Digital Commerce Association Careers

07/12/2015

GREAT Monday work day; invited and confirmed to attend and presents at EU Digital Youth Seminar.
Exploring and preparing a £500,000 funding proposal with GREAT professionals to support young people to access support, advocacy and info online/social media.
HAPPY DAYS!!!!

26/10/2015

Booked ticket to attend Food Matter Live at Excel London to network and meet with food industry SMEs and bushinesses to source apprenticeships and careers information.

Food Matters Live is a new annual event exploring one of the most important challenges of our time: the relationship between food, health and nutrition.

26/10/2015

The role of wholesale distributors is to buy product in bulk, at cheaper prices than a small independent buyer could negotiate, and sell and distribute them to smaller individual buyers. 30 Billion combined turnover. Variety of career opportunities for students and future generations.

A short film to demonstrate the impact of food and drink wholesalers on the UK economy. You can download the full report here http://www.fwd.co.uk/content/8/Size-and-scale/

23/10/2015

Today meet with Paul Crutchley who developed innovative and managed cutting edge pioneering digital and technological development at GSMA, learnt such a great deal.

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent indust…

22/10/2015

Excellent meeting with Head of EU e-Commerce Igloo Group discussing CIAG and apprenticeships

13/10/2015

Looking forward to meeting head of online sales and Tesco next week, exciting times and new partnerships being forged.

08/10/2015

Good meeting with head of retail at Google. Sharing of industry case studies on e-commerce and online brand management

08/10/2015

Meeting with grocery sector data and research company to discuss sharing information to share with young people and educational sector

07/10/2015

Despite support at the top, gender equality is a long way off at most U.S. companies. A study by Lean In and McKinsey reveals why—and what employees and companies can do about it.

06/10/2015

Excellent article from Lindsay McCurdy CEO . Please share.

Making Apprenticeships Work – the employers’ perspective. Last year, the City & Guilds Group convened an Industry Skills Board (ISB), a diverse group

05/10/2015

Report from government’s skills experts: UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) reveals that the number of 16 and 17 year olds combining part-time work with their studies has halved – from just over a two-fifths (42%) in 1996 to only 18% in 2014. Local labour market conditions are also discouraging young people from seeking part-time work while studying.

Report shows that young people feel that the competition for jobs, combined with a lack of flexibility from employers (on hours/type of contract) are putting them off even considering looking for Saturday

Young people are shunning Saturday jobs – opting instead to ‘play it safe’ by focussing purely on their studies, rather than enhancing their learning with part-time work.

05/10/2015

Only 61% of small and medium sized businesses have a website and just over half of these are selling their goods or services on-line (BIS, Small Business Survey (2012)). The annual turnover of UK SMEs could be boosted by £18.8 billion per year if they all sold and marketed online. Website sales in 2012 amounted to £164 billion, up from £92 billion in 2008 (ONS, Monitoring e-Commerce, 2014 . (Only captures value of website sales from firms with at least 10 employees))