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Picdar

Working here

What the company said about itself to people thinking of joining it.

This is the recruitment page of the original Picdar site, kept as it was published. The vacancy service behind it had already been switched off when the page was captured, so what survives is the frame around it: the section headings, the invitation to apply and a paragraph of company background.

It is worth keeping for what the frame says. A British software company selling picture management to newspapers advertised in the early 2000s by describing where it was — St Albans — and what it had grown out of, and that is a fair reflection of how technical hiring in publishing worked before the job boards took it over. The page sold the town alongside the work.

The company no longer trades and there are no vacancies attached to this site. Nothing below is a current advertisement, the contact details on it belong to a business that has gone, and applications sent to them reach nobody. If you are looking for the editorial contact for this publication, it is on the contact page instead.

Read as a record, the page also dates itself in a useful way. The wording talks about picture desks and asset libraries as things a candidate would have to be taught, which is a reasonable indication of how narrow that skill set was at the time, and of why so many of the roles that now sit around a digital asset library were then filled from inside the newsroom rather than hired in.

Working here — illustration from the Picdar site as published in 2005

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Picdar background...

In the early 1980s, our expertise was built as a software developer of DAM systems for the military and police forces - demanding customers in every respect!
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