Moaning Cabin staff could spell the end of British Airways!

As the British Airways strike gets underway I’m sitting here watching the news and wondering if the company will survive the actions of its own workforce.

We’ve just experienced the worst recession since the 1930’s and as a business owner who has recently had to go through the pain of loosing a business that I’d grown and nurtured for many years, I’ve now picked myself up, dusted myself down and started again.

What on earth do the cabin crew think they are going to achieve my carrying out this industrial action? Public opinion is not behind them and their actions could damage British Airways beyond repair.

British Airways needs to tighten it’s belt like any other business at the moment and the workforce need realise that. I’ve learnt some hard lessons due to this recession and one of them is that if you want to ride out turbulent economic times you need to make some hard decisions which wont be pleasant but need to done otherwise you’re up shit creek!

These whingeing, whining bastards should just be grateful that they’ve got a job! If it were up to me I’d just sack the bloody lot of them, and get some fresh new people in who would be glad of the opportunity to have a job!

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Latest jobs from Steve Cooper...

Wedding Co-ordinator
(Ref: 6231)
to £20k (depending on experience)
Hampshire
New & Urgent - This fabulous manor hotel is currently close to the completion of a £20 million re-development transforming the hotel and golf course in to one of the South East’s premier resorts.
Further developments includes luxury accommodation, new pro-shop, bars and restaurants, additional leisure facilities and improved conference and banqueting facilities for weddings and corporate functions.
Due to this exciting expansion of the resort the hotel are currently looking to recruit an experienced Wedding Co-ordinator with the drive and ambition to handle over 150 wedding sales. Your responsibility will be to drive all wedding business revenues inline with budgeted targets and to drive resort show rounds for all weddings and ensure the entire sales process from enquiry to booked event is converted inline with budgeted targets. You will be responsible for all client contracts and billing and you will be expected to attend all wedding fayres. You must be a proactive, highly organised and a confident individual with exception sales skills, commercial acumen and a full understanding KPI systems and targets. You will be responsible for managing wedding databases and all sales processes ensuring ratios for generating appointments and closing wedding business is achieved.
To apply for this exciting position you will need to have a proven sales background and experience in a hotel wedding/events sales environment, if this sounds like you email your CV now!
Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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Sales & Marketing Executive
(Ref: 6223)
From £25k (depending on experience)
Worcestershire/ West Midlands

New - This award winning live communication and video production company who work with a range of clients from large iconic brands to smaller local companies are looking to recruit a Sales & Marketing Executive. This role will help help grow business and build upon existing client base. The role is slightly Jekyll & Hyde – very process driven but yet brilliant with people too. The job role will include: Working directly with our MD you will be involved in planning & executing the new business strategy and marketing plan. Maintaining the CRM database Contacting prospective clients to promote the company. Where appropriate make appointments for our Managing Director to meet up with the prospect. Managing the production and distribution of marketing materials, our web strategy and our e marketing plans. Putting together presentations to prospective clients. Conducting research into prospective clients. Compiling paperwork for meetings. Some telesales work, however with bigger campaigns you would manage an external provider. Producing reports and working our CRM database. Manage and track our customer feedback after all jobs have been completed

Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as Word/PDFs

Designer/Artworker

(Ref: 6232)
Hampshire
To £25k
New & Urgent - An exciting position is available for an experienced Designer/Artworker within the studio of a multi award winning advertising agency based in Hampshire.

They are looking for a true all-rounder. A creative designer who is also happy to prepare files as print ready artwork. These may be new jobs to design and lay out, existing work that needs preparing for print or amendments to existing work. It will be in a variety of print media such as leaflets, ads, mailers, brochures, exhibition panels and monographs. Candidates will need to have experience and creative ability but also be meticulous and organised way so that work goes through strict approval processes and to print in a faultless manner. The skills required are with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress. This position will suit someone with design/advertising agency experience.
Please send yourCV with work samples to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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Junior Designer/Artworker
(Ref:6229)
Birmingham
3 month contract – to £16k pro rata
Urgent - Junior Designer/Artworker required on a 3 month contract basis initially who can help with artwork to start with then design on varied campaigns. You will be required to develop existing designs to artwork stage using CS4 with a level of creative design included. The client would want you to develop and design concepts of your own for presentation to clients and also come along to client meetings. If you’re a good creative all rounder with 1-2 years experience in a creative studio environment this could be right up your street.
Please send yourCV with work samples to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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Web developer
(Ref: 6221)
Birmingham City Centre
c26k
New - Based in a really cool workspace 3 storeys up in the buzz of New Street, Birmingham this small but perfectly formed Design Agency need to get a skilled Web Developer on board to get straight down to business on some exciting web projects. On the front end visual side you’ll definitely need CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and the back end dev side PHP (OOP/MVC framework experience a must) and MySQL There will also be significant use of WordPress, Drupal and phpBB.
Experience of the following would be an advantage but not essential: CodeIgnitor (Expression Engine preferable), jQuery, Prototype. Web APIs: Slideshare, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Delicious. Server management: Ubuntu, Apache. Tools: Coda, Adobe CS 3.
Please send CV with links to your online work to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

