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You find more information about the available positions here.
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29 Jun 11
Review of London CityFair 2011
Last week saw members of the Berlin Product Team travel to CityFair2011, in London, held at the Hilton Metropole and coordinated by ETOA – the European Tour Operators Association.
A drinks reception, held at The Orangery at Kensington Palace, saw us mingling with a range of guests and enjoying the beautiful surroundings (and delicious finger food!). A keynote speech by a BBC representative addressed the emerging importance of the role of cities in the world – by 2080, some 75% of the world’s population will live in cities! Some of us took the tour of Kensington Palace and learned about the role this plays in the history of the British Monarchy, and we met with a range of people attending the event.
The actual fair itself saw two conference rooms set up with approximately 150 tables, where tourism boards, hoteliers, tour operators and other people from the tourism industry were able to meet with and establish relationships, discuss potential ways to work together and build networks face to face. A lunch was provided, and during this time there was a panel of experts who discussed some of the challenges and opportunities of the tourism industry today. Following the lunch, a further full session of discussion and contracting took place, before a late night flight home to Berlin.
We really care about establishing face to face relationships – the internet serves to connect people, and it’s important to remember that the people it connects are real, with interests, passions and backgrounds that are diverse – just the same as meeting people in a real life, brick and mortar setting. We look at events like CityFair as a great opportunity to meet with people from around the world, and develop relationships that aren’t held together by pixels and bandwidth!
01 Mar 11
Company Culture at GetYourGuide Berlin
Two month in to our adventure “Berlin Office” we are really, really happy with how things have developed here for us. First and foremost we now have a dedicated customer support team working only on providing top notch German and English support in writing and on the phone.
That frees a lot of resources which we can now put to work on the supplier side and into growing our office: we currently have 15 people working in our office and are still growing in the name of a better end user experience: better customer support, more products, improved response time etc. etc..
But let me talk about how we think a modern workplace should look like and what it looks like here in Berlin for our employees: Continue reading
03 Feb 11
How We Are Hiring Interns in Berlin
At GetYourGuide Berlin we’re about to build our ideal team to deal with the work ahead of us: online marketing, product management, copywriting and customer support. I have outlined this before, but I’d like to share how we’re going about finding the right people for our office.
In mid-January we began looking for English speaking people for our customer support team and we were very happy with the response we got from one of these “expat” sites below:
Resources for English speaking interns
Right now on the other hand, we’re looking for marketing interns (3 interns of whom 1 should be from an English-speaking background) and using all internship related sites we could find so far. As well as some marketing or creativity related platforms: Continue reading