Over the last 15 years I’ve been a web designer, web developer, digital account manager and owner of a digital company. I truly love what I do and couldn’t think of anything I would like to do more than what I do. I love working with our clients to innovate and create to fulfil their digital marketing needs.
A career in digital is just so much fun. Below we’ve put together our top 5 reasons why we love it:
1. Our industry is forever moving forward, progressing and evolving.
2. What we do is really creative, even when writing code you have to be creative.
3. We’re crazy about making great user experiences. We’ve got a real passion for user interaction and user experience. How people interact with what we create is integral to what we do. The real challenge is how to improve what is already good to make it great.
4. Working with fun people. My day is made up of communicating with both clients and colleague. Collaborating and discussing ideas about what we creating.
5. Career choice. Once in the digital industry you will understand there are so many different career paths and sub roles.
If you’re interested in getting involved in digital you will be interested in these 2 exciting trainee roles we have at Kick.
– Trainee / Apprentice Web Developer
– Online Marketing Trainee
Trainee / Apprentice Web Developer
Location: Maidstone, Kent
Date Posted: 29th April 2015
This is an exciting opportunity to work for Kick Interactive, a fast past digital agency based in Maidstone. Kick pride themselves on providing innovative, bespoke solutions that get our clients noticed. Kick have a wide and diverse assortment of clients that all benefit from our expert knowledge and passion for user interface design and user experience. Kick build both standard brochure websites, mobile apps, bespoke solutions and back-end management systems.
Typical clients include nationwide builders merchants and large-scale independent estate agents, governing bodies and local authorities. Kick are always working on a number of bespoke interesting projects.
As a Trainee / Apprentice developer you will be responsible for:
– Listening and Learning from our experienced developers.
– Working with our team of developers on projects.
– Supporting the team by testing and bug fixing.
– Making changes and fixes to existing websites.
– Working with clients to achieve our joint goals.
– Working with the team to develop our own web products.
The ideal candidate should be passionate about web development and user experience.
To be considered for this position you must:
– Have a degree in IT/Computing/development or equivalent work experience.
– Have a sound knowledge of PHP, Javascript, HTML5 +CSS3.
– Enjoy working with happy friendly people.
A basic knowledge in any of the following would be beneficial:
– PHP
– MySQL
– IIS
– Javascript
– Node
– JQuery
– CSS
– HTML
If you are looking for a position where your potential can really shine, then this is the position for you.
To apply please send your cv’s to hi@wearekick.co.uk Ref: Trainee Dev
Online Marketing Trainee
Location: Maidstone, Kent
Date Posted: 29th April 2015
This is an exciting opportunity to work for Kick Interactive, a fast past digital agency based in Maidstone. Kick pride themselves on providing innovative, bespoke solutions that get our clients noticed. Kick have a wide and diverse assortment of clients that all benefit from our expert knowledge and passion for user interface design and user experience. Kick build both standard brochure websites, mobile apps, bespoke solutions and back-end management systems.
Typical clients include nationwide builders merchants and large-scale independent estate agents, governing bodies and local authorities. Kick are always working on a number of bespoke interesting projects.
As an Online Marketing Trainee you will be responsible for:
– Continually learning and researching SEO and Online Marketing techniques.
– Marketing Kick Interactive via Blogs and Social Media.
– Learning and following instructions from our experienced team.
– Working to project time-lines and specifications.
– Working with clients to achieve our joint goals.
– Writing online content such as Blogs, Press Releases and Website Copy.
– Assisting in the management of projects and customer queries.
We are looking for someone who enjoys responsibility and is keen to learn about online marketing and SEO..
To be considered for this position you must:
– Have a degree or equivalent work experience.
– Have excellent writing / english skills.
– Have an understanding of twitter, Facebook.
– Have a keen interest in website and online marketing.
– Enjoy working with happy friendly people.
If you are looking for a position where your potential can really shine, then this is the position for you.
To apply please send your cv’s to hi@wearekick.co.uk Ref: Online Marketing Trainee