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One of the things you notice every year in recruitment is that the first 2 weeks of December is a bit mad, but then it calms down. “no one recruits over the holidays” people assure you.

We don’t do things like that at O2.

Apart from keeping our stores stocked with our brilliant Advisors and Gurus so you can get your O2 Christmas fix, across the business this year we are going flat out to make sure we have the best possible people everywhere to make us do what we do best, serve you the customer.

Here is a quick idea of what we are doing right now, we are recruiting a huge amount of roles in Marketing so we can use our data better to give you the products you want. We are looking for people in Devices so you can get the most out of your O2 phone. We are recruiting for people in our New Businesses like M2M so we stay ahead of the game. And we are planning a huge push for the new Telefónica Digital business to go live in the next few weeks.

We are looking for people coming from all sorts of backgrounds, to be our future leaders, so we want people joining our stores to move up the ranks, we want new people joining finance to be looking to be our CFO in 10 years time, we are looking for people for the future and right now is an incredibly exciting time to join us.

So, check our job boards over the next few weeks www.o2careers.co.uk, there could be something on there for you

And Happy Holidays everyone, hope you have a good one

5:00am. Dark and cold out. Bed warm. In fact dark, cold and foggy.

Despite this I leap from my bed and into the shower (not quite, it is a good 3 meters away, but you get the gist), and away I go to the office.

Why such an early start I hear you ask? Why the uncharacteristic spring in my step? Well, if you remember in my last post I was doing loads of filming for the careers site and on the day in question I had gotten to the end of our arduous filming schedule!!! (I am sure Lucas would say filming in Tunisia for Star Wars was harder, Spielberg had a nightmare on Jaws, Abyss was filmed almost entirely underwater, but I still think 5:00am is pretty tough!)

And now, after weeks of editing, tweaks, new copy being written, new areas being added, we have our great new content for the Careers site.

So, if you are interested in HR check out the great video from our HR Director Ann Pickering and one of our Sponsored Olympic Athletes, Hanna Lawrence .

Or if Finance is more your bag we have a video from our CFO Adam Castleton where he discusses the Finance and Professional Services directorate. And from the legal team, Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell talks about working at O2 and balancing that with his preparations for the 2012 London Games.

Also we have a great interview with James Le Brocq as he talks about our exciting O2 Money business.

Interested in Consumer & Marketing, Sally Cowdry spared us some time for a chat and Feilim Mackle, the new Director of Sales & Service gave us some time to tell us about himself and his directorate.

So, lots of videos for you to check out, and we will have more coming from Operations and Retail in the coming weeks, I’ll keep you informed when they are up, hope you like them!!!

At O2 it is so easy to feel comfortable at work, I’m not just talking about the comfy chairs but the people and the dress code. You never would have thought what you wear would have such an impact on how productive you are. Especially working in sponsorship one key ingredient is creativity. This is strangely made easier through wearing clothes you feel happy in. You wouldn’t be out of place in a shirt or polo and jeans. Wonderful! But this weather is certainly not making choice of attire any easier- that time of year when it looks perfectly fine and you get outside to find its freezing!

Obviously I don’t have vast experience of working in various offices but from the few work placements I have done I can safely say O2 have got it right. Some might say the location isn’t the greatest, but once you see the office and step inside you totally forget where you are. It’s all those quirky little touches that actually make you want to get up and come to work. From cardboard cut outs of squirrels to meeting rooms with individual themes like Rugby or the O2 Academies.  This is what makes working at O2 on Bath Road one of the easiest and best places to stay from 9-5.

Although I say 9-5, I have slowly started realising that you often find yourself staying till much later. At first glance this may seem terrible but I found myself at the office till 8:15pm last night and was perfectly fine with it.

As I have said before the mindset here is very much; work hard, play hard.

Jonny