Latest Jobs from Steve Cooper December 2009

Supply Chain Analyst
(Ref: 6224)
Solihull , West Midlands
to £30k
New & Urgent - Our client is a global organisation rapidly growing in the UK who provide Supply Chain Planning expertise, tools and solutions that optimise and improve their clients operations. Their customers include many major UK retailers and international blue-chip clients in manufacture and distribution.
The position is a very exciting blend of technical expertise and working with real world business problems to help clients reduce costs and increase service to their customers. Rapid growth in the UK and Europe means that they require excellent people who have good analytical skills and be confident in a client facing position.
You will be involved both on site and in our clients Solihull office supporting clients and helping deliver solutions that improve the operation of their businesses. This involves using state-of-the-art software ranging from an operational ordering tool through to strategic inventory and network optimization tools.
The role will involve analysing client’s supply chain using specialist tools, identifying problems and helping devise solutions to those problems. Expert training will be provided in supply chain network design, inventory management, demand planning, Six Sigma and SCOR. This includes working with some of the best supply chain consultants in the country with decades of experience.
Good technical knowledge is key for this role and the ability to apply it practically to solving business problems. Knowledge of optimization methods such as linear programming, heuristics and statistics is desirable in understanding the inner workings of the software which helps with explaining results to clients. From a technical perspective, skills in MS Excel and MS Access are essential with any programming or SQL experience desirable. All applicants must have an EU Passport or a UK working visa and must have a car and a valid driver’s license.
Please send CV to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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Web developer
(Ref: 6221)
Birmingham City Centre
c26k
New & Urgent - Based in a really cool workspace 3 storeys up in the buzz of New Street, Birmingham this small but perfectly formed Design Agency need to get a skilled Web Developer on board to get straight down to business on some exciting web projects. On the front end visual side you’ll definitely need CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and the back end dev side PHP (OOP/MVC framework experience a must) and MySQL There will also be significant use of WordPress, Drupal and phpBB.
Experience of the following would be an advantage but not essential: CodeIgnitor (Expression Engine preferable), jQuery, Prototype. Web APIs: Slideshare, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Delicious. Server management: Ubuntu, Apache. Tools: Coda, Adobe CS 3.
Please send CV with links to your online work to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

Latest Jobs from Steve Cooper...

Creative Director
(Ref: 6220)
£30-35k
Worcestershire
New & Urgent - This Worcestershire based agency is a fusion of a graphic design and a corporate publications agency. Their work ranges from traditional marketing campaigns for SMEs to pioneering digital comms for big name companies They specialise in designing high quality magazines, newsletters and employee publications, many for blue chip organisations. You’ll need to be a highly experienced senior creative or creative director who has both traditional and Mac based design skills and you’ll also need to demonstrate a keen interest in, and knowledge of, digital solutions. Are you the ambitious, inspirational, outrageously creative, project focused and quality obsessed team leader my client is looking for? – If so get your CV and work samples over to me asap!
Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as PDFs plus examples of your work.

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Senior Designer – 12 months maternity cover
(Ref: 6219)
£neg
Worcestershire
New & Urgent - An experienced designer is required with a particular strength in publications for a 12 months maternity cover position. You’ll need to be creative with an eye for detail and able to work with pace, flair and passion. This Worcestershire based agency is a fusion of a graphic design and a corporate publications agency. Their work ranges from traditional marketing campaigns for SMEs to pioneering digital comms for big name companies They specialise in designing high quality magazines, newsletters and employee publications, many for blue chip organisations. For this role you’ll need proven experience of creative work on high quality internal comms, newsletters and employee magazines. Top notch Mac skills in CS3 and Quark will be essential. If this sounds like you get your CV and work samples over to me asap!
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as PDFs plus examples of your work.

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Photography Manager
(Ref: 6217)
Birmingham
£20-23k - according to experience (F/T) + bonus

New - This leading makeover photography studio with big plans for expansion require an enthusiastic, dynamic individual to manage their Birmingham photography department. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and creative individual to further develop their commercial and managerial skill sets.

The successful applicant will be responsible for administration, staff performance analysis and management, reporting, equipment maintenance and motivating a team of photographers to carry forward the creative direction of the photography department. The role will report directly to the Head of Photography.

The successful applicant will preferably have people management experience and an excellent working knowledge of digital photography with a strong portraiture portfolio. You will have excellent administrative experience including working knowledge of Excel and other IT skills. You will be highly organised, proactive, have excellent communication skills and be capable of following instruction in addition to using initiative.

Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as PDFs plus examples of your photography.

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Digital Press Operator
(Ref: 6218)
Telford
£17-20k
New - This In-house design and print studio are looking for a full time Digital Print Operator to work within their Telford offices. You’ll need good digital press experience, preferably on a Xerox 5252 which they have at the moment but are changing to a Xerox 700 soon.
Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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Creative Web Designer
(Ref: 6216)
Worcestershire
c£25k
This design agency is looking to recruit a proven Creative Web Designer. Based in near Redditch this small but busy design agency are getting busy in the digital area so you’ll need top notch skills with the full CS3/4 suite including Flash and Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS and knowledge of development/coding using PHP or .NET. If you have a portfolio of creative websites and proven industry experience please send your CV and links to your work.
Please send CV’s to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as PDFs plus links to your online work

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Creative Designer
(Ref: 6215)
Shropshire to£25k
New - Creative Designer required for this in-house studio based in Telford, Shropshire. You'll need to be skilled in CS3 or 4 and have experience of working in an agency or in-house design studio working on brochure and printed material. If this sounds like you send CV and design examples to:
steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk
Please send CVs via email as PDFs

Talented Copywriter

I've just interviewed an excellent Junior Copywriter who is available for freelance and permanent roles in the Midlands and Warwickshire.

If you'd like to see a full CV for this candidate contact: steve@stevecooper-crs.co.uk

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