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February 21, 2006
Brush off that CV - they're hiring
Got some Internet experience? It might be time to brush up your CV and look for an employer who's going to appreciate your knowledge, talent, dedication and super personality. (Hmm. Maybe there's money to be made writing job applications?).
According to the Financial Review [PAY WALL], the fact that companies like Yahoo!7, Google, ninemsn, Fairfax and News Ltd are actually making money out their online activities - despite a hopefully temporary hiatus in local online ad revenue in January - means they've embarked on a frenzy of hiring. Even Amazon.com is active in the local market, joining other companies looking for people who have real experience in online management, sales and production.
According to Rhys Hughes, national sales director at Xpand IT, MBA-quality professionals are entering a field that once attracted "teenagers in jeans and T-shirts". Amazon's looking for someone to head its Australian operation.
Amazon's hunt for an executive to run an Australian operation [Hmmnn. The local book industry is going to love that!] is top of the list for would-be Internet suits, ahead of the post of CEO for the new Yahoo!7 joint venture, (which must be making life interesting for Cliff Rosenberg, head of Yahoo!'s local operation), then there's a CIO for ninemsn, a replacement for Fairfax Digital COO Nick Leeder, who these days is a Murdoch man. And Fairfax Digital is also recruiting, for a business development manager and content manager, among other things. Hmmn. Content manager. Maybe we should apply. We could learn to wear a suit.
Posted by cw at February 21, 2006 07:36 AM
Comments
I long for a local Amazon. It will eat the parochial, small thinking competition.
Yay!
Posted by: kolya at February 21, 2006 10:12 AM
Wow! Amazon is coming to Australia? That's great news.
S.
Posted by: Simon at February 21, 2006 10:32 AM
I agree. Amazon entering the local market is long overdue. The local book market is poorly served by the local vendors. I still prefer a bricks and morta r store (visit almost any suburban Barnes and Noble in the US!) but this will still be better than what we have.
Posted by: Mark Harrison at February 21, 2006 10:57 AM
Living in Queensland would mean that I would have to learn to wear a shirt first.
Posted by: Stuart at February 21, 2006 01:44 PM
I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about Amazon opening a local online bookstore. While it's not completely out of the question, it could be that it's just looking for someone to manage the sourcing of Australian books for the US and UK operations, and/or work on the Booksurge backlist printing operation that it's partnering here with Thorpe-Bowker.
Posted by: cw at February 21, 2006 03:41 PM
XpandIT are awesome and that guy Rhys is really really good looking too. He should be a model.
Posted by: anonymous at July 25, 2006 10:32 AM