Kirsty Darkins

Experience

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  Starfish Installations Ltd

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

  Marketing Apprentice

  At Starfish Installations Ltd, I was their marketing apprentice.I was responsible for maintaining their website and social media accounts, sending out mail merges, creating and emailing a company newsletter to existing customers weekly.My mission at Starfish Installations was to increase their brand awareness via social media where I increased their twitter followers and engagements by 110% in two weeks.In addition I organised campaigns, created the graphics and media such as designing graphics for a new fleet vehicle, and new leaflets and flyers.Page2I assisted with organising trade shows for summer 2015. I worked alongside GoGoDragons 2015 creating a campaign for their sponsored dragon and created social media accounts for the dragon where I created photo manipulations to give their sponsored dragon a personality and life through social media to raise awareness of GOGODragons and for Starfish Installations, which was ready for the start of GoGoDragons2015 trail. Within creating a brand awareness through social media this lead to a website traffic growth.I helped to create a marketing strategy for the year, and a social media plan. Show less

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  I4 Recruitment Ltd

  Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

  My responsibilities are to maintain the social media accounts, and website news. My mission with i4 was to raise awareness through social media.I created campaigns and competitions and work alongside external companies/charities such as Forever Manchester, and East Anglia's Children's Hospice (EACH). I completed my Certificate in Professional Marketing with Cambridge Marketing College, to develop my knowledge in marketing. I started at i4 Recruitment as a Marketing Apprentice, my responsibilities were to raise brand awareness through social media, and maintain the website news, where I would add news stories weekly to keep the website up-to-date. I would also create marketing campaigns, competitions and run Google ads to increase website traffic to i4 Recruitment.Here I learnt the recruitment sector and developed my marketing skills.

  • Marketing Executive

    Dec 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Marketing Apprentice

    Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
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  Intu Chapelfield

  Apr 2017 - Oct 2020

  Marketing Coordinator
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  Purecontent Media Limited

  Nov 2020 - Nov 2021

  Digital Marketing Manager
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  Social Sunflower

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2022

  Owner
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  SoCode Recruitment

  Nov 2021 - Feb 2025

  Marketing Manager
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  Little Acorn Photography

  Jul 2024 - now

  Photographer