Anyone Looking for a job?

[Eck]

Just had this pointed out to me by a colleague, no idea why they thought I would have any interest in this?

Sky are looking for a poker manager.

link below:

http://sky.recruitmax.com/MAIN/careerportal/job_profile.cfm?szOrderID=2757


Full/Part Time Full-time 
Location Osterley, London 
Description Sky doesn’t do things by halves. From The Premiership to High Definition TV and Broadband, Sky shakes things up by offering its customers more quality, excitement, entertainment and value than they are used to. Next is Sky Poker.

As Sky’s Poker Manager based in West London, you will bring with you excellent knowledge of the Poker market, Poker events, live TV and international Poker personalities. This is a chance to drive the product development, strategy and management. You’ll ensure this product exceeds the expectations of both a live TV audience & online poker players, and your proven expertise in product development will enable you to successfully launch this innovative new product with a bang.

What you will bring to Sky:

Having worked within the poker market (preferably on-line), in live Poker events or in managing a Poker room, your confidence and self-starter approach will mean you have the skills to succeed. Commercially astute, you know what players want and what works with Poker, and you’re hungry to work within an innovative and entrepreneurial environment. This position will be part of the launch team to champion the Poker channel and website internally within the Sky network, and your engaging personality means that you will network effectively.

So what do we offer in return? Well, there’s an attractive salary and excellent benefits package including free Sky+
 

Don't know if anybody is likely to be interested or not but thought I would be lacking in my blondeness if i didn't bring it to the attention of the masses.

[mikkyT]

Ohhh! But I doubt that helping out in cincins is the sort of experience they are after lol.

[Poppet7]

Ohhh! But I doubt that helping out in cincins is the sort of experience they are after lol.

It's in london anyway!

Nah, I think I'll have to give this job a miss

[mikkyT]

Id move for that job. lol.

[KeithyB]

So what do we offer in return? Well, there’s an attractive salary and excellent benefits package including free Sky+
 

Free Sky+???      That bit made me chuckle.........looks like Sky reckon it'll sway anyone's who undecided about taking the job   

I mean how much can that be worth in terms of the overall package!

[byronkincaid]

I woulda gone for it if they'd offered free HD

[BlueWolf]

fuck me i might apply lol

[Poppet7]

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[AlrightJack]

I was approached by Sky for this very same job over a year and a half ago. After considering and reconsidering and finally deciding to take the job (via a headhunter) they then claimed the job was no longer available. Meanwhile, I had indicated to my current employers that I was going to leave, so when the Sky job fell through my position at Blue Square became untenable. I had to resign and leave.

Anyway, Blue Square, to their credit immediately took me back on board as a freelancer so all was not lost, but I have taken a massive financial hit over this last year, thanks to a ******* of a headhunter, who goes by the name of Tim Deighton from McCann Ericsson recruitment. He didn't have the forsight to check whether the job was still available before he made me the final offer.

Anyway, I found this particular line in the job spec hilarious:

"Sky doesn’t do things by halves. From The Premiership to High Definition TV and Broadband, Sky shakes things up by offering its customers more quality, excitement, entertainment and value than they are used to. Next is Sky Poker."

They've been wanting to set up poker for the past two years so why has it taken a company that 'doesn't do things by halves' so long to pull their finger out and just do it?

As I understand it, the job I was approached about went to someone else. So now that person has presumably left and over a year later, Sky are still nowhere near getting their poker offering up and running.

They want to offer poker through interactive TV boxes, but the speed of such boxes is clearly not up to supporting a poker product that would be acceptable to poker players, or they would have launched it by now.