Jobs at Semantic

Semantic is a proudly small team, and we add to it rarely... but if you are interested in working with us get in touch. Who knows what might happen!

Awesome Web Analyst and Marketeer

Pop quiz. PPC, analytics, multivariate testing, usability, pagerank, stories, web copy, structure, Seth, conversions, goals, landing pages, segmentation, white hat, bounce rate, meta-data and WOMMA. How much of this do you understand?

Supplementary question. Are you fun, friendly, talented, helpful by nature, articulate, happy and of good standing? Do you have great experience, backed up by references from real people? You do? Brilliant. Then we'd love to hear from you.

Semantic is looking for an awesome Web Analyst & Marketeer to impress, challenge and charm us.

We've been creating brilliant web sites for nearly ten years, but we also deliver consultancy, develop strategy and build online businesses for our wonderful client's. It's an extraordinarily exciting, vibrant position to be in... right at the point where the magic happens.

If you know that buzz, love the numbers, and reckon you can make us even more effective, drop an email to ialsomakecoffee@semantic.co.uk.

(Just two quick pieces of advice before you click. First... don't rush. Spend some time on the site to see if you think we'll fit. If you're right for us, we'll wait. Second. Don't tell us how good you are... show us).

And good luck.

Is this the best application letter ever..?

As an example for aspiring applicants we include here one of the outstanding application letters of all time... match it if you can.

to Ludovico Sforza, Regent of Milan

Most illustrious Lord, having now sufficiently seen and considered the proofs of all those who count themselves master and inventors of instruments of war, and finding that their invention and use of the said instruments does not differ in any respect from those in common practice, I am emboldened without prejudice to anyone else to put myself in communication with your Excellency, in order to acquaint you with my secrets, thereafter offering myself at your pleasure effectually to demonstrate at any convenient time all those matters which are in part briefly recorded below.

  • I have plans for bridges, very light and strong and suitable for carrying very easily.
  • When a place is besieged I know how to cut off water from the trenches, and how to construct an infinite number of scaling ladders and other instruments…
  • If because of the height of the embankment, and the strength of the place or its site, it should be impossible to reduce it by bombardment; I know methods of destroying any citadel or fortress, even if it is built on rock.
  • I have plans for making cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, with which to hurl small stones in the manner almost of hail.
  • And if it should happen that the engagement is at sea, I have plans for constructing many engines most suitable for attack or defence, and ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke.
  • Also I have ways of arriving at a certain fixed spot by caverns and secret winding passages made without any noise even though it may be necessary to pass underneath. . . a river.
  • Also I can make covered cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with artillery, and there is no company of men at arms so great as not to be broken by it. And behind these the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed and without any opposition.
  • Also, if need shall arise, I can make cannon, mortars, and light ordnance, of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use.
  • Where it is not possible to employ cannon, I can supply catapults, mangonels, traps, and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general issue. In short, as the variety of circumstances shall necessitate, I can supply an infinite number of different engines of attack and defence.
  • In time of peace I believe that I can give you as complete satisfaction as anyone else in architecture, in the construction of buildings both public and private, and in conducting water from one place to another.
  • Also I can execute sculpture in marble, bronze, or clay, and also painting, in which my work will stand comparison with that of anyone else whoever he may be.
  • Moreover, I would undertake the work of the bronze horse, which shall endure with immortal glory and eternal honour the auspicious memory of the Prince your father and of the illustrious house of Sforza.

And if any of the aforesaid things should seem impossible or impracticable to anyone, I offer myself as ready to make trial of them in your park or in whatever place shall please your Excellency, to whom I commend myself with all possible humility.

Leonardo da Vinci, 1482

Can you beat Leonardo?

Of course you don't need to be Leonardo da Vinci to work with us, but that doesn't mean we're easy. Here are some questions to ask yourself before you send in that C.V.

  • do I have a happy, friendly personality?
  • do I like talking to people?
  • am I enthusiastic?
  • do I like making stuff?
  • do I have strong design and/or technical skills
  • how would I make Semantic's work better than it is now?
    (answer this one carefully)

Of course the list is not exhaustive. If you are all these things and have a black-belt in Macromedia Flash, bring it on. It is no accident that the personality stuff is at the top of our list. Yes you'll need the technical skills, but the personality is a big deal for us.

If you think you fit the criteria email ialsomakecoffee@semantic.co.uk and let us know why.

Leonardo - self portrait

For Recruitment Agencies

All This is a special note for Recruitment Agencies... please please please leave us alone.

It's nothing personal, but before you waste your time, and ours, you should know that we will never be in the market for an Agency to find people for us... not ever!

We therefore request, with all possible respect, that you cease and desist with your calls, your gifts and your improbable 'I am just updating our records' pitch.

There are plenty of businesses out there that will greatly benefit from your skills.

Go in peace... but please... go!


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