Auto Trader UK

In the latest Career Stories video, we put Byron Roberts, Katie Jackson, and Rachael Jones on the spot and asked them to tell us about career progression at Auto Trader UK. Take a look at what they said. Link in the comments 🔗

Demi Daniels, Gabriella Johnson, Sadhbh Parle, and Sarah Morris attended the Naidex conference a few months ago. The conference is one of the UK’s most significant events dedicated to disability and independent living. It brings together professionals, experts, and individuals with disabilities to showcase the latest innovations, products, and services to improve accessibility, mobility, and quality of life for people with disabilities. 💜 They wanted to understand lived experiences better and learn from other companies working in accessibility, from road design to travel arrangements. 🚗 ✈ 🚂 Link in the comments 🔗

100,000 Carbon Literate Citizens! 🌍   As a partner of The Carbon Literacy Project, we're providing crucial backing to facilitate the necessary scale-up of Carbon Literacy training and the widespread action it triggers. 💚 We're celebrating this milestone moment and all the Auto Trader people who have helped us reach 100,000 learners. In just three years, around 5,000 automotive colleagues from nearly 250 businesses have been trained and certified as Carbon Literate through the Automotive Carbon Literacy Toolkit, and we're still going! Watch this space for where we're headed next… ⬆ Join the movement and become Carbon Literate today! Link in the comments

The importance of unlearning! 😎 This week on Roadmap, we feature the incredible Amelia Bampton from Equal Experts, a global tech consultancy. Amelia talks with Pete Farrell about her 20-year tech career, sharing her unique journey and the lessons she's had to unlearn along the way. They discuss transitioning from waterfall to agile methodologies, becoming working parents, and much more. Check out the episode below, link in the comments 🔗

In this week’s Learning and Development takeover, Heather Leonard and Peter Janicwicz emphasise the importance of focusing on development, starting with a Personal Development Plan (PDP) to facilitate meaningful growth discussions. We offer workshops on PDPs, Purpose, and Career planning. 🌱 They also highlight exploring opportunities and accessing resources, such as conferences, qualifications, and specialised workshops, to enhance skills and knowledge. 👩💻 Join us and discover how our L&D team supports your career growth. Head over to our careers site to check out our jobs. ❤️ Links in the comments 🔗

This week's episode of Roadmap is live! Join Rachael Poole as she chats with Demi Daniels, Katy Flynn, and Thomas Inman about their incredible journey building Deal Builder. Deal Builder is revolutionising buying, allowing consumers to do more online. 🛒✨ Discover the importance of feedback loops and the power of combining metrics with relationships, and find out if everything 'went to plan'! 📊🤝 Don't miss out - tune in now! 🎧

Meet Heather Leonard and Peter Janicwicz from our Learning and Development team 👋 The L&D team is taking over Career Stories for the next few weeks to discuss career development and highlight the opportunities and support available to our colleagues. In this short video, we meet the team members, learn what drives them, and discover why they love helping Auto Trader colleagues be the best they can be ❤️ Link in the comments 🔗

Have you ever been captivated by something new? That’s what happened to Mahmoud Oshagh, PhD, when he first encountered Large Language Models (LLMs) while preparing for his first data science role. His fascination grew with the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, a sentiment many data scientists share. Since then, Mahmoud has explored and applied LLMs through projects at Auto Trader. In this blog post, he explains an LLM and how it works and shares their experiments with Google’s LLM at Auto Trader. Link in the comments 🔗

We're excited to announce that our celebrity podcast, Show on the Road, is back for another series. We take the traditional celebrity podcast out of the studio and into a car for a road trip like no other. This series' first celeb guest, Roman Kemp, takes the passenger seat! He talks all things Capital FM, dealing with grief, and his football obsession. Join us as we take Roman to revisit the places that shaped him. Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode. Link in the comments 🔗

Last year, we introduced the option to work remotely during July and August, and it was such a success that we're bringing it back again this year! 😎 Starting today, all colleagues can enjoy the flexibility of working from home🏡 Check out how our team members made the most of remote working last year, from stunning outdoor setups to creative home office spaces. Link in the comments 🌿💻