Trish Murphy is Group Sales Manager at Hot Press which she joined in May 2010.
Company: I currently work for Hot Press, the bi-weekly magazine with an audited circulation of 19,387 and has been going for over 33 years. We also publish the Hot Press Yearbook which is known as the bible of the entertainment industry and Enterprise Magazine, the onboard magazine for the Belfast-Dublin Enterprise train and we also host the Music Show in the RDS every October.
http://www.hotpress.com
Job description: Responsible for the generation of revenue across all the titles and developing new relationships with clients.
Likes: I get to talk to interesting people all day long.
Career ladder: Following college, I joined Ulster Bank and worked in Human Resources for a number of years, then entered the recruitment world and worked for a number of different agencies. I then joined Whitespace Publishing Group in January 2004 and was Group Sales Director for a number of years with responsibility for such titles as Marketing Age, Irish Director, Owner Manager, www.siliconrepublic.com and business and technology titles in the Irish Independent.
Qualifications: Biochemistry!
Working hours: 8.30am until depending on whether we are going to press that week or not!
Breaktime: I’m back in town for the first time in years and too close to Grafton St shops for my bank’s liking and also catch up with friends for lunch.
Social media credentials: I catch up with friends on Facebook, use LinkedIn for work and haven’t got into Twitter yet!
News: I read The Irish Times.
Onsite or offsite: Both!
Why I love Mondays: As I said before – I love my job because I get to talk to interesting people all day long.
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