Looking for a website administrator

Tried something new today. Instead of going to the normal recruitment websites, we put it out on Twitter that we are looking for someone to help us administer our website business.

We are interested to see how this goes. Can this viral approach to recruitment match the professional recruitment websites? Very much an experiment for us.

We did manage to stuff it up at first. Asked people to Direct Message us if interested, with the intention of then sending them an email address to which they could send their CV. Stupidly forgot that people cannot Direct Message you on Twitter unless you are following them first. Doh!

So, corrected the process and have people simply responding to us on Twitter to allow us to then send them an email address by Direct Message to which they can send a CV. Funny how something that was meant to be easy has started to get complicated.

Of course, we didn’t think that people would want a full job description before applying. Why the hell do you want that? Isn’t mag nation and the word Website enough? Apparently not. (That was tongue in cheek folks. Please don’t bag us for brand arrogance – bad humour is fine).

So here is the job description (unfortunately, nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds):

Stuff you will be doing:

• Adding lots of new magazines, books, t-shirts and stationery items onto the back end of our website
• Managing the images and pricing of the products on our website
• Confirming subscriptions received and entering into our system
• Responding to the feedback and enquiries received from our website
• Customer service in relation to subscriptions and online purchases
• Coordination with the dispatch team (person – but team sounds more impressive)
• Looking after subscription renewals
• Other ad hoc websitey stuff

Hope this recruitment approach works. The one thing we haven’t said is that whoever gets the job would be working on something fun with a passionate team of people around them.The role is envisaged to be 3 days a week and you have to be in Melbourne. Oh… and if you are interested, please email us your CV to info@magnation.com

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