Carve is looking to hire a Junior Consultant to join our busy team. We’d love to hear from you, so please do send your CVs and applications to adelaide@carveconsulting.com. Please feel free to share this with anyone you feel would be interested.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Overview:

You have extensive experience in social media and are actively participating in a wide variety of social media activities such as blogging, community development and management, social bookmarking, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other web 2.0 platforms. You enjoy providing bespoke, tailored and cutting edge social media strategy solutions to clients, overseeing projects and guiding implementation. You have razor sharp industry knowledge and are passionate about translating this to the benefit of your clients. Highly credible and confident, you feel comfortable about being the consultant-expert in a room of senior corporate managers. Most importantly you realise that effectiveness often stems from organisational change as much as creative and coherent thinking.

Description:

- Strategic development of client portfolio

1. Social media research (client audit and market analysis)

2. Participation in pitch/proposals writing

3. Pro-active new account management including admin and technical support

- Client account / project management

1. Strategy implementation (resources management, tools training, channels creation and content supervision)

2. Support in client training

3. Contribution to our monthly social media reports for clients

- Carve’s social media activity management

1. Participation in social media on behalf of Carve (including regular blogging)

2. Monitoring and engagement with Carve’s community

3. Knowledge sharing

Skills:

- Passionate about social media

- Up to date industry knowledge

- Exceptional traditional writing and grammatical skills and flair for using “social networking speak” and online jargon

- Excellent verbal communication skills with ability to present ideas and information clearly

- Attention to detail and outstanding organisation skills

- Self-motivated

- Team player

- Ability to work to tight deadlines and be calm under pressure

- Desire to expand skills fast

Great little film this,  put together by the  Career Player team, looking at “Careers 3.0″ (with a rare sighting of me wearing a suit near the end).

I would have loved to have this to hand at the recent KNOWHOW Graduates  skills event we organised with London Borough of Tower Hamlets.  What was really quite scary was how little the attendees (all recent graduates) knew about job seeking online  -  very very few had heard of LinkedIn, and none that I spoke to were aware of sites like WikiJob.

It begs the question - what the heck are university careers officers playing at? The answer, one supposes, is that careers offices are now (like everything else) ‘profit centres’ - meaning lots of sponsored emails from fee paying corporates to select students, very little grounding in the core online networking and brand building capabilities 21C Graduates will need to survive and thrive.