Spikes Asia 2013 takes place in Singapore from 15 to 17 September to celebrate and inspire Asian creativity in advertising. Building on 26 years of the illustrious Spikes Awards, the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity is the result of a collaboration between Lions Festivals, organisers of Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx and Eurobest, and Haymarket, publishers of Campaign Asia Pacific. The Festival provides the region’s growing creative and advertising industry with a platform to network and exchange ideas, bringing together some of the finest creative thinkers from across the region and around the world. Spikes Asia, attended by over 1,800 delegates in 2012, offers a challenging programme of seminars and workshops focusing on creativity and learning, exhibitions of creative work from Asia-Pacific, networking events and the Spikes Asia award show. We are committed to attracting, retaining and developing the most talented people that work within the industry. This means we are focused on supporting and enabling our people to achieve their potential and career ambitions, and to share in our success. Even as an Intern, you are exposed to real world problems and are given the responsibilities and resources to tackle them head-on.
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The person will be working closely with the Awards Manager and Festival Managers and be highly involved in the following aspects of the business: • Telesales This role does not involve hard selling, but instead you will be developing and continuing a existing relationship with contacts, informing them of new initiatives within the awards and encouraging them to begin the entry process as the deadline approaches. At the same time you will be able to answer questions about the entry process and offer deadline extensions where applicable or necessary. • Processing of entry materials for the Awards The Role also includes processing of entry material received to the Awards. This includes receiving advertising boards and other supporting material including CDs and DVDs, referencing them and keeping a close control of the organisation of the material which will be judged for the competition. • Involvement in the Festival
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Students from the field of Mass Communications/Media/Design Studies may apply. We are looking for an independent individual with a drive to make things work, especially individual with the following qualities: • Highly interested in the creative industry • Highly communicative and pleasant personality • Adept in MS office • Self-motivated individual with initiative who enjoys working within a team-oriented environment • Individual must be able to work long hours nearer to the Festival dates
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