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We are excited to announce the Skyscanner virtual experience programme launched on Forage! So what is a virtual experience programme? It's a unique opportunity for you to take on practical tasks similar to what our own Skyscanner engineers would work on and get a true feel of what it’s like to work here as a front-end, back-end, mobile, and product engineer. This virtual experience programme is free for students and once completed, you’ll earn a personalised completion certificate to share with prospective employers and your professional network. Find out more here - https://lnkd.in/efY8BHMz
Laurence Tracol is Chief Financial Officer at travel site and app Skyscanner. Laurence was born and raised in France, where she gained her accounting and finance qualifications including an MBA completed at HEC Paris. Laurence leads Skyscanner's global finance organisation and has over 25 years of e-commerce and tech experience in Europe and Silicon Valley, most recently at eBay. Her focus is on positioning Skyscanner for strong growth and continued business momentum at scale. In this podcast about Laurence speaks the challenges a #CFO faces when it comes to the new ways of working, working culture and the outlook for the travel industry ✈️. Read what she has to say in the link.
With a new year on the way, our Horizons report has crunched the numbers for 2023 and found 82% of travellers are planning to take more or the same number of trips abroad in 2023 compared to 2022, with nearly half (45%) planning to take more 🛫 Find more 2023 travel insights in our latest report - https://lnkd.in/eZPqY3Vj
The Slack channels of Skyscanner were abuzz this morning when we found out that we'd won Best Digital Accessibility Mission at last night's Contentsquare CX Awards. The team represented by Heather Hepburn, Nensi Dosari, Sean Telford and Princess Stevenson CMgr MCMI picked up the gong for what has been a gigantic team effort in working towards making Skyscanner a flagship of inclusion, our products accessible to all and travel easier for people with disabilities. She also won't thank us for this, but we know the whole Skyscanner team is super proud of the work that Heather has led on here. Making our product as accessible as possible has been her passion project for many years and we're so proud to see her rewarded for this externally.
If we're honest with ourselves, our old values were maybe a little long-winded. We wanted to make them super memorable and even easier to understand for our people across our global offices. So today, over breakfast butties and coffee, we launched our simplified Skyscanner Values. Five values we pledge to live by as a company, that reflect our special culture and guide our decision making.
At Skyscanner, we are hiring all over the world. We're hiring Engineers, Marketeers, Pioneers and other roles that don't end with eer. Find out more... heer - www.skyscanner.net/jobs
One of the benefits we offer here at Skyscanner is a five week paid sabbatical after you’ve worked here for five years. Which begs the question...
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