Employment Opportunities
City Sightseeing incorporating Guide Friday
This is a world wide brand that majors on Open Top bus tours and we are licensed to use it within Oxford. Currently the brand is represented in all the major tourist cities and towns in the UK plus locations throughout the world in places as diverse as Sydney, Australia; Istanbul, Turkey; Paris, France; most major cities in Spain and a growing number in Italy.
Oxford Operations
Year round operation 7 days a week. The first tour of the day is at 0930hrs and the last varies with the seasons of the year however during the summer is 1800hrs and the depths of winter 1600hrs. The tours last one hour but passengers can hop on and hop off all day as the ticket is valid all day.
Tours
All our buses are full open top and have an easy to use multilingual commentary system the driver operates delivering up to 13 languages simultaneously, In addition the majority of buses also carry a live English speaking guide who makes a commentary at the same time in addition to the other languages.
Opportunities
Drivers
We have a mix of full time and casual as and when required positions. Our full time drivers are year round positions with the following features:
- Earliest starting time: 0830hrs
- Latest finish time: 2000hrs
- Start and finish location, Osney Mead, Oxford
- Guaranteed minimum hours during summer 40hrs
- Guaranteed minimum hours during winter 35hrs
- 20 days holiday each year
- Statutory sick pay
- Free issue uniform
- Bonus scheme
- Free travel on most City Sightseeing tour services World Wide. Free travel on Oxford Bus Company services (In uniform)
- Discounts on Tappins Coaches day tours and holidays
Guides
Join Oxford's leading year round sightseeing company. We are always looking for people who love Oxford and would like to tell people from all over the world about our famous historic city.
Whilst local knowledge is important, the secret ingredient we are looking for is an outgoing personality. If you have it, we can train you. Varying days and short or long times are available but due to the peak demands of our business, weekends are part of the rota.
Sales Staff
Outgoing sales orientated people required to sell our tours to tourists. These positions are normally outdoors at busy departure points. You would need to have some knowledge of our city but we can train you. Earliest start is 0930hrs and latest finish 1800hrs. Reporting point is our office at Oxford Rail Station. Good rates of pay plus generous sales bonuses.
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