{"id":22,"date":"2013-01-25T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:32:21","slug":"im-need-to-gocompare-some-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/im-need-to-gocompare-some-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to Gocompare some jobs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In four and a half months and I&#8217;ll have officially left uni forever and I&#8217;ll be on the prowl for a job. The jobs market isn&#8217;t the best at the moment. However, the industry I&#8217;m looking to enter as a whole is expanding quite nicely, so in that sense I count myself lucky. Finding a job that I genuinely want to enter isn&#8217;t going to be easy, but I&#8217;m determined to start my career with a job I&#8217;m happy with. When I find a job I know I&#8217;ll love, I won&#8217;t stop until I get it.<\/p>\n<p>Some criteria I want out of a company I work for (in no order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good company culture. Approachable higher ups. Flatter corporate structure.<\/li>\n<li>Tech based.<\/li>\n<li>Good outlook for the company&#8217;s future. Growth trending. Good longer term prospects<\/li>\n<li>Relatively close to Cardiff (commutable by public transport or car)<\/li>\n<li>Positivity in the media, and the ability to say &#8216;I worked on that project!&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Good company size. Not necessarily too big or small (maybe smaller than &#8216;Barclays&#8217;, but bigger than &#8216;Corner shop&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>In an industry I can relate to, where I can genuinely feel that I believe in the product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s not that many companies that meet all of these criteria. The first I&#8217;ve found that actually does, is Gocompare. In particular, their media attention is generally positive (recently took a hit in the SERPS because of blackhat techniques &#8211; not a big deal). I would say the &#8220;negative attention&#8221; brought about by the Gio Campario advert wasn&#8217;t actually negative. Actually pretty cool&#8230; They&#8217;ve won consecutive awards for having &#8220;the most annoying TV advert&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also entirely tech based, and very close to Cardiff (only a half hour drive in the mornings!).<\/p>\n<p>Certainly good prospects in terms of the company&#8217;s future- CEO refers to it as &#8216;her baby&#8217;. Also Esure were looking to buy a bigger share ahead of their IPO. Seems like a nice future for the company as a whole, so hopefully that translates into a nice stable job.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t speak for the culture, but the company staff seem relatively young (LinkedIn seems to verify this claim, and the CEO is only 38).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus<\/strong>: Gocompare&#8217;s website design is pretty good in my opinion (though comparethemarket.com and confused.com aren&#8217;t exactly bad either). I like Gocompare&#8217;s color pallette and overall style. Most insurance comparison sites have a very homogenous layout, so I can&#8217;t really comment too much on that.<\/p>\n<p>So the company has been selected; I&#8217;m going to attempt to get a job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocompare.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gocompare<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This blog post is continued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/getting-a-job-at-gocompare-some-thoughts\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In four and a half months and I&#8217;ll have officially left uni forever and I&#8217;ll be on the prowl for a job. The jobs market isn&#8217;t the best at the moment. However, the industry I&#8217;m looking to enter as a whole is expanding quite nicely, so in that sense I count myself lucky. 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