The Saatchi & Saatchi Summer Scholarship 2010 via Facebook

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If you have any desire to work in advertising and you haven’t heard of Saatchi & Saatchi I think it’s fair to say that you should consider an alternative career right about now.

Each summer, Saatchi & Saatchi offer up to ten graduates the opportunity of a place on their Summer Scholarship Programme. Graduates are given the chance to experience the industry first hand, and see for themselves exactly what is required for a career in a creative company. At the end of the programme, up to four of the grads may be offered a permanent role.
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This year they are going through the selection process via Facebook – which I find very interesting. All you had to do (fine it started in January) was join their Facebook group and take part in a series of challenges – the first of which was to create a group of your own and attract members.

Over the coming weeks we will be setting a series of briefs that have been specially designed to test the various skills and attributes you will need to work here. Each brief will be fun, but challenging – that’s the point. It’ll be a bit like The Apprentice meets Big Brother meets The Blair Witch Project. Actually scrub the Blair Witch bit.
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The group number over 6.000 members so no pressure.

I’m hoping they’ll come up with a report at the end about their experience.

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I read about it: Graduate recruiter employs social media by Sheli Rodney on CorpComms