{"id":331,"date":"2019-11-08T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/marketing\/?p=331"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:51:49","slug":"6-reasons-why-the-choice-is-the-york-marketing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/2019\/11\/08\/6-reasons-why-the-choice-is-the-york-marketing-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Six reasons why the choice is (the) York (Marketing team)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stuff in my life means that I\u2019m moving away from York and so I\u2019m coming to the end of my time with the Marketing team. I don\u2019t know how many people can say that they\u2019re genuinely sad to leave a team, so I feel lucky to be able to say that I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Before I go, I thought I\u2019d try to get down some of the reasons I\u2019d suggest to anyone who\u2019s thinking about applying for a job in Marketing at York should absolutely go for it. I\u2019m going for 6 in honour of how many years I\u2019ve been kicking about campus, and of the hexagons that cover the Hive – the building where the team is based. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Cake <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s simple. It\u2019s easy. It\u2019s a necessity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s one thing that makes working in Marketing just that little bit sweeter, it\u2019s the sheer amount of cake that ends up in the Hive\u2019s kitchen. The team has a few keen bakers, and a lot of people with birthday leftovers. That means that there\u2019s a pretty endless supply of delicious treats waiting in the kitchen for that morning\/lunchtime\/afternoon\/any time pick me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Slack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ability to send quick messages to colleagues has made working in the Marketing team one of the easiest and most fun jobs I\u2019ve had.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes life easy when colleagues are working from home, when you just need someone to help me find that word I can\u2019t quite put my finger on and when we\u2019re really proud of a bit of work and want to shout about it. Also, it\u2019s a great place to announce that there are treats in the kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Asana<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asana is a great project management tool that the team uses to organise all of its stuff. It\u2019s also essentially an online to-do list that sends flying unicorns across your screen whenever you tick off a task. It\u2019s made organising my working life for the past year and a half an absolute dream. It\u2019s a magical place where you can find out what everyone\u2019s doing and add updates to what you\u2019re doing and tell teammates what\u2019s going on with a project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure there are people who\u2019ve done good reviews about Asana online. I\u2019m sure that Dan, the Asana guru of the team, will soon write a blog about how Asana makes the team\u2019s work 10000% more efficient than it would be without it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I want to say is that it\u2019s great and I love it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, I\u2019ll never get over the fact that the \u201cTab + B\u201d function is literally just there in case you fancy filling your screen with cats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. (Virtual) high-fives <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Working life is busy and sometimes stressful, which means that it\u2019s not always easy to find the time to appreciate what we\u2019ve achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marketing team has not one, but TWO Slack channels dedicated to shouting about  work that\u2019s recently been completed and other great stuff – like when we receive positive feedback from colleagues around the University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means that everyone in the team has a place where they can pat themselves on the back for something they\u2019re proud of, and everyone else can applaud their hard work! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5. Learn something new everyday <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a great attitude towards professional development, and that shows through a continued commitment to putting on regular events that everyone can get involved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every week, there\u2019s some kind of opportunity to teach yourself something new; whether that\u2019s by watching an inspiring TED talk during a Learning Lunch, hearing from a colleague about something cool in a Knowledge Share or attending the bi-monthly Internal Skills Training sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this job, I\u2019ve learned more about content than I ever thought there was to know – and I\u2019ve only been in the team for a little over a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6. A super supportive atmosphere <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Easily the best thing about working in the team is that I\u2019ve never felt like I was alone. Everything that I\u2019ve described above – yep, even the nerdy project management software – makes working in the team feel like you\u2019re really all in it together, fighting the good fight for better content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support isn’t just limited to the work of the team either. Earlier this year me and another member of the team decided to run 10 miles for charity and the rest of the team were there with us every step of the way. They put up with a month of fun \u201cactivities\u201d to help fundraise and we even managed to pull together a special Halloween themed pub quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve not been in too many teams, so I can\u2019t say for definite, but I\u2019m pretty sure that there are not many teams that have such a great sense of community and I\u2019ll really miss being part of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuff in my life means that I\u2019m moving away from York and so I\u2019m coming to the end of my time with the Marketing team. I don\u2019t know how many people can say that they\u2019re genuinely sad to leave a team, so I feel lucky to be able to say that I do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-meet-the-team"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/Marketing-team-banner.jpg?fit=825%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"custom_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1573206709:144"],"_thumbnail_id":["343"],"_edit_last":["144"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["1"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}