Mark Scott

Part of a global team to implement one global careers site - www.sage.com/company/careers

We recently invited ten students each from three leading northeast colleges [Gateshead, Sunderland and Newcastle] to spend a week in tombola as part of an innovative and interactive selection process. Even those students who were unsuccessful on this occasion gained a valuable insight and opportunity of work experience.

The hopeful applicants were challenged to design a new online game in just 4 days and then present this to tombola’s game developers on the final day. The game… Show more

We recently invited ten students each from three leading northeast colleges [Gateshead, Sunderland and Newcastle] to spend a week in tombola as part of an innovative and interactive selection process. Even those students who were unsuccessful on this occasion gained a valuable insight and opportunity of work experience.

The hopeful applicants were challenged to design a new online game in just 4 days and then present this to tombola’s game developers on the final day. The game development and final pitch process gave all candidates a unique opportunity to be a part of life at tombola.

The level of game design/development and presentation skills of the students we met was really impressive and wowed everyone at tombola. Given most of the students were just 18-21 years old, they were incredibly confident and the standard of what they produced was very high.

All applicants had completed a gaming or computing course with one of our partner colleges and already had a basic understanding of gaming and design. But they were selected to take part in our week-long selection process because of behavioural traits – how they think and what makes them different.

tombola is selecting students to begin their new degree apprenticeship programme, which will start in the summer. Depending on their chosen path of study, the students will spend the equivalent of one day per week at University of Sunderland studying and four days working at tombola. Most degree apprentices will study either Software Development, Security or Animation & Design.

The apprentices will complete their degree studies in 3 years and receive an attractive package from day one, which includes all university fees being paid by tombola, a generous starting salary, private gym and healthcare and free meals at tombola’s state of the art new HQ.
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Part of a team creating careers videos for multiple locations around the world.

Project managed the Apprenticeships@Sage scheme along with the UKI Recruitment Team where we successfully recruited 60 apprentices into the Newcastle and Manchester office. The apprentices joined the business in areas including Customer Service, Sales, L&D, Finance, Marketing, Administration, IT, Engineering and HR. This was the largest intake of apprentices ever seen at Sage, having previously only taken on 25 since 2012. We have also expanded the areas where we have apprentices from… Show more

Project managed the Apprenticeships@Sage scheme along with the UKI Recruitment Team where we successfully recruited 60 apprentices into the Newcastle and Manchester office. The apprentices joined the business in areas including Customer Service, Sales, L&D, Finance, Marketing, Administration, IT, Engineering and HR. This was the largest intake of apprentices ever seen at Sage, having previously only taken on 25 since 2012. We have also expanded the areas where we have apprentices from Administration, Customer Service, IT and Product Development to the ones listed above.
Because of the Apprenticeships@Sage Scheme we have increased brand awareness of the company across the UK by visiting local schools, TV/Radio campaigns, community work and other internal/external PR. Show less

Looking after a marketing budget for advertising in Newcastle Airport, Manchester tram interiors/exteriors & Manchester Piccadilly Train Station. This includes working with design teams, external suppliers and the Sage brand marketing team.