Careers in Planet Course

Planet Course is a Online Language Course Reservation Agency that gives its users a wide variety of information on language courses worldwide and the opportunity to book a course including accommodation and transfer, generating a significant value for all cooperating schools. We are committed to promoting high quality language courses.

We are looking for innovative and creative professionals eager to grow with us. We seek long term relationships. We know that our team makes us different. That is why our organization has a flat structure that promotes open and ongoing dialogue, as total bet for each team member. In Planet Course training and career growth are guaranteed.

Please find below the jobs available at the moment.


Internet Marketing Internship

Location: Dublin City Centre, Ireland
Application Deadline: August 1, 2010
Positions: 3 Part-Time, Unpaid
Industry: Language Travel.

Description: Would you like to learn and gain experience by helping us grow our business world wide?
Planet Course seeks enthusiastic, organized and global minded interns to help international students finding the language course abroad that suits their needs. Candidate must have an outgoing personality, love to write, be creative, be responsible, organized, and know how to manage their time.

Intern will leave internship with a sense of the travel industry and with a general knowledge of internet marketing, including how to blog, optimize pages, social media, email marketing, SEO etc.

Benefits for Interns:

1. Get our foot in the door (experience, contacts, and potential future jobs)
2. Participate in the evolution of PlanetCourse
4. Develop team working skills and get intercultural experience
5. Familiarized yourself with entrepreneurial skills
6. Learn career-related skills such as internet marketing, report writing, dealing with customers...
7. Promote understanding among people from different countries
8. Learn about Internet Marketing, SEO and preparing Marketing materials, Press Release, Case Studies

Responsibilities:

You will promote the company, distribute targeted content in different languages, recruit students, engage fans, update platforms (website, blogs, social network profiles including Wiki, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), establish and manage partnerships (schools, education agents, sponsors). You will implement internet marketing strategies, help create promotions, company marketing materials and improve website.
Work approximately 10-40 flexible hours a week in Dublin City Centre, Ireland.

Requirements:

1. Must love the Internet
2. Reliable, mature and good communications skills in English and at least one other language (Spanish, Italian, German or French)
3. Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone, over the Internet and in writing with individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
4. Knowledge of html, css, image editing programs (fireworks) desired.
5. Ability to work effectively as an individual with minimal supervision and as a part of a team, and or take the initiative for coordination of activities and projects.
6. Ability to assess and evaluate interactions from an intercultural perspective, using practices of the field of international education.
7. Experience with social networks, forums, and search engines to collect or distribute information.
8. Demonstrated skill in exercising patience, diplomacy and flexibility in interacting with students.

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV to info@planetcourse.com