If you’re an adult in the UK, chances are you’ve heard of Sky media before.
In fact, there’s a pretty high chance you’ve actually got some sort of Sky subscription set up in your home, with the company claiming in 2010 that its reach entered 36% of households in the UK.
In many ways, the company has revolutionised British culture.
Perhaps the way in which it’s most significantly done this is with its entry into British Premier League football in the early 1990s.
Whilst many Brits will still talk proudly of the sport even before this time, it is now widely accepted that it was surrounded by a culture of racism, hooliganism and violence.
Since the Premier League has been shown as part of some of Sky’s subscription packages.
The sport has greatly cleaned up its act and whilst still far from perfect has evolved into a much more accessible and far less prickly pastime for millions of Brits to take an interest in.
There is no doubt that Sky’s media machine played a crucial part in this evolution over the last thirty years.
As of 2018, Sky UK is owned by the American international telecommunications conglomerate, COMCAST, which is the world’s largest Pay-TV and Cable TV company.
Sky UK stands on its own as an impressive organisation, however.
Whilst Rupert Murdoch isn’t a man without controversy, he is undoubtedly one of the great entrepreneurs of modern times and in the time since he founded Sky in 1990.
It has set itself as a benchmark for innovation in the British landscape that has changed consumer culture in Britain.
As a company of such scope and ambition, getting a job with Sky can mean a whole different range of things, depending on what your skill set is or what you’re hoping to achieve or learn through work.
As of writing, their website currently has 774 live roles which are open for applications.
These vary in location, salary and expectations hugely.
Here are just three of the postings that are currently open just to give a taste of how varied working at Sky can be.
European Product Development Manager – Isleworth – Average Salary £70k
“Aligning key stakeholders across Europe on our product & proposition roadmap to ensure full efficiency of development and launches ahead”
Data Engineer – London – Average Salary £41k
“Create and maintain an efficient data pipeline architecture focussed upon network data, including real-time and batch data sources.”
Sales Advisor – Dublin – Average Salary £27k
“Have great conversations to meet our customers’ needs, letting your personality shine.”
As you can see, working at Sky can take you to a great many places, both geographically and in terms of your career.
The website provides a search function that allows you to look through the hundreds of jobs available in one continuous list for you to scroll through if you wish.
If you have something more specific in mind, the search functions also allow you to whittle down the options by both title name and location.
Simple fill in either search box as desired and click the Let’s go button to find a refined selection of job openings.
The process for applying to most positions take you through a brief screening of process of just 3 fairly standard questions about your right to work in the UK and any employment history with Sky.
These are followed by the CV upload screen, which allows you to upload your own document you have saved or, very handily, import your profile data from LinkedIn.
This function is a great help to people with LinkedIn accounts who are on the hunt for a job and hopefully even more companies also incorporate it in their application process soon.
If you can’t upload or import a CV or profile, it’s possible to continue and fill out the remaining form manually.
However, if you’re on the hunt for a job, it’s highly recommended that one of the first things you do is create a CV for yourself from which you can speed up most application processes such as Sky’s.
It should only be a one-off task and this has the benefit of pooling many of your selling points and providing written text which will be close to answers that many application processes have questions for.
Allowing you to use the CV as a point of reference or extraction for marketing yourself during your application processes.
If you are going to proceed without a CV or LinkedIn profile, you’ll need to fill in some simple personal information and your work history.
After clicking Save and Continue you’re given the opportunity to add any desired attachments such as references which you believe may further aid your application.
The process is completed by clicking the Review and Submit button at which point you should get a message saying
“Process completed
Thank you for your online job submission. A member of the Recruitment Team will be in touch.”
This whole process is made extremely simple and effective by the company’s website and you should have your application off in no time at all.
Most listings don’t include a starting salary so if you’d prefer to have a look at the options available with a number attached, some of the listings can also be found on Indeed.com.
For the ‘What’ bar, you can just type in Sky if you want to get a feed of jobs posted by the company and some suggestions of similar job postings by other companies.
If you have an idea in mind of what type of role you’re interested in at Sky, this can be typed in alongside the company in the ‘What’ bar.
For example, you could put Sky data engineer in the ‘What’ bar and ‘Leicester’ in the ‘Where’ bar to find administrative roles for the company in Leicester.
Anything that fits these criteria should come up and in most cases will have been uploaded with a salary range.
Once you’ve found this you can go back to Sky’s website and resume the streamlined process to have your application sent off.