You’ve stuck with me through job applications, jobs rejections, actual jobs and temp work so it seems like you deserve a read of this. As promised, here is my application for my dream job, a Social Media Internship out in Asia with Ogilvy PR.

While I was writing this and since I’ve sent it off I’ve been reading through all the pages on what Ogilvy and Thomas Crampton do.  I said to Baines, “These people must be big, they’ve worked with the Smurfs.“  When I said that this afternoon it was a flippant comment, now it’s starting to sink in how big they are.

As this is a social networking job I’ve started following Thomas Crampton on various social networking sites.  On my LinkedIn profile I class myself as a journalist based on a year’s worth of a journalism degree, an NCTJ Law qualification and a handful of articles published in the local press.  Then I looked at Thomas Crampton’s about page, feeling a little humbled right about now.

Hi Thomas,

Two of the key things I love in life are travelling and meeting new people.  Last year I spent the most amazing summer of my life backpacking around Asia with four friends from university.

Starting off in Shanghai, we headed across China and into Tibet before flying to Hong Kong.  Along the way I walked part of the Great Wall, admired the terracotta army, travelled to Everest Base Camp and saw the world’s largest seated Buddha statue carved into a mountainside.

For six weeks Lonely Planet China was my Bible and this along with the help of the locals allowed me to learn a lot about the culture.  My friend took thousands of pictures and I documented the trip by selecting and captioning the best ones in Facebook albums.

Since I returned from Asia, social media has allowed me to keep in touch with a lot of the people that I met along the way and has helped to improve my life in the UK, this very job was recommended to me by one of my followers on Twitter.

I joined Twitter back in February and since then have amassed over 150 followers, making me the seventh most popular Twitterer in my area.  In this time I have experimented with a wide variety of Twitter clients, favouring TweetDeck for Windows and Gwipper for Ubuntu (TweetDeck still seems to be having teething issues with 64 bit Ubuntu and Gwipper gives me the option to add additional micro-blogging sites).

I tweet each of my blog posts with the hashtag #scribblog and it is for this reason that my  favourite short URL service is ow.ly.  I can use ow.ly in conjunction with Hootsuite to monitor my stats and see which links are the most popular.  Hootsuite is also used by friends at my local newspaper to manage multiple accounts and has proven to be very useful.

My blog www.scribbleboy.co.uk is a record my life and my attempts to complete challenges as suggested by readers.  I update the blog regularly and spend a lot of time playing around with WordPress plugins, trying to get them to both work properly and be standards compliant.

Alongside my passion for social media and blogging I also have a set of well developed traditional communication skills.  I currently work with Totem Films, a media production company, as  a freelance writer.  I work in a office environment and spend a lot of time approaching potential clients via email.  I am also responsible for drafting any necessary press releases and most recently have written a short piece for The Main Event (the industry magazine for event organisers) about what companies need to consider when commissioning a promotional video of their event.

I am currently based in the UK but would love to move.  I have attached a copy of my CV to showcase some of my more traditional skills and have listed all my contact details below.  I look forward to hearing from you soon,