sussex has ever seen. Big projects with EU funding obviously come packaged with a lot of guidelines, deliverables and complex wording, but here’s my take …