BLACK FRIDAY is all about bargains and buying – but have you heard of its sister date ‘Share Saturday’?
Developed as an antidote to the annual spending frenzy, Share Saturday encourages us to share whatever we can without spending a single penny.
What you share is personal to you. It could be surplus food from your kitchen, your time to help out a friend or neighbour, or your skills and wisdom to ensure someone else achieves their career goals.
Sharing at work in all forms has never been more popular.
Official figures show more than 100,000 Brits are now on job-share contracts, while 37 per cent of staff have a mentor sharing their skills, according to HR News.
So, if you want to share the love at work this Share Saturday, here’s how to get started.
1. Share a community larder
The cost-of-living crisis is hitting everyone, but
colleagues may be reluctant to come forward with their woes.
Setting up a Community Larder is a way to combat this. Ask your co-workers to bring in basic food supplies once a month and leave them in an area where anyone in need can discreetly take them.
It’s a kind way to build community spirit at work.
2. Job Share
If your life commitments mean you can’t commit to work full-time
anymore, suggest a job-share.
Job-sharing is a form of flexible working which enables two employees to voluntarily share the responsibilities and duties of one full-time job.
While companies do not legally have to grant you a job-share, many firms will look on it positively, if they want to keep the staff involved.
Plus, they get two sets of ideas for a single role.
3. Become a mentor
Mentors are people highly experienced in your field of business
who can help you grow personally and professionally through regular one-on-one meetings.
If you have good self-awareness and a substantial level of experience in your sector, you could train to mentor others and share your skills.
Ask your HR department or meet potential mentees at mentorsme.co.uk.
4. Improve your internal comms
Internal Communications is like a newspaper or website for your company.
Done right, it lets staff know what’s going on the business
and share their success stories.
Offer to write an article, create a podcast or film a video
to share good news at your workplace.
5. Share your culture
Throughout the year there are lots of days to celebrate the
different ways we live.
From Pride to Black History Month to the International Day of
Persons with Disabilities, ask your boss if you can set up an event to share more about your community to foster greater understanding between your colleagues.
Now it’s our turn to share with you! Here are the Sun Jobs pick of the week.
Senior Analytics Engineer, Spotify, London
This amazing job at Spotify will be music to your ears.
The Job: Working on the Freemium data, research and insights team, the Senior Analytics Engineer will work with data engineers and data scientists to oversee the entire user journey on Spotify and build the commerce platform’s data platform.
What You’ll Do: You’ll help to build a top-class analytics ecosystem so that data scientists in the commerce platform team are empowered to focus on gathering insights, building impactful visualisations, and crafting predictive models.
You’ll Need: The right candidate will have a track record of working in the analytics space and have experience with building robust data models for analytics purposes, reliable testing framework, scalable data warehouse design and an obsession for data quality.
Apply Now: See the full Senior Analytics Engineer job spec or view more jobs at Spotify.
Senior Wi-Fi Delivery Engineer, Liberty Global, High Wycombe
Wi-Fi is essential to help the world share hopes and ideas, so here’s how you can make it happen.
The Job: The Senior Wi-Fi Delivery Engineer role supports all Wi-Fi businesses within Liberty Global and its operating companies.
What You’ll Do: Working within the wireless performance test team and reporting directly to the principal test planning and delivery engineer.
You’ll be responsible for all new product development (NPD) testing, business as usual (BAU) testing, campaign sizing, impact analysis, stakeholder and budget management and auditing of test facilities.
You’ll Need: This role requires extensive CPE wireless performance and test delivery knowledge along with knowledge of wireless performance test tools, traffic generating tools, wireless survey tools and network analysis tools.
Apply Now: Find out more about the Senior Wi-Fi Delivery Engineer role or check out more opportunities at Liberty Global.
Billing Coordinator, WPP, London
Work for one of the world’s biggest ad firms in this exciting entry-level job.
The Job: Working on the media billing team, the Billing Coordinator is responsible for billing between £300-400 million worth of media billing each month, across 1,300 external clients as well as intercompany accounts.
What You’ll Do: You will ensure monthly billing practices are put in place to enable an efficient and successful order to cash process, and to provide a high standard of administrative support.
You’ll Need: Excellent communication skills are essential for this role along with a commercial, service-orientated approach.
You’ll also proficiency with Excel and be able to manage your own workload to ensure consistent service levels.
Apply Now: Get the full Billing Coordinator details or check out more opportunities at WPP.
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