Reply to: Hiring a student on a summer placement

[TheFaQQer]

I hear AtW might be letting one go soon.

Don't mention AtW - the thread will be deleted if you're not careful.

[doodab]

Having seen it, I've decided there is no way I would wear your company t shirt.....

[d000hg]

Anyone ever done this?

I hear AtW might be letting one go soon.

[shaunbhoy]

Not that low level. Brand awareness stuff.

In that case, I'm OUT!!

sasguru

[d000hg]

I will wear your company t-shirt for £30/hr, as long as it's not going to be embarrassing.

Embarrassing for who? How ugly are you?

[Spacecadet]

Well I wont be asking for man on man oral sex.

In that case I'm sure doodab will be breathing a sigh of relief!!

[Clippy]

Not that low level. Brand awareness stuff.

[minestrone]

I will wear your company t-shirt for £30/hr, as long as it's not going to be embarrassing.

Well I wont be asking for man on man oral sex.

[doodab]

Not that low level. Brand awareness stuff.

I will wear your company t-shirt for £30/hr, as long as it's not going to be embarrassing.

[minestrone]

When you say marketing do you mean delivering leaflets?

Not that low level. Brand awareness stuff.

[dinker]

When you say marketing do you mean delivering leaflets?

[minestrone]

I managed a summer placement coder for a while, he was pretty good, got him in to write jUnit tests for an application I was working on, by the end of the summer he was one of the better developers in the team. All down to my teaching of course.

[d000hg]

You get what you pay for, of that I'm sure you're well aware.

Rubbish. If you plot a scatter-graph of price Vs competence you can probably see a trend, but that's a statistical thing not a direct correlation. You can find students at uni who can be more useful than £500/day contractors, they're just not the norm... cue interviewing and so on.


I've been tempted to do this (not marketing but coding), my old uni actually ran a program they'd pay the students minimum wage to come and get experience working.

[jmo21]

Got a bit of experience in marketing as I worked in the industry for a while, this work will be pretty much donkey work but something they can get their teeth into

Promotinal work rather than front line sales.

fair enough, I'd def block the social networking sites though

[minestrone]

Got a bit of experience in marketing as I worked in the industry for a while, this work will be pretty much donkey work but something they can get their teeth into

Promotinal work rather than front line sales.