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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 November 2, 2012 by Caroline

Why I think you should respond to all job applicants

by Caroline Morris of Wired Sussex I just want to give my two pence worth on this as I feel quite passionate about the subject and also maybe a bit protective over the jobseekers out there. Today I received a hand written letter in the post asking if there are any job opportunities at Wired Sussex. It’s very unusual to ever get anything like this by snail mail these days, especially when there’s only an address to respond to. It would be easy to dismiss it as like everyone else,we’re pretty busy here. My initial reaction was probably the same …

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Posted on August 29, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Brighton Digital Festival creates careers opportunities too!

Written by Kelly Alyse, PR intern for Fugu PR, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I’ve always been quite proactive when it comes to looking for work experience and jobs. If I’m bored you can guarantee I’m looking at jobs (or pictures of Ryan Gosling), usually just out of interest, but when my degree in Film Studies at the University of Sussex in May this year was coming to an end, it was time for me to apply and figure out what I wanted to do with my life after Sussex. I’ve had quite …

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Posted on August 21, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Young Rewired State 2012

Written by Emma O’Sullivan, as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month I spent last week running the Brighton outpost of Young Rewired State – a nationwide hackweek for young people, where under-19-year-olds have four days to put together a digital product that utilises open data with a focus on creating applications that will change the country for the better. My co-organiser and partner in crime was Edd Parris of NixonMcInnes, and Cogapp and NixonMcInnes kindly sponsored the event. We were based at the Lighthouse for our four days of coding, and they were incredibly supportive and sympathetic about …

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Posted on August 6, 2012 by Caroline

Au’Guest’ Blog post – Words from joint University of Brighton winner of the Wired Sussex prize for ‘best final year digital media project’

Written by Danny Daley, one of the student winners of the Wired Sussex prize for ‘best final year digital media project’ as part of the Wired Sussex guest blog month Danny on the left alongside his ‘business brother‘ How I came to be part of the project During the third year of my degree I was given the opportunity to undertake a placement year in London. I was placed within the marketing team of Axis Europe and one of my responsibilities was to liaise with digital agencies. One of the problems that I discovered when seeking digital agencies was finding …

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Posted on July 17, 2012 by Caroline

Why employers should always advertise salaries

Our Wired Sussex members often ask me to give them tips on how to put together the best possible job descriptions and I’m more than happy to help, but what they don’t often realise is just how crucial it is to display the salary. More often than not employers hide the salary information on job ads or list it simply as ‘competitive’ as they want to prevent the details being leaked to competitors or to see what they can get for their money. What I don’t think they realise is that in doing so they’re ultimately deterring jobseekers from applying. …

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Posted on September 2, 2010 by Phil

>Is It Like David and Goliath?

>Over the past few months on various blogs that I follow and LinkedIn groups that I am a part of there has been much discussion regarding job boards and the need for them to innovate or die. There has been a feeling in the recruitment sector that the national generalist job boards are overpriced and you are more likely to spend more time sifting through CVs that are either not suitable, not qualified or lack what the advert states. In my time as a recruiter I have used both the major job boards like Monster and Totaljobs, niche job boards …

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Posted on August 5, 2010 by Phil

>No Agencies? But I have the Perfect Candidate for You?

>For those of you that follow the Wired Sussex Twitter feed you will be aware that earlier this week we asked this question: “We get a lot of jobs posted where people stress no agencies – what is it that Sussex media companies don’t like about recruiters?” The responses we got were on the whole less than favourable, so I thought that I would follow this up with a more in-depth look at why this is. The main threads of the responses were: cost, hassle and lack of knowledge, and I will now try and put a case for both …

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Posted on May 6, 2010 by Phil

>Monthly Recruitment Round-up

>With the 1st month of the new financial year already over and summer (hopefully) on its way we thought it would be good to look back over last month and what has been happening on the job front here in Sussex In 2010 the Wired Sussex Jobs Board has seen a marked increase in the number of vacancies posted. Following up with the companies that are recruiting it is obvious that a large number of the roles posted are new hires and that there are definite green shots happening in the media sector in Sussex. April of 2010 saw 57 …