PR and media section
Media contact
Houdini Media sites have won many awards and often feature in the national press. We are always happy to provide material, comment and assistance to journalists. Steph Middleton (steph@seasonworkers.com or call 07515 738605) is the point of contact for any media enquiry, whether it’s for comment on an industry issue or to find a feature case study of a married couple who met during a ski season or on a gap year. With a ski season under her belt and a few air miles to boot, as well as over eight years’ consultancy experience, Steph is Houdini’s PR and communications manager.
The team at Houdini Media Ltd is behind the UK’s leading all-round recruitment website for seasonal and gap year opportunities: seasonworkers.com
Since launching in 2001, seasonworkers.com has firmly established itself as the leading online jobs bulletin for summer, winter gap year employment and now generates over two million page views per month. Its sister site, igapyear.com, feeds into seasonworkers.com ongap yearsearches and between them, the sites are accessed by nearly2 ½ million jobseekers every year. What makes Houdini Media’s sites particularly unique is the ability for visitors to download and file each company’s application forms instantly, without the need to print out, post or complete multiple forms. This, plus the fact that the sites integrate recruitment advertising with switched-on and informativecontent on the ‘business’ of travelling or working abroad, has meant that 16,500 jobseekers have already joined the online community, with a further 300 people signing up every week.
More than just an advertising platform; seasonworkers.com and igapyear.com have therefore become a ‘hub’ for people to seek independentand reasoned advice on working a season or gap year and contain many first-hand reports and recommendations as well as help guides, location reviews and discussion forums.When an employer joins the service they benefit from not only an award winning service but also the opportunity to plug in to and interact with prospective candidates.