About Yell
You might know a lot about Yell, you might know very little. You might be an experienced professional or someone taking the first steps in their career. Whoever you are, we’d like to welcome you to SecondLife and put you in the picture about the unique combination of career opportunities, support and rewards that only Yell can offer.
Meet us in SecondLife and you can find out about our legendary training and development, extensive rewards and benefits, locations of our offices, the day-to-day work… in short everything you could possibly want to know about Yell. Come and talk to some of our team (who come from all sorts of different backgrounds and lifestyles) and find out why they enjoy being part of the Yell culture.
There are links to our latest vacancies too via www.yell-careers.com and more information on our group at www.yellgroup.com.
Yell is a leading international directories business operating in the classified advertising market in the United Kingdom, United States, Spain and Latin America.
One of the FTSE100 group of leading companies, our revenue in the 2007 financial year was more than £2 billion - £720 million generated in the UK where we have a widespread network of sales offices.
We aim to consistently meet the changing needs of our advertisers and users and to take advantage of new technologies and communication methods in the development of
world-class products and services. These are supported by our famous, award-winning advertising campaigns.
In the UK, our products and services are Yellow Pages – an acknowledged Superbrand - and Business Pages printed directories, our online advertising medium Yell.com and Yellow Pages 118 24 7, our telephone based information service.
Yell is recognised as an excellent UK employer and is one of only 33 organisations in the UK with Investors in People Champion status, acknowledging our approach to people management and the skills and abilities of our employees.
Our sales training is legendary and viewed as being amongst the best around. In fact, whatever stage you’re at in your career or specific field, we’ll be able to give you support and development opportunities that you need to be the very best.
Our pay structure and benefits are just as strong. Across the board we offer the sort of pay and benefits packages that attract and retain the very best. If that’s you, you should be working with Yell.
Our benefits
As you’d expect from a business like ours, the benefits on offer are pretty impressive. On top of an excellent basic salary and commission structure, our generous package includes:
- Company Pension
- Health Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Welfare services
- Discount Schemes
- Incentives
There are Yell rewards too - our own internal awards scheme that recognises people who go the extra mile. There is an array of recognition schemes, with the ultimate prize being all expenses paid weekends away with partners.
As if all that wasn’t enough there’s the chance to be part of one of the UK’s most vibrant, fast-moving businesses, where there’s a good work-life balance and the flexibility to manage your commitments through different working options too.
Training and development
Yell puts substantial investment into training and development. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why Yell UK is one of only 33 UK companies to be awarded Investors in People (IiP) ‘Champion‘ status. Champion status is awarded for three years to organisations that demonstrate outstanding promotion of the IiP values and principles. It’s a significant accolade that recognises our award-winning approach to people management and development.
Our excellent training programmes will help you develop and flourish, and us to deliver the kind of service that our customers have grown to expect. Thanks to regular performance appraisals this training, both on and off the job, will be tailored specifically to meet your needs and aspirations. And, as we both develop, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to learn new skills, take on new responsibilities and develop the career you’re looking for.
The roles
We have a clear focus on the needs and expectations of our customers and world-class products and services. As a fast paced, ambitious and lively business we’re serious about recognising and rewarding success. If you’ve got bright ideas we’ll positively encourage them. Whenever you need support, we’ll provide it. And, no matter how successful you want to be, you’ll find that we feel the same way.
Sales is one of our key functions and our sales training is acknowledged as being amongst the best around, making Yell hard to beat if you’re looking for a career in this field. If a role outside the sales profession is of interest, then we have an equally impressive range of opportunities from IT to Marketing, through Finance to Human Resources, backed by top-class training and development programmes.
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