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The Great Interactive Resorts Pizza Hustle

By Niall | Published: January 25, 2011

At Interactive Resorts, we’re not just focused on last minute ski holidays and catered ski chalets. We also love pizza, especially down in our IT department (AKA the dungeon). Recently myself and Phil were given the job of dealing with/haggling with/hustling some recruitment companies to get some candidates. Everyone likes a good hustle- especially a London recruitment company.

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Web Developer Job, London £25k-32k

By Niall | Published: January 5, 2011

Edit: Wooohooo! This london web-developer job post has been filled. We’re excited to have some new additions to the Interactive Resorts tech team.

Salary:1p an Hour
Location Fulham, London
Contract Permanent
Sector IT Services

Web Developer £25-32k dependant on experience.

Recognised as an Industry leader InteractiveResorts.co.uk, is a leading UK Ski travel company seeking an experienced in-house web-developer. The candidate will be confident and experienced coding with web-development, scripting and hacking CMS’s (e.g. Wordpress, Joomla etc), as well as competent with databases (SQL) and production of standards-compliant web-sites.
The role will be focused on developing and maintaining the company front-end web-sites / systems and developing custom software tools as required. This role requires a confident, experienced and well-rounded software developer who is comfortable working on multiple projects, self-organised, competent at time-management, ready to hit the ground running and up for a new challenge.
Main skills:

  • experienced and confident with PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, XHTML, Wordpress, Databases.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills are a pre-requisite.
  • Able to work alone or as part of a team.
  • An effective team-player who is a self starter with a can do attitude and a passion for coding and providing technical solutions.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills (essential for reporting to stakeholders, product owners)
  • Practical hands-on experience in online web-development with a foundation in computing (a Computer Science or Software Engineering type degree desirable).

Interested? To apply [edit:Don't apply - job has been filled!] , please forward your CV and where applicable, links to samples of your work to us.

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Lead Web Developer Job London, £40K

By Niall | Published: January 5, 2011

Edit: Wooohooo! This job post has been filled. We’re excited to have some new additions to the Interactive Resorts tech team for 2011!

Salary: One Billion Dollars.
Location Fulham, London
Contract Permanent
Sector IT Services

Asp.Net / PHP / SQL Server – Web Developer £40k London, Fulham

Recognised as an Industry leader InteractiveResorts.co.uk, a leading UK Ski travel company seeks an experienced developer to lead technical development. The candidate will be confident and experienced using CMS’s, ASP.net, PHP, databases (MSSQL and MySQL) and web-development in general. The role will be focused on developing and maintaining the company backend systems as well as front-end consumer facing web-sites. This role requires a confident, experienced lead web developer who is comfortable working on multiple projects, is self-organised,competent at time-management and ready to hit the ground running.

Job Requirements:

  • Good knowledge of the following technologies: XHTML, PHP, JavaScript, ASP.NET, . NET (3.0 / 3.5), XML/XSLT, TSQL, SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Reporting Services
  • Exposure to content management systems (e.g. WordPress, Joomla) would be desirable.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills are a pre-requisite.
  • Able to work alone or as part of a team.
  • An effective team-player who is a self starter with a can do attitude and a passion for coding and providing technical solutions.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills (essential for reporting to stakeholders, product owners)
  • Exposure to full project life cycle, with knowledge of development methodologies
  • Practical hands-on experience, with a good Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar degree highly beneficial.

Interested? Sorry, It’s too late to apply because we just filled this vacancy!

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Family Skiing Holiday Part II – Useful Tips

By Niall | Published: April 15, 2010

Continuing on from Rupert’s family ski holiday in Alpe d’Huez, we’ve put together a series of useful tips to help you make the most of yours.

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Our Family Ski Holiday

By Niall | Published: April 15, 2010

This year, our family ski holiday consisted of a group of 9 adults and 7 children aged from 2 to 7 years old. The party contained three non-skiing adults (Grandma and Aunties!) who, between them, acted as ‘nannies’ - looking after the kids when they weren’t skiing and giving the chance for the skiing adults to occasionally enjoy some ‘kid-free’ runs. Our skiing abilities were mixed; the adults’ ability ranged from beginners through to advanced, the younger members had either never skied or had up to 4 weeks’ skiing under their belts.

With this in mind we were looking for somewhere offering good facilities and activities, both in the chalet and in the resort, that the non-skiers could enjoy too.  Read More »

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Skiing in Chamonix

By Niall | Published: March 10, 2010

Chamonix. The name itself rings all the superlatives; the highest lift, the longest off-piste run and the most awe inspiring views the Alps have to offer. A Mecca too for the extreme off-pisters…but is this all this resort can offer? I think not; I think this is a ‘must –ski’ place for most, for a good number of reasons.

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17 days to go before Interactive Resorts ambulance sets off.

By Niall | Published: June 25, 2009

17 days to go before the Interactive Resorts sponsored Land Rover ambulance sets off for Mongolia!

Ross Dolton (Interactive Resorts) and Matt Greene (Chef) are the Mongol Response team who have converted a 4×4 into an ambulance and are driving it 10,000 miles to donate it to a local community in Mongolia. Read More »

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Is it worth booking your 2009 / 2010 catered chalet holiday early?

By Niall | Published: May 22, 2009

Chalet exteriorBased on last seasons last minute deals, I would have said no as there were some great bargains to be had… but is it going to be different next season? The answer is YES. If you want to find the best chalet option with the most convenient flights for the group, you need to get it booked early.

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