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What a start to the New Year! New challenges, new faces and new opportunities. 2012 began in a different fashion to 2011. Instead of working behind a bar as I was last year I was with many of my friends at The O2 seeing in the new year in style; watching the likes of Chase and Status and Kasabian whilst enjoying the luxuries of the O2 VIP lounge.

All of this was enjoyed knowing that we were part of something that had never been done before- live streaming a gig on YouTube. Although I wasn’t heavily involved with this I still understood the lengths other members of the Sponsorship team went in order to pull this off…in spectacular fashion.

Whilst the music guys were working on pulling together an amazing night that could be enjoyed again and again online, myself and the sports sponsorship team were lining up ideas for 2012 alongside our on-going work setting up for our upcoming six nations campaign. January is going to be a busy month to say the least!

Now I am 6 months in I am able to have a lot more involvement with on-going Arsenal work as well. This is mainly because I understand O2’s assets in sport a lot more than I did at the start. Obviously, this helps when trying to get the most out of sponsorship. So I have been working a lot on our priority match day activations next of which is the Manchester United game.

Speaking of Arsenal, I have been to a few games already and my first of the year was a great game, the return of Thierry Henry! Now I’m not even an Arsenal fan but even I cheered when he scored that goal.

Anyway, better get moving, will be back soon.

 Jonny

In November we updated our Careers Website with some great new content from people who currently work in the business giving their stories about working with O2 and talking about their journey and career development.  We have videos from our HR Director, one of our sponsored Olympic Athletes, our CFO from Finance plus many more.

We now have new content that has gone live today.  The 3 new videos are from people who work in our offices in Glasgow Skypark.  We have Isobel McKendry who is our senior operations leader within Telesales, Carl Doig who is a team manager within Connected World and Remo Catani who is an operations manager within our contact centre.

Each of the above give a really good insight to the areas that they work in but also talk about their personal experience with O2 and how they have developed their career.  We hope you find them interesting and give you a flavour of what it is like to work for us.
So have a look at the content, see what you think and if you feel O2 could be the company for you then please have a look at our current vacancies on our website – www.o2careers.co.uk.

Lyndsey

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