Viral Ad Network

The Viral Ad Network is recruiting a:

Publisher Recruitment Hero

You’ve spent some time studying and have become really good at / passionate about / engaged with a specialist skill. It might be that you’re:
- Highly numerate and analytical
- Great at selling stuff, love talking to people
- Methodical, organised, rigorous

How about getting paid to apply your skill(s) working for an interesting, creative, smart, well-run media company that will improve you as a professional without requiring you to wear a suit?

Tasks will be based around the following areas of responsibility:
- Researching and recruiting publishers and bloggers from key verticals to sign up to the Viral Ad Network
- Categorising publisher inventory to aid campaign planning and pitching processes
- Expanding VAN’s profile across key social media platforms – tweet, blog, get involved…
- Maintain and grow VAN’s publisher community.
- Ensuring VAN publisher inventory meets campaign targets

What you’re like
You’re probably not well-rounded (because it’s hard to be exceptional at everything). However, no matter how remarkable your talent, you will definitely need:
- A good degree. Everybody here has proven themselves academically or in the workplace. Being a graduate, you haven’t had a proper job yet so you’ll need the degree.
- A genuine desire to get stuck into the world of work, do something, make good stuff, take responsibility.
- A passion for all things digital and social. You should already be active on social media spaces, and writing a blog would be a bonus!
- An exceptional talent. We’ve got a great team in place but we’re always on the lookout for more match-winners.

Interested? Feel free to read more, but to apply mail Ally with a covering letter outlining why you think you are suitable for the position and where your strengths lie along with a 2 page CV.

Following on from my previous post on how your profile can be used as a marketing tool, I have recently encountered an interesting use of this…

http://oneideaaday.tumblr.com/

A job-hunting junior strategic planner will be posting an ‘idea a day’ on his tumblr until someone hires him. This is a great example of someone marketing themselves as a brand. It shows that he gets social media (each idea is under 140 characters so can be tweeted) and the ideas vary between medium so potentially appeal to lots of different branches of advertising.

I am looking forward to following his plight. It will be interesting to see if his ideas stay at a similar standard, get worse if he loses his inspiration for the project, or if they get better as he gets feedback and finds a more efficient creative route!

Good luck Nathanael!

(thanks to Indi.Ca on Flikr for the photo)

I just got sent an interesting request from a friend of mine – he’s applying for a job and as part of the application process he’s been asked to film a job interview talking about the company, put it on YouTube, and drive traffic to it to see who can get the most views.

The result is that thousands of people will be getting emails from friends asking them to watch a video of one of their  friends recommending the company (great way to mix viral marketing and word of mouth!)

You can seem my friend Alex telling the worst joke ever here. (it’s worth it – it’s about dwarfs)