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Following on from our blog update yesterday, please find some pictures of our networking event that took place last week. We have some crowd shots and also a picture of our fantastic speakers who were Abi Bracken - Head of HR Operations UK, Simon Devonshire - GM Small and Medium Business and Fiona Davidson - Resourcing Manager UK.

The event was a great success with over 100 people turning up to find out more about working at Telefónica.  I am sure it won’t be our last one so watch this space to find out about more events in the near future. 

Lyndsey

The thing is, when all the wine had been drunk, and the last duck roll and cocktail sausage had been eaten we could look around and realise everything had gone really well, and all the stress had been for nothing.

If you invite them, they will come.

OK, maybe I didn’t have someone whispering that to me, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t true.

Way back last summer we decided to do an event at our main HQ in Slough, get people in who may be interested in joining the Telefónica family, ask our current fantastic employees to think of some friends they know who would be perfect to join us and then we can tell them about us. Explore Telefónica sounded like a good name. Simple . . .

Yeah, it wasn’t that simple.

Of the things that didn’t go to plan I will mention only a few things, meetings being arranged for different countries so we had no speakers, name badge holders never arriving, our air ship wanting to escape, lights shutting off unexpectedly.

But you know what, we sorted all of those things out with the minimum of fuss, even the lights were easy to sort out.

I have to say the event itself was great, we had over 100 people come along, all wanting to know more about us and all finding out that we aren’t just a mobile phone company, we are a full on digital company on a journey that means we want to make what we do the best around, to give our customers the best possible experience and to continue to be at the forefront of new products and customer satisfaction.

I am sorry if you didn’t get the chance to come to our event, but from the reaction of those that did it won’t be our last one, I hope to see you at the next one.

Harry

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!!!