Job at Spurs

[benny]

I wonder if this ad is connected to the latest post from 'obvious Spurs social media' guy, popping up to say N'Jie in 10..

10 mins before he posted it on Spurs' social media.

I wondered this too!

 

[shelfmonkey]

Salary
Unspecified

Levy: So what salary would you expect to earn?

Candidate: I feel with my experience and the demands of the job that £100k would be a fair reflection of my role in the club.

Levy: £100k! What do you want £50k for?

Or;

SALARY
Unspecified

Levy: So, what is the circumference of your sphincter?

Candidate: Errr?!!! I'm not sure!!

Levy: Well find out!! If it's any more than 3 inches, then you're no use to me.

NEXT!!

 

[TaoistMonkey]

I'm going to tweet my application to them over 2,154,547 tweets.

 

[Styopa]

I'm not qualified for the role but I'm applying just in case we need to go for cheaper, backup option at the last minute.

 

[Real_madyidd]

@Houdini tunnel cam suggestion?

 

[Houdini]

I applied for the job...a job i have no idea about, but then i work in Dentistry and sometimes, only occasionaly, i rip out a piece of tongue or inner cheek!





When i say Dentistry...



I mean



I lie.

 

[Houdini]

@Houdini tunnel cam suggestion?

We need to do things differently, forget the on pitch huddle... we should be slapping each other around the face and why not bring back the King Flick..yep... the knob, the arse cheeks, the ear lobe, flick them fuckers...that will keep everyone awake and on their toes!

We need to take a mature look at these changes.

 

[dave5150]

I wonder if this ad is connected to the latest post from 'obvious Spurs social media' guy, popping up to say N'Jie in 10..

10 mins before he posted it on Spurs' social media.

I wondered this too!

Sure that job was on the OS (http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/jobs/) early last week when I last looked so unlikely - unless he was a temp and thus didn't care about posting here!

 

[dave5150]

For anyone in sales, I saw this one earlier that isn't on the OS:
http://www.sportsrecruitment.com/jobs/details/1680/senior-sales-executive

 

[quackers]

https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/artic...-football-social-media?utm_source=VStwitteruk

interesting

"There's no routine, it's constant. I'd try to get in about half eight to nine in the morning, and then the players would all start to appear at different times after that. Midweek games would be the same, you'd just work all the way through until the post-match was done. But social is just that, it's an addictive field, and you have to be committed to the industry."

Roberto Kusabbi, pictured above with André Villas-Boas, was the social media manager at Tottenham Hotspur for just over a year, a time in which he was given access to backstage areas of the game that very people are permitted to. Having worked in sports science and talent identification beforehand, he knew what to expect from football, but that didn't mean his time in the game was all plain sailing.

On his first day covering a home Premier League fixture in the role, Tottenham surrendered a one goal advantage late on against a West Brom side they were expected to beat. It wasn't long before a crudely photoshopped tweet began doing the rounds.

"This is funny now... but it wasn't at the time!" he laughs. "I'd already worked in social for five years by this point, but this was my first home league game. It was Villas-Boas' first game at home too, so the buzz inside the club was amazing and there was a lot of pressure on the club from all angles."

The game had gone to plan for the most part, both on and off the field. Tottenham looked well set to see out a narrow victory, only to fall short in the final minutes.

"So I put the full-time tweet out. Obviously anyone with photoshop can do [the above] and I started getting lots of concerned texts and tweets from friends, because this thing started being shared around quite a bit. As soon as I saw it, it was obvious that it was a fake, but I remember sending an email to one of my directors to explain. But the club were fine with it."

Stepping into a role in the most heavily marketed league in the world and trying to grow various social media channels just as the medium was just starting to take off, the photoshop was far from an ideal start to the job.

"I went out for dinner later on that day and the whole thing pretty much ruined my night. More than anything, it was really annoying, because it was so obviously fake. I learnt a lot around that time though, and once you've worked in football, you can just about work anywhere".

That, in short, is the life of a football social media manager. Amplified by the tribal nature of the game, you need an incredibly thick skin to be on the receiving end of some of those tweets and comments. Go now, actually, and click on the last tweet sent by any Premier League club you want and read through the replies. Chances are, you've just scrolled through enough profanity to script a new series of The Thick Of It —and that's far from abnormal.

Roberto described the experience as "like working in a newsroom", something he'd done before getting into social media. The trouble was, he said, that everything they wanted to do was entirely results dependent. Scheduled, created content could get burnt solely on whether or not the club won or lost, with fan reaction the main concern. Speaking to one of Roberto's former colleagues, the sentiment was shared.

"There was a game I remember around Halloween — after we'd put in several days' worth of effort to create a prank video that we had already edited and had ready to go — where one of the decisive penalties had fallen to Kyle Walker, who was central to that piece of content."

