We are seeking a graduate to join us as an SEO trainee. Contract is three months to start out with opportunity to extend if it is going well.
We are looking for someone who can be pushed through a fast paced education programme in order to become a fully fledged SEO. It’s a great opportunity with a very intense learning programme and is not for the faint hearted. So if you are firing all cylinders and you’ve got good neurones to rub together then please read on.
The ideal candidate will have:
• A degree, this can be marketing / digital marketing related or a degree in another un-related subject • An EXCEPTIONAL ability to learn. We show you once, you retain the information and then run with it yourself • Ability and interest in self learning, we can only teach so much, the rest is in the passion you have • Highly motivated – 100% wants an opportunity in digital marketing and wants to keep it • Exceptionally organised to keep on top of deadlines and to meet client demand – if you like making to do lists and keep calendar entries then this is exactly what we need • An interest in the field of digital marketing and has been learning off their own back and experimenting with things • Acute attention to detail • Ability to do data analysis – the numbers on the page are not just statistics, they tell a story • Highly creative – thinking outside the box • Hard working and a high level of intelligence • Highly professional written & verbal communication skills • Ability to use ZOOM and chat programs such as Telegram
In exchange for your time we can show you items such as:
• Strong technical SEO skills in on page / off page SEO • Strong understanding of meta data, canonical / no index tags, robots.txt, XML sitemaps, keyword research, crawl errors, structured data, page load speed, website migrations, link building (legitimate), back link removal, technical audits, • Experience in using tools such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, SEMRush, SEOMoz, Screaming Frog • Good excel skills for reports • Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS • Experience in using Wordpress, Shopify
The candidate must own their own computer.
We are a small company with a good culture where work life balance is important. We have fun and laugh a lot but underneath all this we have strong core values such as respect, kindness, diplomacy and a strong will to succeed. We are a bright bunch that delivers, rarely drops balls and turns up each day raring to go.
Please send your CV as an attachment and write the covering letter in the email body detailing the following items – what your degree is in and which grade you received, one example of when you had to learn something quickly and get on with it yourself, two examples of strategies that you used to stay organised when completing your degree or current work role and three compelling reasons as to why we should consider you for the role.