As the presenter SpursTV for almost two and a half years, Tim Love worked alongside Roberto during the same period at Tottenham, and shared many of his experiences.

"I remember just being sat in the stands watching him step up, praying that he scored, because I felt like we couldn't put the video out if he missed. And the sad thing is, it was only because I knew we'd just get absolutely rinsed by our own fans and anyone else wanting to take a pop if we did, but that's just the way it is".

It seems the reason so many clubs are bad at social, and the reason we get so much watered down content coming from them, is because those running the accounts are aware of just how much abuse can be created from one slightly misjudged piece of output. Having worked on the other side of the divide for BBC Sport before joining Spurs, it quickly became clear to Tim exactly why that was.

"When I was at BBC Sport I used to wonder why all you'd ever hear from players and clubs were such mundane things, but having seen the abuse they'd get otherwise and sharing their perspective, you get a better appreciation for it."

Roberto pointed more to the backward nature of brand identity in sport.

"I don't think bad social is exclusive to just football clubs, but they've got the reverse situation of most brands. Sports teams already had engaged fans in existence before their online presence was even created, whereas most brands start from scratch looking for an audience to sell to".

It wasn't, of course, all bad. Far from it, actually. Roberto seemed pleased with the experience both personally and professionally, while being quick to point out that "at the end of the day, travelling around watching football and being paid to do it is pretty fun." Tim remembered his first day at the training ground, and being taken over to meet Gareth Bale in the canteen. "It was like 'fucking hell', this is one of the best players on the planet, and here I am watching him eat his lunch'".

The nature of the game seems to have taken its toll, however, as both now work in completely different fields within social. Roberto has moved on to work with PlayStation in Europe, joining shortly before the PS4 launch, while Tim helps run things for Pizza Express across their various channels. When asked, Roberto said he'd consider working for a Premier League club again if the offer was right, while Tim suggested it wasn't something he'd be interested in revisiting any time soon.

Why leave football, then? Surely the trade off between working so closely with these athletes at the top of their game, watching them perform across Europe and being paid for the privilege cancels out the long hours and torrent of anonymous people calling you a **** online — right?

"After a few years, I just started to lose the love for the sport, which is ultimately why I moved out of the field" Tim told us. "You're lucky in that you're working in all of these amazing stadiums every week, but what's come out of it for me is that all I want to go to now are tiny grounds. I spend a lot of time at Wingate and Finchley, where there's only about a hundred fans or something, and it's far less sanitised than the Premier League experience, obviously. From what I understand, Roberto has dabbled with going to Leyton Orient now too, even though he's a Spurs fan".

In a job where your hard work being seen is reliant on Tottenham winning, it's no surprise that people don't tend to hang around for long. It provides a reminder though: the next time you see a football club post something that isn't to your taste, there isn't a vacuum through which your abuse will victimlessly vanish. There's a team of people monitoring it, doing their jobs as best they can, just like we all do.

 

[Lighty64]

On another job advert on the Spurs website, they are looking for a sales assistant in one of the club shops, but the check out the name of the guy you need to apply to!

Mr James Levy
Spurs Shop
6a Westgate Shopping Centre
Stevenage

Just coincidence or is it Daniel Levy's brother?

saw an add on shop window in Stevenage yesterday, but no little bald midgets running loose

 

[SlickMongoose]

In a job where your hard work being seen is reliant on Tottenham winning, it's no surprise that people don't tend to hang around for long.

Ouch!

 

[cliff jones]

No time to look at the specifics of the jd but is it the dm or cf role?

Other roles which seem to need filling include

International Fine Wine and Beer procurement - new stadium
Milton Keynes Travel Guide researcher
Golden Cock Polisher
Kyle Walkers orientation trainer
Erik Lamelas stunt double, or something sounding like that

Chairman with slightly longer arms.

 

[aliyid]

Not saying that we leave recruitment to the last minute but just had an interesting role pop up on my LinkedIn...

p.s. yes, I know this isn’t player recruitment

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

They have recruited a recruitment agency to recruit a recruitment manager? Couldn't they just recruit the recruitment manager of the recruitment agency?

 

[Lenny Leonard]

Saw that job yesterday, they’re massively underpaying in the market (who knew) and they’re probably paying a 20% recruitment fee as well which is madness.

 

[Lenny Leonard]

They have recruited a recruitment agency to recruit a recruitment manager? Couldn't they just recruit the recruitment manager of the recruitment agency?

The agency would still charge a fee as an introduction if they hired that guy. He also probably makes double what they’re paying

 

[cider spurs]

Or;

SALARY
Unspecified

Levy: So, what is the circumference of your sphincter?

Candidate: Errr?!!! I'm not sure!!

Levy: Well find out!! If it's any more than 3 inches, then you're no use to me.

NEXT!!

@Houdini tunnel cam suggestion?

You guys.